Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is exactly 100 years since Elgar’s Violin Concerto was first performed at the old Queen’s Hall in London.

Some of the very best recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto take me back in my imagination to the Queen’s Hall on November 10, 1910, when Elgar conducted Fritz Kreisler in a now legendary world ...

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

Try “Parade”, with its “cruel procession of talentless poseurs” and “crafty fakers of places and persons” delivered with a near-improvisatory swagger, making the reprise of the cycle’s opening fanfare ...

Plenty of non-English violinists have tackled the Elgar concerto, but none in my experience has combined such feeling for the idiom with such natural virtuosity – except, perhaps, Julia Fischer, who ...

Edward Elgar’s monumental Violin Concerto is one of those classical works that once enjoyed tremendous acclaim but is rarely heard these days. American violinist Elena Urioste believes the 1910 ...

About Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Diana McVeagh once commented: ‘To listen to the Violin Concerto is at times like eavesdropping on a private conversation – or even a confessional – so inward is its ...

The Music Elgar’s Violin Concerto was one of the great triumphs of his career. ‘For a quarter of an hour they recalled the man who had achieved a triumph not only for himself, but also for England,’ ...

Canadian James Ehnes, who appears this week with the San Francisco Symphony playing Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy," is a splendid violinist, with a sweet, lyrical string tone and a zippy rhythmic sense.