Another one of Mozart's musical miracles, his Symphony No. 41 in C major, the "Jupiter," is part of the great triptych of symphonies that marked the end of his symphonic output. “It is other-worldly ...

"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 ...

For the first piece that he presented at the renovated and reopened Powell Hall, Symphony Orchestra Conductor ...

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 ...

No soldiers paraded, no trumpets blared, no drums rolled out an elegy. But throughout the Western World last week a mighty marching tune reverberated. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, was dead in Worcester, ...

IGOR MARKEVITCH: Cantique d’amour (1936). L’envol d’ Icare (Icarus’ Flight) (1932). Concerto Grosso (1936). Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra. Naxos 8.572153 ...

British composer Edward Elgar wrote his cello concerto in 1919 — soon after the end of World War I — and it's suffused with the dark weight of that war. That in itself is noteworthy, because ...

The “Enigma” Variations was written as a set of musical character sketches of Edward Elgar’s friends, with the first variation cast as a tender tribute to his wife and the finale as a rousing ...

One of the pillars of the English choral tradition, Sir Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius,” returns to Seattle in time for Christmas. The 100-minute oratorio, one of Elgar’s supreme achievements, ...

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 ...