Laurence Binyon’s “For the Fallen” has become the most familiar poem about the first world war. Elgar met Binyon when he was composing The Spirit of England, a cantata setting of three Binyon poems.

Here we have some of Elgar’s most listenable music, done with spirit. The Enigma Variations, of course, with its sketches of Elgar’s friends, is a concert-hall staple. The Cockaigne Overture is a ...

I admit it. I used to think Elgar was a composer who could be encapsulated by the clichés of the Last Night of the Proms and his handlebar moustache, that he and his music were mired in a British ...

The Music: The spirit of Hubert Parry, a favourite composer of the present Prince of Wales, presides over this album. His grand anthem Hear my words, ye people of 1894, and My soul, there is a country ...

They don't give just anyone a knighthood, you know! Here's just a handful of reasons why you should stop what you're doing and listen to SIR Edward Elgar right now... He can get you toe-tapping in no ...

Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, is one of the central pinnacles of the orchestral repertoire. In 1904, a crisis arose when Sir Henry Wood, ...

When Edward Elgar died in 1934, Alice Stuart Wortley, his close friend and muse for more than 30 years, wrote to his daughter: "He is our Shakespeare of music, born and died on the soil in the heart ...

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 ...

Elegy, 'In Memoriam Rupert Brooke' David Lloyd-Jones, Conductor Frederick Septimus Kelly, Composer BBC Symphony Orchestra War Elegy BBC Symphony Orchestra Ivor (Bertie) Gurney, Composer David ...