You can listen to extracts of some of Sir Edward Elgar's most famous works. The Elgar Trail is a circular route around the two counties taking in many of the Elgar landmarks. Some unusual facts about ...
Jerrold Northrop Moore, who has died aged 90, was an American academic who devoted much of his career to the British composer Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), sweeping up the biographical facts in the ...
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1923) is one of England’s greatest composers, best known for big works like his “Enigma Variations,” the violin and cello concertos, the oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” and, ...
IGOR MARKEVITCH: Cantique d’amour (1936). L’envol d’ Icare (Icarus’ Flight) (1932). Concerto Grosso (1936). Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra. Naxos 8.572153 ...
One of the pillars of the English choral tradition, Sir Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius,” returns to Seattle in time for Christmas. The 100-minute oratorio, one of Elgar’s supreme achievements, ...
Sir Edward Elgar, the Englishman who put English music back on the the international map early in the 20th century with his Enigma Variations, wrote his grand Violin Concerto in B-Minor in 1910. It ...
The Musicians’ Club gave a dinner last night in honour of Sir Frederick Cowen on the occasion of his 80th. birthday. Sir Edward Elgar, Sir London Ronald, Sir Hugh Allen, Lord Justice Greer and ...
One of Britain's greatest composers was a tourist who embarked on a now long-forgotten tour of Cornwall over a century ago. Sir Edward Elgar, who composed Land of Hope and Glory, was born in Worcester ...
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1923) is one of England’s greatest composers, best known for big works like his “Enigma Variations,” the violin and cello concertos, the oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” ...