What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

A beautiful rendition of Elgar's Enigma Variations, played by a string quartet. Warning: it might make you weep uncontrollably. The Carducci Quartet, recognised as one of today’s most successful ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

When: Next performance is “Schubert II: Soiree Musicale” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; festival continues through Aug. 24 Where: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La ...

English composer Edward Elgar completed three chamber works in the English countryside at the secluded cottage "Brinkwells" in West Sussex found by his wife Alice. Here he completed his Violin Sonata, ...

Elgar’s only string quartet, a masterpiece of the chamber music repertoire premiered in 1918, is well established. That of his contemporary Delius, dating from a year earlier, is more of a rarity. The ...

Edward Elgar said he learned to write for strings by listening to the music of Handel. Elgar based his Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra on Handel's concerto grosso ...

String Quartet arr. for Strings St Paul's Cathedral Orchestra Edward Elgar, Composer Sonata for Strings, after String Quartet No 2 St Paul's Cathedral Orchestra Malcolm Arnold, Composer String Quartet ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...

A most distinguished display, then, and it’s preceded here by a keenly perceptive, shrewdly observant account of the String Quartet. Take the slow movement, where Elgar’s marking of Piacevole ...