Elgar Album Reviews

Watch Album reviews and new releases: Rarely heard Mozart, film favourites and vintage Elgar

Every week Classic FM brings you the best new albums, including world exclusives.

Watch Pinchas Zukerman: Elgar and Vaughan Williams

Classic FM Album of the Week, starting 29 February after 10am

Elgar: Sea Pictures/Polonia/Pomp & Circumstance - Hallé/Elder

Drive Featured Album, starting Monday 16 November 2015 after 6pm

Elgar: Music for Powick Asylum

Music from the young Elgar for an asylum band. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 24 March 2014.

Elgar & Vaughan Williams: Kansas City Symphony/Michael Stern

An all-American performance of some British classics. Drive Featured Album, 21 January 2013.

Elder's Elgar

Mark Elder leads the Hallé Orchestra in an Elgar orchestral extravaganza, and Schiff has a stab at the renowned cello concerto

Aronowitz Ensemble get poetic with great British works

The Aronowitz Ensemble capture Huw Watkins' nostalgia in pieces written for the group that sits nicely between two British greats: Elgar and Vaughan Williams

A radiant Elgar's Violin Concerto

Tasmin Little accompanied by the RSNO under Andrew Davis delivers a passionate, engaging performance of Elgar's Violin Concerto

Delightful Pairing of Elgar and Grieg

A beautiful and spacious treatment of two fine composers.

Elgar's The Kingdom lacks conviction

Hallé Choir and Orchestra are let down by soloists who seem to share Elgar's own misgivings about his sublime work

Four Elgar World Premieres

A recording made with unqualified love and great care.

Elgar Celebrates the Joy of Youth

Innocence lays at the core of these works.

Elgar's Concerto dreamy yet passionate

If you like your Elgar passionate as well as wistful, then this recording by violinist Nikolaj Znaider is for you

Early Elgar pretty but dull

Elgar's Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol.2 are pleasant and well performed but there are few surprises

Graffin Unearths Original Elgar Score

Philippe Graffin goes back to Elgar's original score for this winning recording.

Choral Favourites Evoke Romantic Spirit

Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir performance of Elgar, Parry, Stanford and Vaughan Williams is joyful but lacks punch

Brahms and Elgar rub shoulders

Brahms and Elgar find themselves together on a single volume by Adrian Boult.