One hundred years ago this summer, Edward Elgar completed a concerto that became one of the linchpins of classical cello repertoire. The piece was thrust into popular consciousness more than four ...
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Acclaimed British cellist Paul Watkins performs with the Colorado Symphony this weekend as the featured soloist on Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Watkins, who became principal cellist of the BBC ...
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 ...
That’s how Edward Elgar, at the age of 62 in 1919, summarized his “Cello Concerto.” writes about classical music for The Hamilton Spectator.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From its first powerful chords, it's one of the most heartrending pieces of music ever composed. Sharon ...
While we take a pause for Christmas, we're bringing you four podcasts which Gramophone's Martin Cullingford and James Jolly have chosen as particularly enjoyable and memorable conversations. This week ...
A century after the premiere of Sir Edward Elgar’s monumental Cello Concerto in E minor, British cellistSheku Kanneh-Mason released a performance of the work under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle in his ...
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 ...
"I cannot do any real work with the awful shadow over us." English composer Edward Elgar wrote that to a friend during the dark days of World War I. He was living in a small cottage in Sussex. On ...