Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Few non-British conductors can match the Anglophile sympathies of Oramo, who starts as principal conductor of the BBC ...
Elgar conceived the Concert Allegro as a piano piece in 1901 but later gave the score to a colleague suggesting that he orchestrate it. This never happened, and we have had to wait until now to hear ...
(Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra; Seraphim SIB-6033: two records). Its rich and spacious slow movement alone makes Elgar’s long symphony worth hearing. Barbirolli pours on the sound.
Though admirers of the performances by Solti and Haitink might disagree, Mark Elder's Elgar cycle with the Hallé is surely now the most important since Adrian Boult's. The Second Symphony is arguably ...
CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, the British conductor in residence, looked like a German nutcracker doll and conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra like a first-class maestro last night at the Meyerhoff ...
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Starlight Express, Overture and Finale (Indianapolis Symphony, Raymond Leppard, conductor; Koss Classics). Elgar: Symphony No. 1; Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 2 (Baltimore Symphony, David ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. More than 40 years after first recording it in London, Daniel Barenboim returns to Elgar’s Second Symphony with the ...
Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Second Symphony, which was inspired by a trip to Italy, a happy sojurn in Tintagel in Cornwall and a poem by Shelley. Show more Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Second ...
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