Work: Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1 in D Major, Op.39

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Composer	Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)
Period	Romantic
Year	1901
Work type	Orchestral

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Bad KissingenSymphonic Mob – Bayerns größtes Spontanorchester

Kurgarten, Sat 20 Jun at 14:00

Dvořák, Handel, Price, Elgar

Munich Radio Orchestra; Mihhail Gerts; Unknown; Kantorei Herz-Jesu Bad Kissingen

Kuhmo Church, Thu 16 Jul at 11:00

Elgar, Beethoven, Schumann, Vivaldi

Susanne Kujala; Minna Pensola; Antti Tikkanen; Sergey Malov

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Royal Albert Hall, Sat 12 Sep at 19:15

Wood, Arne, Elgar, Parry, Britten, Traditional

BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo; Nicky Spence; Yuja Wang; BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Chorus

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Prom 4: Great Birtwistle and Elgar from Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin

Rohan Shotton, 16 Jul

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin shine in an inescapably political programme.

****1

Prom 2: A love letter from Berlin

Mark Pullinger, 15 Jul

Barenboim has a long relationship with Elgar's music, but the Staatskapelle's love affair is more recent, still in the passionate, excitable phase of discovery.

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Partygoers, pomp and Paddington Bear

Rohan Shotton, 10 Sep

The 2016 Proms come to a riotous close at the Royal Albert Hall.

***11

Bachtrack top ten: Edward Elgar

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Mark Pullinger, 02 Jun

Quintessentially English or establishment outsider? Elgar was seen as provincial – and was never more at home than in his beloved Malvern Hills – but he had a European outlook.