What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

Edward Elgar said he learned to write for strings by listening to the music of Handel. Elgar based his Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra on Handel's concerto grosso ...

When: Next performance is “Schubert II: Soiree Musicale” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; festival continues through Aug. 24 Where: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La ...

On a sultry summer evening what music could fit the mood of quiet rapture better than dreamy Delius? He wrote his String Quartet at his home just south of Paris in the middle of the first world war ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...

The Goldner String Quartet judges the Elgar idiom persuasively, finding that blend of sensibility and muscularity, wistful meditation and optimistic motivation. The main works are the E minor String ...