Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

The much-loved Cello Concerto of Elgar and Martinů’s rarely played Cello Concerto No.1 might seem poles apart. The Elgar gets a heartfelt, sometimes portentous performance here from the impressive ...

Anna Clyne’s impressive new work is a cello concerto inspired by Persian poetry and outshining the familiar Elgar work in Inbal Segev’s performance Dance is Anna Clyne’s hugely impressive new cello ...

To some, it remains simply the greatest recording in the history of classical music. Its earliest reviewers instantly recognised what one of them called its "rarest magic." And still, more than 50 ...

Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.

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 ...

A performance full of finely realised detail and lacking in bombast ensures these two great and contrasting British cello concertos shine Two great British cello concertos, one extremely well known, ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Gabriel Schwabe, Cello Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Christopher Ward, Conductor Oration, 'Concerto elegiaco' Gabriel Schwabe, Cello Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra ...

Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...