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Over the past few years Elgar’s symphonies have found favour again with conductors from beyond the UK, yielding some intriguing recordings. After Daniel Barenboim ’s mythic Elgar, and the visionary ...

The status of Edward Elgar as an outsider gave him strength and brought him suffering all his creative life. These two traits are reflected in his Symphony No. 1 – a dramatisation of the emotional ...

The Boston Philharmonic performed Schumann’s “Manfred Overture,” Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1—a symphony seldom included on orchestral programs outside Britain—for a full ...

When Edward Elgar unveiled his first symphony in 1908, it was hailed as the greatest British symphony ever written. The London papers were ecstatic. The Morning Post wrote, "This is a work for the ...

There's no knowing how sophisticated digital manipulation is going to get. Will the engineers of the future be able to marry or merge the rawness and grunt of Adrian Boult's 1977 BBC Proms performance ...

Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the enduring qualities of the English composer's first symphony. Elgar's Belated Symphony: Majestic, Noble And Perfectly British Elgar's Belated Symphony: Majestic, ...

Hot on the heels of the Germans – Barenboim’s Staatskapelle Berlin – the Italians now boldly go where they too can rarely, if ever, have been before. And, while Pappano is nothing if not dynamic and ...

There is no place for Edwardian pomposity in this performance. The conductor, Vasily Petrenko, brings his own brand of Russian authority to the music, clarifying textures, sharpening rhythms, pressing ...

Elgar's Symphony No 1, performed at the Proms tonight, was the one that put Britain's symphonic writing on the international map. Its conductor at the première in 1908, Hans Richter, went so far as to ...

Stephen Johnson explores a work which was ten years in the gestation, but worth waiting for - Elgar's Symphony No.1, which was an immediate and phenomenal success at its first performance in 1908.