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 ...

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s. It will be reunited with the sketchbook the composer tore the pages from ...

The ‘New Dan’ will be officially unveiled on the first Saturday of the Three Choirs Festival, on July 26 at 3pm on Bishop's Meadow. As part of the campaign to restore Dan, Herefordshire primary school ...

Elgar’s father was at the centre of Worcester’s musical life, on friendly terms with the local gentry and clergy connected with the Anglican Cathedral. By the age of 12 his son was deputising for him ...

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 ...

and Master of the King’s Musick (Elgar) to Edward VII’s much-lamented consort. "The Abbey Choir […] give an excellent account of themselves, the trebles especially singing with the confidence of ...

The array of mastery in the four versions I have listed presents an extraordinary range of expressive imagination. Elgar's elusive and taxing concerto inspires the widest range of interpretation, and ...