Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nearly half a century ago a senior generation of conductors came to work in Britain and went native. Led by ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A fifth album in Daniel Barenboim’s Elgar cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin comes out on Friday. By David Allen Daniel Barenboim and Edward Elgar ...

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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.

Even though all of Elgar's music has been recorded, much of it by the composer himself, many important performances (most notably Arturo Toscanini's versions of the Enigma Variations with the BBC and ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

From the moustache to the military marches, from dogs to Wolves, here’s a guide to the quintessential Englishman, Sir Edward Elgar - composer of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ and the matchless Cello ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eleven years into his soon-to-end tenure as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir ...

Every now and then an issue in classical music touches a raw nerve, and jumps into the news. It happened last week, with the announcement that the moustachioed, hawk-nosed image of Edward Elgar was to ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ...