Laurence Binyon’s “For the Fallen” has become the most familiar poem about the first world war. Elgar met Binyon when he was composing The Spirit of England, a cantata setting of three Binyon poems.

Here we have some of Elgar’s most listenable music, done with spirit. The Enigma Variations, of course, with its sketches of Elgar’s friends, is a concert-hall staple. The Cockaigne Overture is a ...

I admit it. I used to think Elgar was a composer who could be encapsulated by the clichés of the Last Night of the Proms and his handlebar moustache, that he and his music were mired in a British ...

The Music: The spirit of Hubert Parry, a favourite composer of the present Prince of Wales, presides over this album. His grand anthem Hear my words, ye people of 1894, and My soul, there is a country ...

Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, is one of the central pinnacles of the orchestral repertoire. In 1904, a crisis arose when Sir Henry Wood, ...

When Edward Elgar died in 1934, Alice Stuart Wortley, his close friend and muse for more than 30 years, wrote to his daughter: "He is our Shakespeare of music, born and died on the soil in the heart ...

Edward Elgar (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry Lilian Elkington Frederick Septimus Kelly Ivor (Bertie) Gurney Elegy, 'In Memoriam Rupert Brooke' David Lloyd-Jones, Conductor Frederick Septimus Kelly, ...