At this time, Elgar also wrote his finest chamber music - the String Quartet, Piano Quintet and Violin Sonata. The Cello Concerto was just as inward-looking but on a huge scale: worthy of the life ...

It's the Cello Concerto by Edward Elgar. Our concert performance took place two weeks ago at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming. Lynn Harrell is the cello soloist, Donald Runnicles conducts.

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding ... he didn’t and it remains one of the most English of all pieces of English music.

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

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 ...

In her concerto debut, with few performances under her belt and still a teen, du Pré had not only roused one of the most important stages in London but managed to astound Britain’s most distinguished ...

Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks about what it's like to play Elgar's Cello Concerto, and Tim Dinsley shares the way in which he and his daughter Jo used this music to support them as she was dying.

deft interpreter of Elgar's late Cello Concerto. He knows when to let the music muse, how to handle its lightfootedness, and isn't shy of those rhetorical hesitations which, in this piece ...

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 ...