Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is exactly 100 years since Elgar’s Violin Concerto was first performed at the old Queen’s Hall in London.

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 ...

Plenty of non-English violinists have tackled the Elgar concerto, but none in my experience has combined such feeling for the idiom with such natural virtuosity – except, perhaps, Julia Fischer, who ...

The Music Elgar’s Violin Concerto was one of the great triumphs of his career. ‘For a quarter of an hour they recalled the man who had achieved a triumph not only for himself, but also for England,’ ...

Elgar Violin Concerto Decca, streaming now; CD out July 10 Nicola Benedetti has been such a feature on the classical music scene for almost two decades, it’s hard to remember she’s still only 32.

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

Canadian James Ehnes, who appears this week with the San Francisco Symphony playing Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy," is a splendid violinist, with a sweet, lyrical string tone and a zippy rhythmic sense.

Tackling Elgar’s Violin Concerto, a mighty peak of the repertoire, takes courage. Rival versions include recordings by Nigel Kennedy and the youthful Yehudi Menuhin. But Nicola Benedetti is undaunted ...

With a Danish violinist, a German orchestra and a British conductor, this is a multi-national recording of Elgar’s masterpiece, but it just goes to show how universal his musical language is. As Sir ...