Edward Elgar
LPO/Gardner review – magical outing for Tippett’s ‘unplayable’ piano concerto
Coleridge-Taylor’s stately, long-lost Solemn Prelude and a crisp, exploratory interpretation of Elgar’s first symphony completed a trio of English compositions
Martin Kettle
27, Jan, 2023 @2:13 PM
Absolute power, misconduct and decline: the classical music pieces that unlock Tár
In his controversial film, Todd Field foregrounds melancholic works by Mahler and Elgar. Are they a requiem for Cate Blanchett’s supremely powerful conductor?
Phil Hebblethwaite
20, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM
Elgar: Viola Concerto; Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Violist Timothy Ridout makes deft work of Lionel Tertis’s arrangement of Elgar’s cello concerto and is equally impressive in Bloch’s Suite for viola and piano
Andrew Clements
19, Jan, 2023 @3:00 PM
Prom 59: The Dream of Gerontius review – outstanding Clayton helps create a season highlight
Edward Gardner conducted the London Philharmonic and the combined choirs of the LPO and Hallé to give a perfectly judged performance of Elgar’s great choral work
Andrew Clements
01, Sep, 2022 @12:49 PM
Prom 39: BBCSO/Oramo review – a soaring tale of three cities … and a blackbird
Oramo’s Prom of English music included the UK premiere of Turnage’s Time Flies; with an encore of Paul McCartney’s Blackbird from tubist Constantin Hartwig
Tim Ashley
16, Aug, 2022 @11:18 AM
BBC Concert Orchestra/Martin Yates review – rumbustious Elgar a high point
English music festival programme of works by neglected composers left me thinking music this far into the hinterland should be left there
Andrew Clements
29, May, 2022 @4:18 PM
Elgar and Bridge/Schwabe: Cello Concertos review – hugely impressive and refreshingly straightforward
A performance full of finely realised detail and lacking in bombast ensures these two great and contrasting British cello concertos shine
Andrew Clements
26, Nov, 2021 @11:12 AM
Anthony Payne obituary
Composer celebrated for completing Elgar’s Third Symphony but whose own voice was more modernist in style
Barry Millington
04, May, 2021 @4:53 PM
Elgar: where to start with his music
From the elegiac Nimrod to the poignant Cello Concerto and his magnificent choral works, there is far more to this British composer than pomp and circumstance
Andrew Clements
28, Oct, 2020 @12:00 PM
The divided land of 'woke' and Tory | Stewart Lee
The rightwing press is practised at poisoning our politics with confected outrage
Stewart Lee
06, Sep, 2020 @9:00 AM
Proms changes replace jingoism with hope | Letters
Letters: Readers air their views in the debate over the traditional flag-waving anthems Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory
Letters
31, Aug, 2020 @4:16 PM
Elgar: Sea Pictures, Falstaff review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Elina Garanča’s golden tone and Barenboim’s precision are appealing, if they don’t quite find Elgar’s most English music
Andrew Clements
23, Jul, 2020 @2:00 PM
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