Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

Sterling Elliott triumphs over the Royal Albert Hall in this note-perfect rendition of the first and second movements of ...

Nikolaj Znaider has the good ­fortune to play an extraordinary violin – the 1741 Guarnerius del Gesu that once belonged to Fritz Kreisler – that ­Kreisler used for the premiere of the ­Elgar concerto, ...

Simon Rattle takes the concerto back to the 19th century and Renaud Capuçon’s partnership with Stephen Hough for the sonata is a meeting of equals The Violin Concerto is not only one of Elgar’s ...

The biggest repertoire draw here was meant to be Edward Elgar's glorious Cello Concerto, with Daniel Barenboim conducting, paired with two other works: Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto and Max Bruch's ...

British composer Edward Elgar wrote his cello concerto in 1919 — soon after the end of World War I — and it's suffused with the dark weight of that war. That in itself is noteworthy, because ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The appeal of a major romantic concerto to international violinists has lifted Elgar’s concerto out of the ...

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 ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. As the world ponders once again the great unanswered question - why? - in connection with the ...

These two releases illustrate the subtleties of what does and does not constitute an “idiomatic” Elgar performance. Such subtleties – expressed in matters of tempo, phrasing and emotional restraint – ...