‘What’s that?’ she asked.” She progressed rapidly, winning the Guilhermina award – Britain’s most prestigious cello award – at 11 and making her Wigmore Hall debut at 16. Her 1965 performance of Elgar ...

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 ...

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, ...

ELGAR Sea Pictures (c/w Symphonies 1 & 2; Enigma Variations; Cello Concerto; Chanson de nuit; Chanson de matin; Elegy for String Orchestra; Overture ‘Cockaigne’; Froissart; Contrasts from ...