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| Composer | Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Year | 1911 |
| Work type | Orchestral |
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Vasily Petrenko delivers an Elgar 2 of rare distinction with the RPO
Romanticism is the obvious link between Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and Elgar's Second Symphony in this absorbing evening's entertainment supplied by Denis Kozhukhin, the RPO and its Music Director, Vasily Petrenko.
Full English: Sinfonia of London provides sustenance at Snape
Elgar's Second Symphony crowns an all -English programme by John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Big-boned Elgar 2 opens the BBC Philharmonic's season
Mark Wigglesworth conducts vivid Elgar with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
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Bachtrack top ten: Edward Elgar
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.