Acclaimed British cellist Paul Watkins performs with the Colorado Symphony this weekend as the featured soloist on Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Watkins, who became principal cellist of the BBC ...

Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From its first powerful chords, it's one of the most heartrending pieces of music ever composed. Sharon ...

Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

Following its compelling opening Masterworks Series concerts last month, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra embraces an ...

Cello virtuoso Johannes Moser joins the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Bertrand de Billy in a performance of Edward Elgar’s beloved concerto. “Elgar’s concerto has its connections ...

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason is to release a recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, with the London Symphony conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. The announcement came just two days after the centenary of the ...

ON my 16th birthday my godfather, the composer Herbert Howells, presented me with a score of Elgar's Cello Concerto, which he inscribed: "To Julian, from HH to whom EE once said of this work, It 's ...