Yet the Cello Concerto also harked back to Elgar’s last symphonic work, Falstaff (written in 1913), even though that was on a much more expansive scale. Falstaff contrasts bluff rhetoric and ...

A third large-scale work, the inspired Violin Concerto, was premiered in 1910 by Fritz Kreisler. Elgar was awarded the highest British ... there’s a final magnificent autumnal flourish with his Cello ...

Let’s not beat about the bush: it takes something to make Elgar’s Cello Concerto work on the viola, to make it convincing even in those moments where a transposition up into the viola’s higher ...