Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew DavisChandos CHAN 10709 **** Paul Watkins is a gutsy, deft interpreter of Elgar's late Cello Concerto ... of the Introduction and Allegro ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding ... they at least keep the listener waiting through a short orchestral introduction. Elgar ...

A concert of differing moods from composers writing nearly a century apart. Elgar’s introspective Concerto reflects with intensity his despair about the world after the Great War that destroyed ...

47, “Kreutzer” by Ludwig van Beethoven, and Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 by Edward Elgar. Performances from Classical Tahoe including Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, “Drumroll” by ...

All that anguish, on so many levels, found its way into music that, despite it all, emerged as Elgar’s profoundly beautiful Cello Concerto in e-minor. In 1965, cellist Jacqueline du Pré ...

The first work was the Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85 (1919) of Sir Edward Elgar. The featured soloist was internationally renowned cellist and Music Director of the Northwest Bach Festival ...

Called “the fast rising star of conducting” Klaus Mäkelä returns to conduct a program highlighting the works of British conductors: Elgar’s much loved Cello Concerto, and Walton’s ...

The music this evening ranges from the depths of the trenches to the summits of the Alps – with Elgar’s cello concerto and Strauss’ Alpine Symphony. Leading the way for these two ...

Her Elgar concerto is ponderously slow and soporific, with overemphatic phrasing in the second and fourth movements. She fails to probe the music’s elegiac intimacy. Her style might have been ...

He’ll be playing the first of two works by Edward Elgar in the concert, the Elgar Cello Concerto, to close the first half of the performance. After intermission, the orchestra will tackle ...

The 23-year-old has already played for the royals and tackled the Elgar Cello Concerto. Where does he go from here? By Kate Mossman Sheku Kanneh-Mason was travelling from London to Paris by Eurostar ...

The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta will perform Elgar's exquisite cello concerto along with Mozart's ever-popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in the beautiful candlelit setting of ...