Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet, Op. 84 has been viewed by several critics as problematic, both in relation to the nature of its musical material and the particular succession of musical events. After ...

Huntington Estate stalwarts the Goldner String Quartet are joined by pianist Jayson Gillham to play Elgar at the conclusion of this year’s festival. As is tradition at the final performance of the ...

Donald Fraser's orchestration of Elgar's expansive Piano Quintet was prompted by a 1918 entry in Lady Elgar's diary, describing a chance overhearing of her husband composing "wonderful new music ...

In the final months of the war, an ill and deeply depressed Elgar was taken off to Sussex by his doting wife Caroline Alice to a small cottage in Fittleworth. Here, in an astonishing bout of ...

Just after the First World War, English composer Edward Elgar was in uncomfortable conditions. The war had distressed him terribly; he was financially strained and had lost dear friends. He had been ...

This week's From the Top comes from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston, where 18-year-old Samuel Thomas unpacks his accordion to play "Chopin's Nightmare," and eleven-year-old violinist ...

The Goldner String Quartet judges the Elgar idiom persuasively, finding that blend of sensibility and muscularity, wistful meditation and optimistic motivation. The main works are the E minor String ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...