The performance of Elgar's oratorio that John Barbirolli conducted in Rome in November 1957 was briefly available on LP, and acquired a place in history as the only surviving record of the great Jon ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Sir John Barbirolli’s death, one of several British conductors who dominated the UK’s post-war record industry. Barbirolli made most of his recordings for EMI ...

Latest chart stats about ELGAR/THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS - peak chart position, weeks on chart, catalogue number, week-by-week chart placement and latest news ...

Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, is one of the central pinnacles of the orchestral repertoire. In 1904, a crisis arose when Sir Henry Wood, ...

Oliver O'Brien, who died on September 16th, aged 79, was an important activist in the field of choral and sacred music in Ireland… Oliver O'Brien, who died on September 16th, aged 79, was an important ...

When Edward Elgar died in 1934, Alice Stuart Wortley, his close friend and muse for more than 30 years, wrote to his daughter: "He is our Shakespeare of music, born and died on the soil in the heart ...

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