Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Few non-British conductors can match the Anglophile sympathies of Oramo, who starts as principal conductor of the BBC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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(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.

Hearing such authentic Elgarian sounds from a Swedish orchestra under a Finnish conductor may surprise, but Sakari Oramo specialized in British music while leading the CBSO so you’d expect nothing ...

Elgar: The Third Symphony forces everyone to rethink their estimate of its composer - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Elgar died 90 years ago this month, leaving behind 130 pages of sketches for a Third ...

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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. More than 40 years after first recording it in London, Daniel Barenboim returns to Elgar’s Second Symphony with the ...

Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Second Symphony, which was inspired by a trip to Italy, a happy sojurn in Tintagel in Cornwall and a poem by Shelley. Show more Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Second ...