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Edward Elgar 's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last major completed work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going public.
Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E ♭ major, Op. 63, was completed on 28 February 1911 and was premiered at the London Musical Festival at the Queen's Hall by the Queen's Hall Orchestra on 24 May 1911 with the composer conducting.
Discover Elgar: Cello Concerto; Symphony No. 2 by Edward Elgar released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Nov 10, 2009 · Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar 's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by...
- Ted Libbey
Aug 31, 2016 · From its opening solo cadenza, the first movement of Elgar’s Cello Concerto is filled with voices of lament and nostalgia. An almost shell-shocked single viola line announces the movement’s wandering main theme (around the 1:33 mark).
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Aug 7, 2008 · The new symphony was dedicated to the memory of Edward VII, who had died in May 1910; yet despite the fact that the second movement is sombre, and rises to a searing expression of grief, Elgar...
