Jerrold Northrop Moore, who has died aged 90, was an American academic who devoted much of his career to the British composer Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), sweeping up the biographical facts in the ...

“Gerontius,” by James Hamilton-Paterson, 264 pages, Soho Press Inc., New York, N.Y., $19.95. SIR EDWARD ELGAR was quite simply the first great British composer in nearly two centuries. British music ...

You can listen to extracts of some of Sir Edward Elgar's most famous works. The Elgar Trail is a circular route around the two counties taking in many of the Elgar landmarks. Some unusual facts about ...

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1923) is one of England’s greatest composers, best known for big works like his “Enigma Variations,” the violin and cello concertos, the oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” and, ...

One of the pillars of the English choral tradition, Sir Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius,” returns to Seattle in time for Christmas. The 100-minute oratorio, one of Elgar’s supreme achievements, ...

IGOR MARKEVITCH: Cantique d’amour (1936). L’envol d’ Icare (Icarus’ Flight) (1932). Concerto Grosso (1936). Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra. Naxos 8.572153 ...

Sir Edward Elgar, the Englishman who put English music back on the the international map early in the 20th century with his Enigma Variations, wrote his grand Violin Concerto in B-Minor in 1910. It ...

Amateur musicians invited to join Elgar Festival’s Come and Play workshop at Malvern College, performing with English Symphony Orchestra on May ...

No soldiers paraded, no trumpets blared, no drums rolled out an elegy. But throughout the Western World last week a mighty marching tune reverberated. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, was dead in Worcester, ...

One of Britain's greatest composers was a tourist who embarked on a now long-forgotten tour of Cornwall over a century ago. Sir Edward Elgar, who composed Land of Hope and Glory, was born in Worcester ...

The event, which celebrates the life and music of Worcestershire's most famous composer, Sir Edward Elgar, will take place from Saturday, May 24, to Sunday, June 1. The festival, launched in 2018, is ...