Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Elgar who has rapidly emerged as a pop sensation has released the music video for his new single “Better Tho,” which ...

Sir Edward Elgar is one of Britain’s best-loved composers, whose musical influences range from the likes of Brahms and Dvořák to Wagner. Here are 10 of his most memorable works. The Dream of Gerontius ...

Elgar's active years spanned both the Romantic period and the start of the 20th century. His work is often anthemic or evocative of the British countryside, and holds much national appeal, even to ...

Elgar was not the only English composer born in the 19th century to have travelled abroad and imbibed the effect of the best of Continental music, but he was the most successful at internalising the ...

In an age of music at the flick of a switch – music perfectly performed, thanks to edit after edit, take after take – live ...

When Edward Elgar died in 1934, Alice Stuart Wortley, his close friend and muse for more than 30 years, wrote to his daughter: "He is our Shakespeare of music, born and died on the soil in the heart ...

It's always a thrill to hear Elgar's greatest music played by one of the great European orchestras, under a conductor who brings to it a sense of the whole of the 19th-century symphonic tradition that ...

Today, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is a national monument. But at its first performance in Birmingham, 105 years ago, the music was thought daring, even difficult, while the subject matter was ...

Visit Worcestershire's early ideas include turning the Elgar Route into a "digital journey".

You can listen to extracts of some of Sir Edward Elgar's most famous works. The Elgar Trail is a circular route around the two counties taking in many of the Elgar landmarks. Some unusual facts about ...