The Cleveland Orchestra's 2025 Blossom Music Festival will have a bit of everything to satisfy a wide variety of music tastes ...

Deeply associated with the music of Edward Elgar, he was to have conducted this concert. Instead, it was dedicated to his memory, with the orchestra’s current principal conductor, Sakari Oramo ...

How the light tread of the music became a shamble can be imagined. Yet Newman himself did have an idea of what Elgar wanted: ‘Some of the colour is meant to be no more than a vague wash ...

Today, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is a national monument. But at its first performance in Birmingham, 105 years ago, the music was thought daring, even difficult, while the subject matter ...

It also gave his creative impetus and his musical ambitions the boost they needed. All of Elgar’s important music was written during the 30 years of his marriage to Alice. They had one child, their ...

The festival, which will run from Saturday, May 24 to Sunday, June 1, is an annual event celebrating the life and music of Worcestershire's most renowned composer, Sir Edward Elgar. Read more ...

Elgar from the Abbey—what could be more fitting? From the regal opulence of Great is the Lord, first performed in Westminster Abbey in 1912, to the quiet devotion of the opus 2 Ave verum and Ave Maria ...

pioneered by composers ranging from Elgar and Britten, to Stravinsky, Gershwin, and John Williams. Advancing technology enabled the recording of classical music and jazz, which in turn lead to the ...

The choral work "The Snow" (this is hard to believe) was composed by the legendary British composer of pomp-filled orchestral ...

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 ...

Set in the composer’s hometown and surrounding areas over the week closest to Elgar’s birthday on June 2, the festival is an annual celebration of his music, spanning symphonic and string ...

Musical director of the Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, Stephen Shellard, said: "John Ireland’s ‘These things shall be’ was his biggest choral work showing the influences of Debussy, Stravinsky and ...