When Edward Elgar unveiled his first symphony in 1908, it was hailed as the greatest British symphony ever written. The London papers were ecstatic. The Morning Post wrote, "This is a work for the ...

Elgar: The Third Symphony forces everyone to rethink their estimate of its composer - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Elgar died 90 years ago this month, leaving behind 130 pages of sketches for a Third ...

Another one of Mozart's musical miracles, his Symphony No. 41 in C major, the "Jupiter," is part of the great triptych of symphonies that marked the end of his symphonic output. “It is other-worldly ...

The Boston Philharmonic performed Schumann’s “Manfred Overture,” Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1—a symphony seldom included on orchestral programs outside Britain—for a full ...

Daniel Cariaga, a music critic at The Times, does not much care for the symphonies of Edward Elgar. Witness these excerpts taken from his reviews over the years: * First Symphony [May 6, 1995]: “Given ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Edward Elgar’s first symphony was a long time coming. But once the British composer finally put pen to paper at age 51, audiences at the time simply couldn’t get enough. But tastes ...

Arriving at the stately Brattle Street home of Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, I find the maestro in slippers, seated in a cozy leather chair and enraptured by ...

An award-winning cellist joins an award-winning orchestra for an award-worthy program of music by Beethoven, Elgar and Sierra this weekend at Miller Symphony Hall. Matt Haimovitz will team up with the ...

With time and experience we learn to mistrust the impulse to read biography into art — to suppose, for instance, that a piece of music reflects in some straightforward way the emotional state of the ...

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Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the enduring qualities of the English composer's first symphony. Elgar's Belated Symphony: Majestic, Noble And Perfectly British Elgar's Belated Symphony: Majestic, ...