There’s an elegiac undertow to the concerto Elgar described as ‘a real large work, good and alive’. And laced with telling self-quotations, Rachmaninoff’s orchestral swansong ends on a note of fierce ...

Piers du Pré, and then in the film the book inspired, Hilary and Jackie, starring Emily Watson as the brilliant cellist Jacqueline du Pré, Hilary and Piers's sister, though concentrating less ...

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There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...

They don’t always use a cello. In “Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy ... smile and a story as mournful as her trademark Elgar Cello Concerto: Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ...

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