There’s a fraction greater warmth to the string timbre in that earlier transfer; but either way Boult’s July 1976 account of Elgar’s First Symphony (the last of his six at the Proms) simply demands to ...

Amateur musicians have been invited to join a pre-festival event in Worcester. The Elgar Festival, set to return to Worcestershire in May and June, has announced a pre-festival event titled 'Come and ...

Elgar remembered the event that first set his imagination working towards ... a few of the more striking ideas were commandeered for the Third Symphony, which Elgar began in 1933, but never ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote ... opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony Orchestra at the Queen’s Hall. Most of the time available for ...

Sir Andrew Davis, principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1989 to 2000, died earlier this year. Deeply associated with the music of Edward Elgar, he was to have conducted this concert.

Elgar turned his attention to what he considered to be the pinnacle of the composer’s art – the writing of a symphony. He achieved his ambition in no small measure, producing two masterworks, the ...

Musical director of the Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, Stephen Shellard, said: "John Ireland’s ‘These things shall be’ was his biggest choral work showing the influences of Debussy, Stravinsky and ...