Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A fifth album in Daniel Barenboim’s Elgar cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin comes out on Friday. By David Allen Daniel Barenboim and Edward Elgar ...

This week’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts at Orchestra Hall have the sense of an occasion: They offer performances of a large-scale masterwork that originally received its American premiere by ...

The composers who reacted against the modernist revolution early in the last century can be every bit as fascinating, if not more so, than those who mounted the barricades. Consider Elgar and Sibelius ...

Conductor Daniel Barenboim already had a feel for Edward Elgar’s music in the 1970s when he recorded many of the English composer’s orchestral works, including the Cello Concerto with his wife, ...

British composer Edward Elgar wrote his cello concerto in 1919 — soon after the end of World War I — and it's suffused with the dark weight of that war. That in itself is noteworthy, because ...

The biggest repertoire draw here was meant to be Edward Elgar's glorious Cello Concerto, with Daniel Barenboim conducting, paired with two other works: Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto and Max Bruch's ...