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 six at the Proms ... There’s much ...

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 ...

Now living in London, his religious faith receding, Elgar turned his attention to what he considered to be the pinnacle of the composer’s art – the writing of a symphony. He achieved his ambition in ...