The BBC Philharmonic perform one of the most well-known and much loved pieces in the British classical music canon, Sir ...

How the light tread of the music became a shamble can be imagined. Yet Newman himself did have an idea of what Elgar wanted: ‘Some of the colour is meant to be no more than a vague wash ...

Marking the 150th anniversary of Edward Elgar's birth in June this year, BBC Radio 3 present a series of special concert broadcasts.

With the unfathomable amount of classical music that is available to us ... of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar. The tradition of using this piece for commencement ...

The array of mastery in the four versions I have listed presents an extraordinary range of expressive imagination. Elgar's elusive and taxing concerto inspires the widest range of interpretation, and ...

Enjoy our live playlist, Romantic Classics on Global Player – one continuous stream of the most indulgent classical music ... ‘Salut d’amour’ was born from a poem written by Alice, Elgar’s wife. As a ...

The Victorian era saw a proliferation of classical music organisations, beginning with the Philharmonic Society ... Liverpool and Edinburgh established major orchestras. Edward Elgar was chief of a ...

Acclaimed conductor Mark Prescott’s inaugural season with the orchestra continues in fine style with a concert featuring three attractive pieces. Richard Strauss's early tone poem Don Juan is an ...

The history and politics of the 20th Century provided inspiration for the diverse range of musical styles developed between 1900 and 1999, pioneered by composers ranging from Elgar and Britten, to ...

I have often wondered why the music of Amy Beach is not more loudly acclaimed ... Dvořák, Stanford, Fauré, Sinding, Reger, Elgar, Suk and Dohnányi. ‘Ohlsson and the Takács are to be congratulated for ...