The English composer completed his stormy and expressive concerto in 1919, in the aftermath of the devastation caused by the First World War. By this time, Elgar’s music – which was deeply connected ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Sympho ...

Sinfonia da Camera made its final appearance of the year at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts with a program of ...

there’s a final magnificent autumnal flourish with his Cello Concerto, String Quartet and Piano Quintet and then…nothing. After his wife’s death in 1920, Elgar lost the urge to create (he tried hard, ...

ELGAR Sea Pictures (c/w Symphonies 1 & 2; Enigma Variations; Cello Concerto; Chanson de nuit; Chanson de matin; Elegy for String Orchestra; Overture ‘Cockaigne’; Froissart; Contrasts from ...

Let’s not beat about the bush: it takes something to make Elgar’s Cello Concerto work on the viola, to make it convincing even in those moments where a transposition up into the viola’s higher ...