Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

Edward Elgar hadn't written any chamber music for 30 years when he finally sat down to write his Piano Quintet. Here's a stellar performance from this summer's Bravo! Vail Valley Festival: Jean-Yves ...

Initially entitled Fragments of Elgar and premièred in August 1997 by David Owen Norris with the Dartington Festival Orchestra under Graeme Jenkins, Robert Walker’s performing realisation of Elgar’s ...

Who would have thought the Elgar Piano Quintet could sound this good? When the Elgar was programmed for this week’s Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival at Lakeside, many festival fans ...

These two CDs include first recordings of music by Elgar and Bax. The Elgar is a jolly song-cycle for four baritones and orchestra, written in wartime and long forgotten. On the same disc Williams ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Add to your library of Elgar's music with these two recommendations from CD ...

Huntington Estate stalwarts the Goldner String Quartet are joined by pianist Jayson Gillham to play Elgar at the conclusion of this year’s festival. As is tradition at the final performance of the ...

Lovers of chamber music had two quite different options between Oct. 9 and 11, with music ranging from the 12th-century German polymath Hildegard von Bingen to the late American composer Christopher ...

The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish inscription ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...