The notion of Sir Edward Elgar's music as provincially English is dealt a well-deserved blow with this CD. The conductor, Sir Colin Davis, is British, but violinist Nikolaj Znaider was born in ...

This CD of nine wartime compositions by Sir Edward Elgar not only suggests the passion of those times but also serves as a history lesson, reminding us of political bonds that linked Britain with ...

Bookspan: Engaging Elgar and Undervalued Dvorák Kent Teeters Sunday, June 1, 2014 Julia Baier / paavojarvi.com ...

This week’s carefully sifted classical releases include two symphonies by a fastidious, underrated Lancastrian, and a life-enhancing compilation of scratchy recordings conducted by a notable British ...

Daniel Barenboim and Edward Elgar have made for one of classical music’s most unusual love affairs in recent years. Outside England, the music of Elgar (1857-1934) still has a crusty, flag ...

Nor did Edward Elgar’s father, who, in spite of being the town’s best organist, had to keep a music shop to eke out a living for his seven children. Elgar’s early talent was extraordinary.

Among the great English composers, Edward Elgar was “distinguished” by a tin ear when it came to poetry. “The Music Makers,” the composer’s penultimate chorus-and-orchestra work, is a ...

But the real legacy of Elgar’s cycling is there in the music itself, in those works from 1900-1910 that he would think through while riding in the idyllic landscapes in the country that he loved.

We know him as the man who wrote the music used at graduations, but in Britain, Edward Elgar means a lot more. It's the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer who gave the British "Pomp ...