Notable for its charged musical energy, Introduction and Allegro mirrors In the South in its florid, dramatic string writing, ...

Reed, later to become Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra. Reed and Elgar (at the piano ... by two less forceful ‘Windflower’ themes, the second tenderly picked up by a solo clarinet.

Now living in London, his religious faith receding, Elgar turned his attention to what he considered to be the pinnacle of the composer’s art – the writing of a symphony. He achieved his ambition in ...

"When I first gave Elgar's (Symphony No. 1) a listen ... "I believe that was the second movie I had ever seen in a movie ...