Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live - today music by Hugo Alfvén to accompany a Swedish midsummer day, Fela Sowande introduces Nigerian nostalgia, Grieg & Elgar as we mark the centenary of the BBC reaching Edinburgh and Prokofiev’s Wolf is charmed by Joanna Lumley.
.Roderick Williams has performed Elgar's music in top venues around the world - so we asked him to share his favourite memories of singing The Dream of Gerontius before our performance on May 16. This one happened at a venue a little smaller than he's used to - a pub in Lucerne...
We can't wait to welcome Esther Abrami to this year's Elgar Festival!
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Bruckner from the archives, plus Welsh composers, Mathias & Grace Williams; Elgar & a farewell to Sir Andrew Davis. Endnotes, May 2024 quarterly-review.org/endnotes-may-2… via Leslie Jones Andrew McGregor BBC Radio 3 BBC NOW BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Mathiasland Craig Roberts The Elgar Festival Elgar Society
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Over 400 in Middlesborough Town Hall for our Mozart concert Royal Northern Sinfonia: their biggest audience for years. A historic hall where a stained glass window names some artists who played there. Rachmaninoff, Cortot, Schnabel, Horowitz, Elgar. Important to keep classical music alive!
Take a listen to Pablo Ferrández' 'Night Sessions, Vol. 2,' released 2 weeks ago.
This 4-track EP features pieces by Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Schubert, and Glazunov, recorded in an intimate studio setting together with pianist Julien Quentin.
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