The BBC Philharmonic is joined by Chief Conductor John Storgårds for music from the early twentieth century.
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 Sympho ...
producing magical readings of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major or Elgar’s Cello Concerto. While Talia Erdal may not quite be up there in the same rarified stratospheric regions of the cello ...
Let’s not beat about the bush: it takes something to make Elgar’s Cello Concerto work on the viola, to make it convincing even in those moments where a transposition up into the viola’s higher ...
After meeting conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim for the first time in 2009, she went on to record an album with him - including a recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto. Barenboim hasn't recorded ...
there’s a final magnificent autumnal flourish with his Cello Concerto, String Quartet and Piano Quintet and then…nothing. After his wife’s death in 1920, Elgar lost the urge to create (he tried hard, ...
he’s recently recorded Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one of the key pieces in his instrument’s repertoire, for the Decca label. “It has always been my favourite piece of music, so it’s a ...