Hearing such authentic Elgarian sounds from a Swedish orchestra under a Finnish conductor may surprise, but Sakari Oramo specialized in British music while leading the CBSO so you’d expect nothing ...

What do Max Bruch and Edward Elgar have in common? Violinist Rachel Barton Pine! In this episode, RBP talks about the two composers and their very different violin concertos. Discussed herein: Did ...

I love Bruckner’s mature symphonies, but they still baffle me. Mostly in terms of how certain performances work, or don’t work, and the near-impossibility of understanding and explaining exactly why.

Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...

Although several summer classical music series are underway, the regular season has not ended for some ensembles, including the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra, which will give two performances this ...

The “Enigma” Variations was written as a set of musical character sketches of Edward Elgar’s friends, with the first variation cast as a tender tribute to his wife and the finale as a rousing ...

Sheku Kanneh Mason's recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto reached No. 8 on the UK Album Chart; he was the first ever cellist to break into the Top 10. We'll enjoy that incredible performance during our ...

‘Nimrod’ from Elgar’s Enigma Variations has been crowned the greatest piece of British classical music in a Classic FM poll. Edward Elgar’s abiding melody ‘Nimrod’, from his 1899 Enigma Variations, ...

The notion of Sir Edward Elgar's music as provincially English is dealt a well-deserved blow with this CD. The conductor, Sir Colin Davis, is British, but violinist Nikolaj Znaider was born in Denmark ...

The LSO’s second concert of the season offered an eclectic programme of one of the great romantic piano concerti, sandwiched between works by two of the finest English composers of the last century.

But it has emerged that Sir Edward Elgar, the composer of Land of Hope and Glory, penned the world's first football chant. Titled "He Banged The Leather for Goal", the theme was written more than 100 ...