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    Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular...
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    concert-going public. In contrast with Elgar's earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative...
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    his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate...
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    A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have...
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  • Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto was first recorded complete in 1929. Truncated versions had been recorded in 1916 using the acoustic recording process...
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  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bruch) in G minor Violin Concerto No. 1 (Davies) Violin Concerto (Dvořák) in A minor Violin Concerto (Elgar) in B minor Violin...
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  • Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, in 1918, at the same time as he wrote his String Quartet in E minor and his Piano Quintet...
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  • Edward Elgar may be considered a modern composer, his romantic Introduction and Allegro strongly resembled the instrumentation setup of a concerto grosso...
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  • the cello a standard concerto instrument, along with the already-rooted piano and violin concertos; among the most notable concertos of the first half of...
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  • written by Edward Elgar (a violin concerto and a cello concerto), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner (four and three piano concertos, respectively)...
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    The Violin Concerto by William Walton was written in 1938–39 and dedicated to Jascha Heifetz, who commissioned the work and performed it at its premiere...
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    has been remastered for compact disc; the EMI CD couples it with Elgar's Violin Concerto conducted by the composer with Yehudi Menuhin as the soloist. Sixty...
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  • Edward Elgar in 1918. The others were the Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, and the Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84. Along with the Cello Concerto in E...
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  • Philharmonic, who assisted Elgar in the copying out, checking and playing through of parts, for example Gerontius and the Violin Concerto (Moore 1984, pp. 243...
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  • work persists, some cellists place the Schumann concerto alongside the cello concertos of Dvořák and Elgar in a group of great Romantic works for their instrument...
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    Symphony No. 1, and the Violin Concerto. Rejected ideas from the latter work and earlier sketches joined the material Elgar began developing in late...
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  • for contralto or mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed at the Birmingham Festival in 1912. Wikisource has...
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  • confidantes – Reed worked with him on the Violin Concerto and the Third Symphony, and Salmond worked on the Cello Concerto with him. Albert Sammons later made...
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    Howard Elgar: Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (2004). London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor Mozart: Violin Sonatas...
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  • Brian – The Cenci (first recording) Thomas de Hartmann – Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius (first recording on period instruments)...
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    international acclaim with her 1965 American debut, where she performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a piece closely associated with her. By the age of 20, she was...
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  • until 1985. The work was composed between two of Elgar's most large-scale works, the Violin Concerto and the Second Symphony, and is a contrastingly short...
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    performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto in October 1919, Lloyd Webber scripted and presented 'Music in the Air: 100 years of Elgar's Cello Concerto' for Classic...
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    standard recordings of others, particularly the first recording of Elgar’s cello concerto in 1920 with the composer conducting. Beatrice Harrison was born...
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    Grammophon, 1981) The Two Violin Concertos by Prokofiev (Angel, 1982) Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon, 1982) Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Kreutzer -...
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  • William Henry Reed (category Elgar scholars)
    (1910–1934) and his book Elgar As I Knew Him (1936), in which he goes into great detail about the genesis of the Violin Concerto in B minor. The book also...
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  • Souvenirs for violin and piano, Café Music for piano trio 2007 Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto (2008 Gramophone Classical Music Awards - Best Concerto) 2009 Homage...
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  • six works in this set are double concertos for two violins). The most influential and prolific composer of concertos during the Baroque period was the...
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    Hall, and performed in London and Paris as a soloist in Bach's Double Violin Concerto with Alina Ibragimova. She played in a memorial concert at Westminster...
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