Davis was one of the supreme interpreters of Elgar’s heart-rending masterpiece ... BBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo to celebrate the life of a much-missed artist, colleague and friend.

Elgar’s father was at the centre of Worcester’s musical life, on friendly terms with the local gentry and clergy connected with the Anglican Cathedral. By the age of 12 his son was deputising for him ...

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 ...

South Africa will find out in two Tests' time. Dean Elgar, 36, will call it a career after the series against India, which starts in Centurion on Tuesday and is scheduled to end on January 7 at ...

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 ...

You would pay good money to watch Gibbs bat, and pay Elgar good money to bat as if your life depended on him not getting out. That wasn't simply a cap; it was an artefact of a man and his time as ...

Notable for its charged musical energy, Introduction and Allegro mirrors In the South in its florid, dramatic string writing, ...

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 ...

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