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, ...

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 ...

At the rehearsal for the December 1908 London premiere of the Symphony No. 1 by Edward Elgar, conductor Hans Richter said to the musicians, "Gentlemen, let us now rehearse the greatest symphony of ...

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 ...

Sometimes the greatest works of art, literature and music start out as nothing more than doodles. So it was in October 1898, when the English composer Edward Elgar returned home after a tiresome day ...

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 ...