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 ...

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 ...