The much-loved Cello Concerto of Elgar and Martinů’s rarely played Cello Concerto No.1 might seem poles apart. The Elgar gets a heartfelt, sometimes portentous performance here from the impressive ...

Those drawn-out opening chords are some of the most memorable in all music. Stern, sensitive and dramatic, they connect this 20th century masterpiece with another monolith of the repertoire, Bach's ...

Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.

Anna Clyne’s impressive new work is a cello concerto inspired by Persian poetry and outshining the familiar Elgar work in Inbal Segev’s performance Dance is Anna Clyne’s hugely impressive new cello ...

To some, it remains simply the greatest recording in the history of classical music. Its earliest reviewers instantly recognised what one of them called its "rarest magic." And still, more than 50 ...

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 ...

Edward Elgar is one of this country’s finest composers but a string of inadequate performances and his popularity among ‘the wrong sort’ do him no favours One of the mysteries of London musical life ...

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 ...

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 ...