An irresistible 11 p.m. deadline and an unusually long program made me exit Meyerhoff Hall last night at 10:22 p.m., thus missing the final movement of David Zinman’s performance of Elgar’s Symphony ...

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 ...

CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, the British conductor in residence, looked like a German nutcracker doll and conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra like a first-class maestro last night at the Meyerhoff ...

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 ...

The Boston Philharmonic performed Schumann’s “Manfred Overture,” Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1—a symphony seldom included on orchestral programs outside Britain—for a full ...

(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.

NEW HAVEN-- The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is about to come full circle, joining with its Yale University peers in tribute to a man who has a place not only in the city and university's history, but ...

Experienced singers invited to join Elgar Festival Chorus for The Black Knight at Worcester Cathedral, 2026. Perform with ...

Arriving at the stately Brattle Street home of Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, I find the maestro in slippers, seated in a cozy leather chair and enraptured by ...