The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish ...

In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable ...

a violin sonata and a piano quintet – which had been given their first performances at the Wigmore Hall the previous May. Yet the Cello Concerto also harked back to Elgar’s last symphonic work ...

A third large-scale work, the inspired Violin Concerto, was premiered in 1910 by Fritz Kreisler. Elgar was awarded the highest British honour for artists, the Order of Merit, in 1911; the next year ...