Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is exactly 100 years since Elgar’s Violin Concerto was first performed at the old Queen’s Hall in London.

Acclaimed British cellist Paul Watkins performs with the Colorado Symphony this weekend as the featured soloist on Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Watkins, who became principal cellist of the BBC ...

Edward Elgar’s monumental Violin Concerto is one of those classical works that once enjoyed tremendous acclaim but is rarely heard these days. American violinist Elena Urioste believes the 1910 ...

The celebrated young American cellist walks us through her recording of this "devastating" concerto written just after the end of World War I. She... Alisa Weilerstein Plays Elgar: Exploring Music ...

As the world ponders once again the great unanswered question - why? - in connection with the centenary of World War I, Truls Mork’s performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto (1919), written at the other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The appeal of a major romantic concerto to international violinists has lifted Elgar’s concerto out of the ...

The biggest repertoire draw here was meant to be Edward Elgar's glorious Cello Concerto, with Daniel Barenboim conducting, paired with two other works: Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto and Max Bruch's ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ...

With time and experience we learn to mistrust the impulse to read biography into art — to suppose, for instance, that a piece of music reflects in some straightforward way the emotional state of the ...

"I cannot do any real work with the awful shadow over us." English composer Edward Elgar wrote that to a friend during the dark days of World War I. He was living in a small cottage in Sussex. On ...