Later, Nevinson inspired Elgar to write his Cello Concerto.

** Andre Previn ( conductor ), Yo-Yo Ma & the London Symphony Orchestra for Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op.

She made her concerto début on 21 March 1962 at the Royal Festival Hall playing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Rudolf Schwarz.

At her 3 September 1964 Prom Concert, she performed the Elgar concerto as well as the world premiere of Priaulx Rainier's Cello Concerto.

Many of her most famous recordings were made on this instrument, including the Elgar Concerto with Barbirolli, the Robert Schumann Cello Concerto with Barenboim and the two Brahms cello sonatas.

It was the Peresson cello that du Pré played for the remainder of her career until 1973, using it for a second, live, recording of the Elgar Concerto, and her last studio recording, of Frédéric Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor and César Franck's Violin Sonata in A arranged for cello, in December 1971.

Nupen made other films featuring du Pré, including Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto, a documentary featuring a live performance of the Elgar ; and The Ghost, with Barenboim and Zukerman in a performance of the " Ghost " Piano Trio in D major, by Beethoven.

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin ( who conducted his Brit Award winning recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto ) and Richard Hickox.

Other commemorative works written around this time include the Concerto for Strings ( written in 1938 ), the slow movement of which is in joint memory of Michael and Edward Elgar ; the hymn tune Michael ( to the words " All My Hope on God is Founded " by Robert Bridges ); and the unfinished Cello Concerto, on which Howells had been working at the time of the boy's death and which he found himself unable to complete.

She visited Britain after the war, giving performances of the Elgar Cello Concerto in aid of charity.

** André Previn ( conductor ), Yo-Yo Ma & the London Symphony Orchestra for Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op.

* Cello Concerto by Sir Edward Elgar

His favourite record of the eight he selected for the show was Elgar ’ s Cello Concerto ; he chose the biggest poetry anthology possible as his book and a cello as a luxury on the desert island.

He has also published several editions and arrangements, principally for Faber Music, and was an advisor on new editions of Beethoven ’ s Cello Sonatas and Cello Variations, as well as the Cello Concertos of Dvořák and Elgar.

* Janet Baker, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir John Barbirolli ( 1965 ) is available on many EMI CDs ( only some of which include texts ), for example Elgar: Cello Concerto ; Cockaigne ; Sea Pictures, EMI Classics 5 62886 2

* Elizabeth Campbell, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite Elgar: Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures ABC Classics 4767966

In 2009 she received a British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Gold Badge Award, and in 2011 her album Elgar: Violin Concerto won the Critics Award at the Classic Brit Awards.

* 1982 Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.

In 1933, the year before both composers died, Sir Edward Elgar, who had flown to Paris to conduct a performance of his Violin Concerto, visited Delius at Grez.

* November 10-Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto, with Fritz Kreisler playing the solo part

** Daniel Barenboim ( conductor ), Itzhak Perlman & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor

She performed at the Proms in 1963, playing the Elgar Concerto with Sir Malcolm Sargent.

In 1965, at age 20, du Pré recorded the Elgar Concerto for EMI with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir John Barbirolli, which brought her international recognition.

Her last London concerts were in February 1973, including the Elgar Concerto with Zubin Mehta and the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

Aldershot, Hants, England / Brookfield, Vt., USA: Elgar, 1992.

Other recordings include the complete orchestral works of Debussy, the two symphonies of Elgar, the three Mozart / Da Ponte operas, and Wagner's complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Nominees for the 9th Grammy Awards ( 1967 ) included Julian Bream for Baroque Guitar, pianist John Browning for Prokofiev: Concert No. 1 in D Flat Major for Piano ; Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Piano ( conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with the Boston Symphony Orchestra ), pianist Raymond Lewenthal for Operatic Liszt, violinist Yehudi Menuhin for Elgar: Concerto for Violin, Ivan Moravec for Chopin: Nocturnes, Arthur Rubinstein for Rubinstein and Chopin ( featuring Frédéric Chopin's Bolero, Tarantelle, Fantaisie in F minor and Trois nouvelles études ), violinist Isaac Stern for Dvořák: Concerto in A Minor for Violin ( conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra ), and Australian classical guitarist John Williams for Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra / Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto in D Major for Guitar ( conducted by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra ).

Choral – Elgar The Kingdom Claire Rutter ; Susan Bickley ; John Hudson ; Iain Paterson ; Hallé Choir & Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder

Concerto – Elgar, Violin Concerto, Thomas Zehetmair ; Hallé Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder

Concerto – Elgar, Violin Concerto, James Ehnes, Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis ( Onyx )

* Sarah Connolly, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Simon Wright Elgar: Music Makers / Sea Pictures Naxos 8. 557710.

* Bernadette Greevy, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley Elgar: Symphony No. 2 / Sea Pictures Cfp 5753062

* Rosemarie Lang, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Hans-Peter Frank c / w Wagner Wesendonck Lieder and Gösta Nystroem Sănger vid havet ( Songs at the Sea ) Wagner / Nystroem / Elgar: Lieder BIS-CD-530

Grands lieder Great songs / Mahler, Elgar, Zemlinsky Forlane UCD 16642

* Edward Elgar: Chanson de Matin & Chanson de Nuit, Dream Children, Contrasts, Soliloquy, Three Bavarian Dances ( Leon Goossens / Norman Del Mar ), Serenade in E minor, King Arthur Suite, Starlight Express Suite ( George Hurst )

Cheltenham, UK / Lyme, N. H .: Elgar.

: Fučík Entrance of the Gladiators / Alford Colonel Bogey / Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever / Elgar Pomp & Circumstance No. 4 / Farnon State Occasion / Papineau-Couture Marche de Guillaument / Beethoven Turkish March ( from The Ruins of Athens ) / Schubert Marche Militaire / Johann Strauss I Radetzky March / Healey Willan Centennial March / Delibes Cortège de Bacchus / Tchaikovsky Jurisprudence March / Michael Conway Baker March ( Evocations, Movement II ) / Adaskin March No. 2 / Halvorsen Triumphal Entry of the Boyars / Grieg " March of the Dwarfs " ( from Lyric Suite / Herbert March of the Toys ( from Babes in Toyland ) / Rodgers March of the Siamese Children ( from The King & I ) / John Williams The Imperial March ( from The Empire Strikes Back )

: Appropriately, Elgar included in the variation a quotation from Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

He also became very distinguished in works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, including A Sea Symphony, Dona Nobis Pacem, Sancta Civitas and Five Tudor Portraits ; in those of Edward Elgar, especially The Dream of Gerontius, The Kingdom, and The Apostles ; in Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion ; and in Mendelssohn's Elijah.

His poem " Sea Slumber Song " was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the first song of his song-cycle Sea Pictures.

Until August 1900, Elgar's songs had been published by Novello: but Elgar had a disagreement with them, and from then his songs, including " The Pipes of Pan " and Sea Pictures were published by Boosey & Hawkes, who bought the copyright for £ 50, with a small royalty per copy of the songs published separately.

Edward Elgar Sea Pictures & Symphony No. 2 ( recorded live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, 11 April 1977.

Elgar: Sea Pictures, The Music Makers Chandos Records 9022

* Mary Jarred, contralto ; The BBC Orchestra, Section F ; Clarence Raybould, conductor Elgar's Interpreters on Record, Volume 5: Broadcasts from the Leech Collection at the British Library ( 1935 – 1950 ) Elgar Society EECD003-005 (" Sea Slumber Song " complete, " Sabbath Morning at Sea " to bar 84, " The Swimmer " bars between 74 and 107 are missing )

( 2003, recorded on 30 July 2003 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of the BBC Proms ), CD title is not that clear but the CD includes Walton Coronation Te Deum, Elgar Sea Pictures, Bax November Woods, Britten The Young Person ’ s Guide to the Orchestra Warner Classics 2564 61550-2

* Elgar, Edward Sea Pictures: A Cycle of Five Songs for Contralto with German translation by Dr. Wilhelm Henzen and French words by George Petilleau Boosey & Hawkes Ltd. ( Sheet music with libretti )

Later years brought performances of Bartok ’ s Concerto for Orchestra, Elgar ’ s Falstaff, Debussy ’ s La Mer and Britten ’ s Four Sea Interludes – pieces which would have been regarded as ‘ unplayable ’ in earlier times.

His poem " Where Corals Lie " was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as part of Sea Pictures and was first performed in 1899.

* Baroque and Romantic Vocal Music BIS-CD-127, singing Sea Pictures by Sir Edward Elgar

When in 1903 Vaughan Williams began to sketch the songs for chorus and orchestra that became A Sea Symphony, Elgar had not yet emerged as a symphonist.

Britain's leading composer of the era, Sir Edward Elgar, composed his song-cycle Sea Pictures for contralto and orchestra with Clara Butt in mind as the soloist, and she sang at the first performance of the work at the Norwich Festival on 5 October 1899, with the composer conducting.