The September version of The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival concluded with two spectacular concerts on Friday, September 17, and Saturday, September 18. At the final concert, Mainly Mozart CEO Nancy ...

It's always a thrill to hear Elgar's greatest music played by one of the great European orchestras, under a conductor who brings to it a sense of the whole of the 19th-century symphonic tradition that ...

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 ...

I love Bruckner’s mature symphonies, but they still baffle me. Mostly in terms of how certain performances work, or don’t work, and the near-impossibility of understanding and explaining exactly why.

‘Nimrod’ from Elgar’s Enigma Variations has been crowned the greatest piece of British classical music in a Classic FM poll. Edward Elgar’s abiding melody ‘Nimrod’, from his 1899 Enigma Variations, ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Elgar needed little persuasion when approached in 1915 to compose music for ...

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 ...

Here's a musical riddle that has kept people guessing for over a century. English composer Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, ('Enigma') op. 36 is one of England's most beloved musical ...

Today, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is a national monument. But at its first performance in Birmingham, 105 years ago, the music was thought daring, even difficult, while the subject matter was ...

Amazon mp3: $7 | Amazon CD: $10 | ArkivMusic: $12 | Qobuz download: £5 - 7 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $9 Classical British-Nationalist Romp-and-Pompism meets Offenbach’s sublime Cello Concerto in this ...

A year after the premieres of Berlioz's Béatrice and Béneçdict, Les troyens à Carthage is first performed in Paris. Elgar loved Berlioz's music and influences can often be heard in compositions such ...