Although she died in 1987, the image of cellist Jacqueline du Pré still resonates as one of the most recognised and beloved ...

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 ...

Senja Rummukainen joins the orchestra for Elgar's Cello Concerto, a lament written in the aftermath of the First World War, for things lost, and a very personal search for a way forward.

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 ...

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, ...