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| Abbey Road - 70 Years Of Hits | ...Mark Lamarr presents a look at the long and varied history of the famous recording studio, opened on 12 November 1931 by Sir EDWARD ELGAR conducting the London Symphony Orchestra... |
| Advent Carol Service | ...Motet: Ave Maria (EDWARD ELGAR)... |
| Afternoon On 3 | ...... |
| Afternoon Performance | ...Louise Fryer presents an Afternoon Performance with a very ENGLISH flavour, including today the first broadcast Robert Walker's performing realisation of the sketches, drafts and recordings of EDWARD ELGAR's unfinished Piano Concerto. Plus the UK premiere of Edward Cowie's Ave Maria which forms part of a concert of British choral music the BBC Singers recorded in the Great Hall at Lancaster University.... |
| Choir, The | ...In the year of the 150th anniversary of EDWARD ELGAR's birth, Aled Jones explores Elgar's choral legacy. Plus the final instalment of performances from Let the Peoples Sing, a competition for amateur choirs from all over Europe.... |
| Comparing Notes With Brian Kay | ...In the last of the series, Brian Kay considers aspects of the life and music of Sir EDWARD ELGAR, with the composer's godson Wulstan Atkins.... |
| Composer Of The Week | ...EDWARD ELGAR... |
| Discovering Music | ...In the late 1920s and early 30s, towards the end of his life, EDWARD ELGAR assembled a number of pages of short sketches and fragments for a Piano Concerto.... |
| Edward Elgar (1857-1934) | |
| Edward Elgar | |
| Elgar And The Halle | ...Mark Elder, Music Director of the Halle, presents a series focusing on the close relationship enjoyed by the Halle and Sir EDWARD ELGAR.... |
| Elgar's 150th Anniversary | ...Elgar was the son of a local Worcester shop-keeper, yet became a pillar of the establishment as Sir EDWARD ELGAR of Broadheath, OM. David Cannadine, Professor of British History at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research, reflects on the images Elgar cultivated of himself and how far these are relevant or helpful today.... |
| Elgar's Dream | ...Matthew King recalls the birth of EDWARD ELGAR's The Dream of Gerontius in 1900.... |
| Friday Night Is Elgar Night | ...Charles Hazlewood presents and conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a selection of works by EDWARD ELGAR, who was born 150 years ago this week.... |
| Married To Music | ...Michael Kennedy and Wendy Hillary chart the life of Alice Elgar and reflect upon how she influenced her husband's music. Alice forfeited her inheritance and all contact with her family in order to become Mrs EDWARD ELGAR in 1886, and there are many who believe that without her, Elgar would never have written anything of merit.... |
| Master Musicians | ...Leading musicians give readings to celebrate the start of the 2001 season of the Proms. Violinist Tasmin Little reads from Rosa Burley's volume of memories of her friend, EDWARD ELGAR ... |
| Music For A While | ...Six musicians explore treasures at leading British musical museums or collections. 2: Virtuoso violinist Tasmin Little visits the birthplace of one of her favourite composers - EDWARD ELGAR. Melanie Weatherley and Catherine Sloan provide a tour of the Elgar Birthplace Museum at Lower Broadheath near Worcester.... |
| Music Matters | ...Conductor Marc Minkowski has made a virtue out of playing not only early repertoire but classical, romantic and modern music too. With such diversity, Tom asks him how he manages to keep focused. Michael Kennedy talks about his new biography of EDWARD ELGAR and Tom travels to Northumberland to explore its native folk music.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Petroc Trelawny introduces the first of several broadcasts of the music of EDWARD ELGAR.... |
| Phil The Shelf [radio Wales] | ...2/6. William Hague discusses William Wilberforce, Simon Mundy talks about EDWARD ELGAR, and Tracy Chevalier delves into her fiction on the life of William Blake. With Phil Rickman.... |
| Ramblings With Clare Balding | ...Clare Balding explores the routes that have been the source of inspiration for painters, writers and composers. She walks in EDWARD ELGAR's footsteps in the Malvern Hills. In the company of Sue Adney, one of the area's conservators, she discovers why this part of Worcestershire has been popular with walkers for centuries.... |
| Something Understood [world Service] | ...Music 1: ‘Caractacus, Scene IV, Rome, The Triumphal Procession’ by EDWARD ELGAR, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Released by Chandos records.... |
| Sound Stories | ...The marriage of EDWARD ELGAR and Caroline Alice Roberts seemed inauspicious to many people. She was the daughter of a military man, he was a jobbing musician, a Catholic and nine years her junior. But Alice became Elgar's bedrock. He set her poems, and when she died, his inspiration ceased. Elgar: Sea Pictures. Janet Baker (mezzo), Halle Orchestra/John Barbirolli. Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor. Nash Ensemble.... |