In The Kingdom Elgar set about telling the story of the acts of the disciples after Jesus’s ascension, taking most of his text from the first four chapters of the Acts of the Apostles ...
Elgar needed little persuasion when approached in 1915 to compose music for The Starlight Express, an adaptation for the stage of Algernon Blackwood’s fantasy novel, A Prisoner in Fairyland.
With Canterbury Choral Society and CCS Youth Choir, London Mozart Players, Richard Cooke, Sophie Bevan, Peter Hoare and Benjamin Bevan. Trying to find the right nursery, school, college ...
This first issue in what Philips plan as a whole Elgar series from Previn and the RPO provides a most enticing start. I have not always found Previn so naturally attuned to Elgar, as he so clearly is ...
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 ...