Work: Symphony no. 2 in E flat major, Op.63

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.

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Full English: Sinfonia of London provides sustenance at Snape

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Roy Westbrook, 18 Jun

Elgar's Second Symphony crowns an all -English programme by John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London at the Aldeburgh Festival.

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Big-boned Elgar 2 opens the BBC Philharmonic's season

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Rohan Shotton, 24 Sep

Mark Wigglesworth conducts vivid Elgar with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

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PooleWigglesworth Conducts Elgar

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On demand from Lighthouse, Poole, Wed 25 Feb at 19:30, From 25 Feb 19:30
to 28 Mar 23:59

Beethoven, Elgar

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Mark Wigglesworth; Clara-Jumi Kang

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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.