Edward Elgar
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Oct 30, 2026
Lisa LinebergerCORRESPONDENT
Many of them are picking an instrument to play at school.
Lisa LinebergerCORRESPONDENT
They heard selections from Elgar and Stravinsky.
Lisa LinebergerCORRESPONDENT
The symphony also played a piece they might be more familiar with, the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Lisa LinebergerCORRESPONDENT
Music director and conductor James Lowe says that over two days, about 6,000 students come to see the show.
Anna Deavere SmithGUEST
So I took to the lifeguard at the 63rd Street.
Anna Deavere SmithGUEST
Why? We talked about swimming lanes and stickball in the street and Elgar, who was his favorite composer.
Anna Deavere SmithGUEST
I talked to Meredith Monk, speaking of composers, who you know.
Anna Deavere SmithGUEST
I couldn't believe back then she gave me an interview.
Fiona M. PalmerGUEST
They offered a platform for the commissioning and first performances of new large scale choral music in particular for British composers and or composers conductors.
Fiona M. PalmerGUEST
And if we think of striking examples of foreign conductors promoting and endorsing new British works, think of Hans Richter conducting, notwithstanding Elgar's disappointment with the premiere performance, The Dream of Carantius at Birmingham in 1900.
Fiona M. PalmerGUEST
So British orchestral culture was international in its repertoire and outlook.
Yajie YeHOST
Yeah, that really brings us to the wider questions of professional networks and looking at wider institutional ecosystems, for example, orchestral choral societies, festivals and concert organisations.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
the St John Campbell Deanery as it is.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
We also look after the church of Little Malvern where Edward Elgar is buried in the graveyard and Abergavenny just over the border into Wales.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
we have a substantial presence really through the pastoral ministry of our monk priests who are there living out on the parishes or go out onto the parishes from the monastery, a little bit of both, and that works very well.
Brendan ThomasGUEST
And as I said, here at Belmont, I suppose our main work is hospitality, as well as prayer, of course.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
So again, I'm not saying that there is a hierarchy of quality.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
But if I had to say to you which are to me the two most important masterpieces for cello and orchestra, they would be the Dvorak Cello Concerto and the Elgar Cello Concerto.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
In order to play this, we have Johannes Moser, who is a German-Canadian cellist.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
I have to share with you, I've been wanting to work with him for a very long time, and it just so happens that this year he's coming and I won't be conducting this program, which saddens me, but this program will be led by a fabulous young Russian conductor, Anna Rakitina.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
The Elgar is as much of a personal statement from the most English of composers as it is a personal statement as to what the cello can do that no other instrument does.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
The way that Elgar opens this concerto is one of the most moving moments in symphonic literature.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
But so is the end.
Carlos Miguel PrietoHOST
Instead of finishing this concerto in a very brilliant and fast form, like the Dvorak does, Elgar decides to finish it with a kind of very deep, personal adoration, almost a reflection, a very deep reflection.
Steve SobolikGUEST
We're playing Ave Maria by Schubert.
Steve SobolikGUEST
We'll be playing one of the variations from Edward Elgar's Olympia Variations called Nimrod, which is a very beautiful piece of music.
Steve SobolikGUEST
We've also got something we call Instant Concert.
Steve SobolikGUEST
It's about 30 or so tunes all put together in about a three-minute piece.
Laura WatkinsHOST
A lion's a good choice, actually.
Laura WatkinsHOST
Like in a previous iteration, we had the composer Elgar on the £20 note.
Laura WatkinsHOST
And the reason he was chosen is because he had particularly bushy moustache.
Laura WatkinsHOST
And the idea was that it was quite hard to counterfeit because it was so intricate.
Alex GaleHOST
In the more parochial 2014 NME list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, the song was placed higher still at number 36, but it went 35 better in a poll of Virgin Radio listeners in 2005 when it was voted the best British song of all time wow wow
Joel MorrisGUEST
what's Elgar gonna say about that
Daniel WhelanHOST
yeah what so I mean well what have you got to say about it more importantly the best
Alex GaleHOST
British song of all time and you don't like it what's
Michael BerkeleyHOST
That's T-H-Y-M-E. It's a memoir focusing on his house in southern France, originally a crumbling stone ruin, now a lifelong retreat and source of inspiration.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
Eric, you've got music for us today by Elgar, Haydn, Dvořák, but I think you want to begin with Chopin.
Eric IdleGUEST
Yeah, sure.
Eric IdleGUEST
I mean, I love Chopin.
18 MINS LATER
Eric IdleGUEST
Ken Russell was making some wonderful documentaries about composers.
Eric IdleGUEST
He was wonderful in those days.
Eric IdleGUEST
I mean, the first film we ever saw was about Elgar, which was the most magnificent film.
Eric IdleGUEST
And then he did one on Delius.
Martin BarreGUEST
That's what I mean.
Martin BarreGUEST
Elgar, Walton.
Martin BarreGUEST
I can't even think of the others, but they embraced English folk music because they were writing about England.
Martin BarreGUEST
So it all goes into the melting pot.
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