Jon Robertson conducted one of his favorite pieces of music Saturday night in his next-to-the-last concert as music director of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. That favorite was Edward Elgar’s ...

One theme – endlessly talked about – and fourteen variations on it. Each variation was the result of a parlour game between Elgar and his wife, Alice. He’d played the theme to her, which he described ...

Book your tickets today to hear Edinburgh’s first resident philharmonic orchestra for almost 90 years brings its first annual season to a conclusion with one of the most perplexing pieces of music ...

Lily Sullivan is among the winners of Central Oregon Symphony's Young Artist Competition, held in December. The Central Oregon Symphony’s Winter Concert this weekend at Caldera High School features ...

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1923) is one of England’s greatest composers, best known for big works like his “Enigma Variations,” the violin and cello concertos, the oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” and, ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ed Ayres from ABC Classic tells you more about the No. 5 in this year’s Classic 100: The music you ...

Music Director Laureate Miguel Harth-Bedoya returns to lead the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in a memorable evening. In a brilliant bit of musical mischief, Edward Elgar said that the melody to ...

The BBC Philharmonic perform one of the most well-known and much loved pieces in the British classical music canon, Sir Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, filmed at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

Victorian England loved its monster choral works. It wolfed them down at seemingly endless year-long seasons of festivals up and down the country. Coming just one year after the successful Enigma ...