Elgar from the Abbey—what could be more fitting? From the regal opulence of Great is the Lord, first performed in Westminster Abbey in 1912, to the quiet devotion of the opus 2 Ave verum and Ave Maria ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance ... available for rehearsal was taken by the other works in the programme, which were conducted by Albert ...

Elgar was a string-player, a violinist of considerable ability – the concerto and the sonata he wrote for the instrument are some of his most characteristic and personal works. Two works for ...

Given this ambiguous nature of Elgar’s relationship with the organ, and with the church culture of his time, this programme looks beyond the works originally conceived for organ to music arranged from ...

Now living in London, his religious faith receding, 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 ...

“Elgar often jotted down tunes and other musical ... and gradually turn them into fully-formed musical works,” Sandra Tuppen, Head of Music Collections at the British Library, wrote on the ...