The British Library has secured previously unknown drafts of Edward Elgar’s 'Introduction and Allegro for Strings', shedding ...

The BBC Philharmonic perform one of the most well-known and much loved pieces in the British classical music canon, Sir ...

The new bill depicts Adam Smith The Bank of England has announced that the £20 banknotes depicting composer Sir Edward Elgar are to be removed from circulation from 30 June. The Elgar notes are ...

Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) wrote very little solo music for the organ, despite the fact that he was for a short time a professional organist. Given this ambiguous nature of Elgar’s relationship with ...

Now living in London, his religious faith receding, Elgar turned his attention to what he considered to be the pinnacle of the composer’s art – the writing of a symphony. He achieved his ambition in ...

(5-CD set also features performances conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Landon Ronald, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Georg Solti and Sir Charles Mackerras) LPO 0016-0020 (5-CD, budget) ...