Latest News: Classical, Elgar (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Paul McCreesh conducts Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius 26th April 2024Using instruments from around the time of the work's premiere in 1900, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players offer an illuminating recording that not only provides great textual clarity but also shows off the fine details of Elgar's orchestration.
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Interview,
Michael Barenboim on Elgar and more 7th March 2024The violinist discusses his recent recording of the Elgar concerto, his work as Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, switching between violin and viola - and family values.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson and Sinfonia of London perform music for strings by English composers 3rd February 2023Following on from their 2021 album of English music for strings, John Wilson and his orchestra offer a spectacular selection of works by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Herbert Howells, and Delius.
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Recording of the Week,
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout 20th January 2023The young British viola-player's account of the Cello Concerto as transcribed by Lionel Tertis is a compelling addition to the piece's distinguished discography on its own terms, with sensitive support from the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.
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Recording of the Week,
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla: The British Project 13th August 2021The Lithuanian conductor and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra present evocative and dramatic accounts of four works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Walton.
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Interview,
Renaud Capuçon on Elgar 16th March 2021The French violinist talks to Katherine about recording the Violin Concerto and Sonata with Sir Simon Rattle, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Stephen Hough.
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Recording of the Week,
Nicola Benedetti plays Elgar 7th August 2020The Scottish-Italian violinist embraces the heart-on-sleeve qualities of a work which the composer ruefully described as 'awfully emotional', her passion and responsiveness matched by Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Martyn Brabbins conducts Elgar's Caractacus 29th March 2019Martyn Brabbins conducts the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Orchestra of Opera North in a stirring new recording of Elgar's rarely-performed cantata, Caractacus.
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Recording of the Week,
Daniel Barenboim conducts Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius 14th July 2017Katherine listens to a blistering new performance of Elgar's religious masterwork, with Andrew Staples, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Thomas Hampson.
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Recording of the Week,
Steven Isserlis plays cello concertos by Elgar and Walton 19th February 2016Chris listens to Isserlis's new recording of perhaps the most famous cello concerto ever written.
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Recording of the Week,
Andrew Davis conducts Elgar's King Olaf 26th January 2015James listens to Edward Elgar's relatively little-known cantata, based on Longfellow's poem about Olaf, the first Christian king of Norway.
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Favourites,
Edward Elgar James offers his thoughts on some of the very best recordings of the music of Sir Edward Elgar.
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Recording of the Week,
Elgar & Carter from Alisa Weilerstein 4th February 2013The American cellist worked closely with Carter (who died last year) whilst preparing his 2001 Cello Concerto, and brings a touching elegiac lyricism to the Japanese-influenced slow movement; her introverted and tender account of the Elgar is no less engaging.
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Recording of the Week,
Elgar and the First World War 5th November 2012Sir Andrew Davis presides over a touching account of the incidental music for The Starlight Express, whilst John Wilson champions wartime rarities including Polonia, Carillon, and Le drapeau belge*; Simon Callow narrates with gusto on both recordings.
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Recording of the Week,
Two important Elgar rarities 9th November 2009Sir Andrew Davis conducts The Crown of India with the BBC Philharmonic, and Roderick Williams and others explore The Fringes of the Fleet, a patriotic song-cycle setting texts by Rudyard Kipling.
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Recording of the Week,
Natalie Clein and the Elgar Cello Concerto 24th September 2007The 1994 BBC Young Musician of the Year records the concerto which propelled her to victory with Vernon Handley and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Elgar's Enigma Variations 4th June 2007Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra mark the 150th anniversary of the English composer’s birth with a marvellous new live recording of his tribute to ‘my friends pictured within’.