Royal College of Music students celebrate Elgar

12:31pm Friday 30th May 2008

TO celebrate the 151st birthday of Sir Edward Elgar, the Elgar Birthplace Museum is welcoming students from the Royal College of Music for a birthday recital. Jeanine Thorpe (violin) and Alison Rhind (piano) will perform a varied programme including the much loved Elgar Violin Sonata, alongside works by Bach, Saint-Saëns and Paganini.

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What Elgar was up to 100 years ago....

12:16pm Friday 30th May 2008

PHILIP BALDWIN reflects on what Elgar was doing 100 years ago – and looks ahead to the annual Elgar in Hereford Award, which is due to be presented on Sunday

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What Elgar means to me

11:55am Thursday 27th December 2007

Musical Memories in Three Movements by Pamela White, the first winner of the Elgar in Hereford Music Award First movement - Misteriouso (mysteriously).

What Elgar means to me, by Chrissie Lawson

2:01pm Friday 7th September 2007

I HAD always particularly enjoyed Edward Elgar's music and became besotted by a choral piece of music I was singing with my choir in London called The Music Makers.

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What Elgar means to me, by Liam Dunachie

11:17am Friday 13th July 2007

AS an 18 year-old involved in the Hereford music-making scene throughout my school career, having been a chorister in the cathedral choir and more recently having led the Herefordshire Youth Orchestra, the cult of Edward Elgar has always lurked near the surface.

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What Elgar means to me, by Roy Massey

11:01am Friday 13th July 2007

ELGAR once said that to hear his choral works at their best you should listen to them performed in a cathedral, where the building itself would give to the performance a very special quality.

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What Elgar means to me by Simon Mundy

10:52am Friday 13th July 2007

EDWARD Elgar was a great post-romantic composer in a European generation that included his close friend Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Glazunov.

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Essays about the real man

10:49am Friday 13th July 2007

A COLLECTION of essays on Edward Elgar has been published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of his birth.

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Edward Elgar - a factfile

10:44am Friday 13th July 2007

Edward Elgar was born on June 2, 1857, at a small cottage in Broadheath, Worcestershire.

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Where the works find their natural beauty

10:35am Friday 13th July 2007

IN the late summer of 1933, Edward Elgar conducted his Dream of Gerontius - relating the journey of a man's soul from this world to whatever lies thereafter - in Hereford Cathedral. Within a few months England's greatest composer was on his own deathbed. That Three Choirs Festival 74 years ago was, therefore, his last public appearance. It was also an occasion which attracted other great names, both as participants and observers.

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