Far from being daunted by the prospect of recording Elgar’s much-loved composition, Nicola Benedetti has relished the challenge. “I have my own very clear ideas of how I hear it,” she tells Scotsman ...

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 ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Allegro The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is ...

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,’ ...

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 ...

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.

David Lloyd Jones leads the English Northern Philharmonia in Edward Elgar's "Sospiri," music for strings. (Naxos 8.555068) ...

A year after the premieres of Berlioz's Béatrice and Béneçdict, Les troyens à Carthage is first performed in Paris. Elgar loved Berlioz's music and influences can often be heard in compositions such ...

The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish inscription ...

The English Northern Philharmonia plays a piece called "Sospiri" by Edward Elgar. The conductor is David Lloyd-Jones.

The Elgar Violin Concerto has had a good year on CD. First came Nikolaj Znaider with the Dresden Staatskapelle under Colin Davis – still my favourite, despite the rival claims of Thomas Zehetmair and ...