There’s a fraction greater warmth to the string timbre in that earlier transfer; but either way Boult’s July 1976 account of Elgar’s First Symphony (the last of his ... in the performance of Brahms’s ...

In the end, a few of the more striking ideas were commandeered for the Third Symphony, which Elgar began in 1933, but never finished. The austerely powerful idea associated with ‘Antichrist ...

With concerts featuring Myung-whun Chung at the piano, Pinchas Zukerman leading from the podium, and inventive programming from Chief Conductor Andrea Battistoni, the Tokyo Philharmonic’s 2025 season ...

The slow third movement, in its distant key of B flat major, remains apart, like a brief dream that reaches no conclusion. But Elgar does not leave it at that: towards the end of the finale the ...

After his wife’s death in 1920, Elgar lost the urge to create (he tried hard, though unsuccessfully, to complete a Third Symphony). He was made Master of the King’s Music in 1924 and given a baronetcy ...