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Edward Elgar

Rethinking the Repertoire #14 – Sir Edward Elgar’s “Sea Pictures”

Sea Pictures offers, frankly, everything one might want in a song cycle: sweeping melodies, evocative scoring, stirring drama and pathos.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Edward Elgar, Sea Pictures

Fuse CD Reviews: Jan Vogler plays Tchaikovsky, Benjamin Beilman’s “Spectrum,” Kenneth Woods conducts Elgar

Spectrum is a stylish, intelligent, and enjoyable disc played by a couple of musicians from whom we can expect big things.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Avie, Benjamin Beilman, Edward Elgar, English Symphony Orchestra, Jan Vogler, Kenneth Woods, Sony Classical, Spectrum, Tchaikovsky, Warner Classics, Yekwon Sunwoo

Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Orchestra at Sanders Theater

Elgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Benjamin-Zander, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Elgar, Jennifer Frautschi

Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard

There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Edward Elgar, Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Jacqueline du Pré, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Classical Music: The BBC Proms in London

By Caldwell Titcomb The world’s largest festival of classical music is the BBC Proms in London. Founded in 1895 by Sir Henry Wood (who in 1918 was offered the conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra but declined), the Proms this season run for two months from mid-July to mid-September. The core of the enterprise is […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: BBC Proms, Caldwell-Titcomb, Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Gustav-Holst, London, Sir Harrison Birtwistle., Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

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