Yet the Cello Concerto also harked back to Elgar’s last symphonic work, Falstaff (written in 1913), even though that was on a much more expansive scale. Falstaff contrasts bluff rhetoric and ...

Much as I love the Solti/Decca version, for coming closest to Elgar's own recorded in its balancing of speeds and style, and delighted as I have been this time to find it sounding wonderfully full and ...

In its purposeful symphonic thrust and unsentimental objectivity, Sir Roger Norrington's interpretation of Elgar's First Symphony is basically ... or combustible spontaneity evident on, say, Solti's ...