Artistic Director of the Budleigh Music Festival, Jason Thornton looks back on years learning the intricacies of exploring, listening to and conducting the music of Edward Elgar As a 16-year-old in ...

The season is underway, and we’re getting ready for a weekend of concerts that feature a piece especially close to my heart. I doubt many of you know it since it’s rarely played outside the British ...

IGOR MARKEVITCH: Cantique d’amour (1936). L’envol d’ Icare (Icarus’ Flight) (1932). Concerto Grosso (1936). Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra. Naxos 8.572153 ...

Conductor D. Kern Holoman — who retired as conductor of the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra a few years ago, passing the baton to Christian Baldini — will return to the podium as conductor emeritus at 7 p ...

Sir Edward Elgar is most famous for writing music about the English countryside, but he also wrote musical postcards from his travels abroad. His Bavarian Dance No. 3 recalls a shooting club that he ...

"I am still at heart the dreamy child who used to be found in the reeds." Edward Elgar composed many melodies as a boy that he returned to later in life. One of these works is his Nursery Suite. The ...