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 ...

(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.

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 ...

Edward Elgar dedicated his 1911 symphony No. 2 to the memory of Edward VII who died in May 1910. But Elgar told friends that the symphony represented everything that had happened to him from April ...

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 ...