Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The appeal of a major romantic concerto to international violinists has lifted Elgar’s concerto out of the ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nicola Benedetti: A natural instinct for tone and colour. It was strange but moving to hear a young musician in the springtime of her ...

Elgar's 145th birthday coincided with the Golden Jubilee weekend, and Michael Heald (violin) and Liana Embovica-Rivkin (piano) helped to celebrate in recital. It was apparent immediately in Schubert's ...

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

From St Lawrence's Church, Shaw's Corner, tenor Benjamin Hulett sings Somervell, Butterworth and Gurney and violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Zhang Zuo play Elgar's Violin Sonata. Show more Music ...

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 ...