Elgar was a string-player, a violinist of considerable ability – the concerto and the sonata he wrote for the instrument are some of his most characteristic and personal works. Two works for string ...

Antonin Dvorak helped revive string-orchestra music with a famous serenade in 1875. A few years later, Tchaikovsky followed in his footsteps with his own Serenade for Strings, which we feature, ...

When I saw the poster design for the Iowa City Community String Orchestra’s spring concert on Sunday April 14 at 3 p.m., I wept tears of joy. It was still freezing out, snow and ice were everywhere, ...

Trafalgar Sinfonia under Ivor Setterfield plays Handel's 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'; Elgar's Serenade for Strings; Purcell's Pavane; Handel's 'Air' from the 'Water Music'; Rutter's Suite for ...

This is Leopold Stokowski’s third, and last, recording of Tchaikovsky’s tone poem on Dante’s doomed lovers and his first complete recording of the “Serenade,” both made in 1974 when he was age 92.

Sarah Devonald for Building a Library surveys recordings of Dvořák's Serenade for Strings in E major. In his early thirties and with a newborn son, Antonín Dvořák was struggling to make ends meet, a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A spate of new recordings has brought Elgar’s symphonies once again to the fore. Ever since the Symphony No. 1 was ...