Composer

A French conductor and violinist with Spanish roots, Sonia Ben-Santamaria has forged an original career at the crossroads of artistic excellence and transmission.

Christmas Concert

Le Sonambule

Salle Georges Brassens

Opéra Comédie

1879 – 1899 – 1919: Three compositions from three eras, exactly 20 years apart. But that's not the only thing that connects them. All are closely linked to very specific individuals. With Le Tombeau de Couperin, Maurice Ravel creates a musical monument to one of the greatest composers of the French Baroque – François Couperin. In his Enigma Variations, Edward Elgar portrays friends and companions. But who lies behind these musical character studies was a mystery for a long time. That has long been revealed, but the magic remains. And Brahms's only violin concerto would be unthinkable without Joseph Joachim. The star violinist not only advised Brahms, he wrestled with him over every note. The result: one of the most popular works in violin literature. At the helm is Finnegan Downie Dear, one of the most promising conductors on the international scene, and the name of violinist Hana Chang is also worth remembering. This is the music of the future. And it sounds spectacular.

Ravel, Brahms, Elgar | Finnegan Downie Dear

The Bell, Bremen

Bask in the glow of winter’s light with a radiant program of music that shimmers like freshly fallen snow. New Century Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco Girls Chorus unite in a performance that radiates warmth and wonder. In a season of reflection and renewal, let this concert be a moment of serenity and shared joy to brighten the longest nights.

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In Winter’s Glow

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Tiburon, CA

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church

Following his sensational success with Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto in February 2025, British rising star Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to Hamburg with Saint-Saëns' elegant Cello Concerto. His unprecedented career began with his surprise victory on the television show "Britain's Got Talent" and his subsequent performance by captivating an audience of millions at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Not exactly the usual path for a young graduate of the Royal Academy of Music... Yet the likeable musician and football fan has remained down-to-earth and approachable, enjoying playing with his six siblings as much as with the world's best orchestras. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, for example, will complement the ProArte program with Edward Elgar's masterful First Symphony.

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sheku Kanneh-Mason / Edward Gardner

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

A Thursday concert that moves from full cello focus with soloist Senja Rummukainen to a playful parade of the entire Malmö Symphony Orchestra's instruments, one by one. 

Elgars Cello Concerto

Malmö Concert Hall

The Columbia University Orchestra with music director and conductor Jeffrey Milarsky returns to Symphony Space for their Fall concert: The Exploration of Sound and Space. The program opens with Lumière et pesanteur composed by Kaija Saariaho who tactfully explores simple melodies and turns them into exotic and malleable textures. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony #10 is a statement of past and future—desperately clinging to traditional romanticism while pressing toward the future. The concert concludes with Edward Elgar’s deeply personal work Enigma Variations which expresses his elegantly poetic and powerful personality through a series of dedicated variations.

The Columbia University Orchestra

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space

Embark on an emotional journey through two profoundly moving masterpieces. First, soloist Nicolas Altstaedt will bring Elgar’s Cello Concerto to life with powerful intensity, followed by a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, a piece brimming with nostalgia and inner drama. From Tchaikovsky’s turbulent passion to Elgar’s poignant melancholy, every note unveils the complexities of human anguish and fear.

Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony

Place des Arts

Edwardian gentleman, melancholy dreamer, wide-eyed romantic, orchestral showman: Britain’s greatest composer had many moods, and tonight Edward Gardner explores four of Elgar’s most personal (and most loved) masterpieces. From the musical sunburst of In the South to the deep sorrow of Sospiri and the windswept longing of Sea Pictures, this is an Elgar you might not expect. And if all you know of the Enigma Variations is the glorious ‘Nimrod’ – well, you’re about to make some new musical friends.

Edward Gardner conducts Elgar

Southbank Centre

Edwardian gentleman, melancholy dreamer, wide-eyed romantic, orchestral showman: Britain’s greatest composer had many moods, and tonight Edward Gardner explores four of Elgar’s most personal (and most loved) masterpieces.

Edward Gardner Conducts Elgar

‘In the evening twilight we went today to the palace were Queen Mary lived and loved’ wrote Felix Mendelssohn from Edinburgh in 1829, after visiting the ruins of Holyrood. ‘I think I have found there the beginning of my ‘Scottish’ Symphony.’ Though much has changed in 196 years, there’s still no more melodious – or poetic – musical portrait of Scotland as seen through the eyes of one of music’s supreme Romantics. Conductor Antony Hermus brings a fresh perspective to Mendelssohn’s highland fling, setting it against the sea spray and howling gales of Wagner’s great musical seascape, and joining the wonderful British contralto Jess Dandy in Elgar’s Sea Pictures – five songs filled with surging waves and surprisingly dark passions. Thought you knew Elgar? Think again…

Mendelssohn, Elgar and Wagner

Cadogan Hall 

It’s been twenty years since Aurora Orchestra tore up the rule book and made its name worldwide as a boundary-breaking ensemble, creating extraordinary musical experiences by incorporating drama and choreography and making even the most familiar classical works feel new-minted by performing them entirely from memory.

Aurora Orchestra

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

“In the evening twilight we went today to the palace were Queen Mary lived and loved,” wrote Felix Mendelssohn from Edinburgh in 1829, after visiting the ruins of Holyrood. “I think I have found there the beginning of my ‘Scottish’ Symphony.” Though much has changed in 196 years, there’s still no more melodious – or poetic – musical portrait of Scotland as seen through the eyes of one of music’s supreme Romantics.

Conductor Antony Hermus brings a fresh perspective to Mendelssohn’s highland fling, setting it against the sea spray and howling gales of Wagner’s great musical seascape, and joining the wonderful British contralto Jess Dandy in Elgar’s Sea Pictures – five songs filled with surging waves and surprisingly dark passions. Thought you knew Elgar? Think again…

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Orchester der Oper Zürich starts the concert season under a new, old name. After thirteen years as Philharmonia Zurich, the orchestra will return to its original moniker. The Philharmonic Concerts will once again alternate between the Opernhaus and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Kateryna Tereshchenko

Zurich Opera House

Elgar’s Enigma Variations contain one of the most fascinating mysteries in British classical music. Consisting of a theme and 14 variations—some dark and searching, others playful and assertive—the orchestral work builds upon a wistful theme that was written as a countermelody to an unknown piece that Elgar never shared. A century later, no one has cracked the code to the secret tune. Roberto González-Monjas opens the program with another set of variations, this time by Korngold, overflowing with golden harmonies and a folkish warmth.

Elgar’s Enigma

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Step into a world where science, art, and music converge in What Music Is, a transformative concert-theatre experience that explores the profound role music plays in our lives and the universe. Created by composer Bill Barclay, this immersive, family-friendly performance features a full orchestra, captivating spoken narrative, and stunning animations that bring to life the universal language of music.

What Music Is

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center

Join the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and the SoCal Chorale in Veterans Auditorium for an uplifting tribute honoring courage and unity.

Summon the Heroes - a Culver City Symphony Orchestra Veterans Day Concert

Veterans Memorial Park Culver City

The Syracuse Orchestra presents an evening of animal-themed music! We begin with Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals and 14 animals represented through the performance of pianists Aaron Wunsch and Giancarlo Llerena. Explore the Secret of the Wind and Birds from Tan Dun, who also composed the Academy Award-winning music for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. In Elgar’s Enigma Variations, listen for musical references that communicate personality traits of 14 of his friends (with a special musical homage to a friend’s beloved bulldog!)

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

The Oncenter Civic Center Theaters

Enigma Variations

Carson Center for the Performing Arts

Made in Vermont with The Moth Radio Hour

Bellows Falls Opera House

Southern Vermont Arts Center

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center

Three great composers have been brought together for this concert, who turn formative biographical stages – whether wrestling with death or saying goodbye to loved ones or working through role models – into music.

3rd Symphony Concert

Staatstheater Mainz

Embrace the comfort of home. Immerse yourself in the warm embrace of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, performed by Oshkosh’s own, virtuosic Dr. Katherine Decker. One of the world’s most beloved concertos, it will soothe your soul. Hear the profound emotion of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s cherished ballet Swan Lake. Journey through the enchanting soundscapes of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorfully exquisite Capriccio Espagnole. 

Comfort

Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra

Be transported through the centuries as the WASO Chorus performs an exquisite selection of sacred choral works from the height of the Renaissance to the modern day. The majestic power of two organs will fill St Mary’s Cathedral and ethereal voices will soar, showcasing the beauty and power of choral music.

WASO Chorus Sings: Sacred

Saint Mary's Cathedral

Start your Sunday morning off right with music that transports you to other worlds. The quiet, heartfelt sounds of Elgar's Cello Concerto, performed by the masterful cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, will invite you to take a moment to pause and reconnect with yourself. Under the inspired direction of chief conductor Jun Märkl, we'll weave a rich tapestry of warm, expressive melodies - music that moves you and encourages you to find your own meaning within its notes.

Elgar's Cello Concerto

Amare

Get ready for a grand tour of Europe with beloved travel expert Rick Steves as your guide. Rick Steves’ Symphonic Europe is a one-of-a-kind concert event that combines breathtaking symphonic music with stunning video from Rick’s acclaimed PBS travel series—projected above the orchestra in high-definition and synchronized live with the music.

From the noble beauty of Elgar and the rhapsodic sweep of Smetana’s The Moldau to the joyful grandeur of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and the iconic charm of Strauss’s Emperor Waltz, each piece in this globe-trotting program evokes a different place, tradition, or cultural landmark. Rick Steves appears on screen throughout the concert, sharing personal insights and stories that deepen the audience’s connection to each work and destination.

Rick Steves’ Symphonic Europe

Ford Community & Performing Arts Center

Music transcends time and place - and tonight, it'll take you on an unforgettable journey. The Residentie Orkest, with a full orchestra, will guide you through France, Spain and England, three countries connected by water and history. We will treat you to music brimming with emotion, from sweeping, picturesque scenes to deeply moving moments.

Elgar, Debussy & Ravel

On 21 October 1898, when Edward Elgar came home exhausted from work, after supper he sat down to the piano and began improvising. “What is that?” asked his wife Alice, who was captivated by the unknown motif. “Nothing,” he answered. “But it could be something.”

Czech Philharmonic • Evgeny Kissin

Rudolfinum

One of the greatest musicians of our lifetime, cellist Yo-Yo Ma reunites with his friend Cristian Mӑcelaru for a special one-night-only event. The program opens with two powerful, slashing chords from Brahms’ Tragic Overture that set the evening in motion. Then, Yo-Yo Ma brings his unmatched sensitivity and technical prowess to Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one of the most profound and emotionally charged works in the repertoire. As a final treat, Mӑcelaru gifts everyone a little piece of his native Romania with Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody.

Yo-yo Ma Plays Elgar

Cincinnati Music Hall

The Göppingen Youth Symphony Orchestra is one of the ensembles offered by the Göppingen Municipal Youth Music School. It has won prizes in numerous competitions and is regularly invited to take part in international festivals. At the IX New York International Music Festival in Carnegie Hall, the Göppingen Youth Orchestra was awarded the gold medal. The ensemble has been featured on radio and television on numerous occasions. The conductor has been Martin Gunkel, City Music Director since 1989. The ensemble aims to promote children and young people's musical development and offer them the opportunity to play sophisticated orchestral music through the development of traditional and modern orchestral works. Furthermore, national prizewinners of the "Jugend musiziert" competition are given the opportunity to perform as soloists in concerts. Concert tours and international youth exchanges have taken the Göppingen Youth Symphony Orchestra to Spain, France, Norway, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Latvia, Great Britain, and the USA on numerous occasions.

Göppingen Youth Symphony Orchestra

Mozarteum Foundation

Celebrate the beauty of the season with an afternoon of captivating music. The program features Sibelius' serene Nocturne from King Christian ll Suite, Elgar's romantic Salut d'Armour, and Saint-Saens' dazzling Introduction and rondo Capriccioso, featuring violinist Erica Mancuso. The charm of Brahms' Serenade No. 1 (1st movement) leads into the grand finale: Beethoven's vibrant Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major. Join us for an unforgettable concert filled with passion, elegance and energy.

Autumn Echoes

The Machine Shop

91st Anniversary Season

Cleveland Museum of Art

Enigma Variations: A Concert for Friendship

New England Conservatory of Music

Britten’s haunting Four Sea Interludes and Elgar’s elegant Cello Concerto set the stage for Beethoven’s Fifth — a sweeping emotional journey that begins with four of the most iconic notes in classical music. Conducted by Peter Oundjian, principal conductor and featuring violist Wanxinyi Huang ’24MM ’25MMA.

Britten, Elgar, and Beethoven’s Fifth

Yale University

Described by The Guardian as 'a handpicked supergroup', whose rare 'live performances are a special occasion', the orchestra will be joined for this performance by British tenor Laurence Kilsby and British horn player Christopher Parkes.

Sinfonia of London: Serenade

Barbican Centre

Andreas Brantelid is a Danish-Swedish cellist. He began playing the cello at the age of 4 with his father as a teacher, and had his debut concert with the Royal Danish Orchestra at the age of 14, playing Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto. In 2006, he won the Eurovision Song Contest for Young Soloists representing Sweden.

Andreas Brantelid & Christian Ihle Hadland

MantziusLive

Regularly voted one of Britain’s favourite pieces of classical music, Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia is at the heart of this fabulous programme of English music. John Wilson is in demand at the highest level across the globe, having conducted many of the world's finest orchestras over the past 30 years. Britten’s Serenade is one of his best loved works and the programme ends with the musical fireworks of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra. Add in lush music from two other fine English composers in Howell and Delius and we have a wonderful programme of truly gorgeous music.

John Wilson Conducts The Tallis Fantasia

Perth Concert Hall

Edward Elgar's Serenade in E minor, an early work characterized by chamber music, full of lyrical warmth and subtle melancholy, opens the program, with Tomasz Skweres' "Ligament" serving as its pivotal piece. This work not only mediates compositionally between the evening's pieces but also builds bridges between time, space, and sound. Reconceived each time, it takes up electroacoustically altered motifs from the surrounding works and combines them into a new whole. The classical concert framework is also disrupted spatially: sounds wander through the space, musicians enter the hall from unusual directions—the audience becomes part of a vibrant sonic process.

Thursday Concert No. 2

Volkshaus Jena

Riddles have fascinated humankind for centuries – and none more enduring than Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations. “The Enigma I will not explain,” he once wrote. Ever since, the world has been left guessing.

Capella Edina - Enigma

Usher Hall

Often it is simple joys like friendship and family that inspire great works of art. This is certainly the case with Elgar’s majestic First Symphony, led in these performances by SLSO Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin, who also presents music of his own for a compelling U.S. premiere. Emanuel Ax, Slatkin’s dear friend and one of the most accomplished pianists of our time, takes the solo spotlight for Mozart’s adventurous Piano Concerto No. 25, a masterpiece described by Ax as pure magic.

Slatkin and Ax

Powell Hall

In the antiphon "O Radiant Dawn," which serves as the theme for this Chorage program, Scottish composer James MacMillan moves from the delicate touch of a ray of light to the rich spectrum of colors of the ever-awakening morning. In MacMillan's "A New Song," a setting of Psalm 96, the choral voices, singing a new day to the Lord, build upon a sustained pedal point, which arguably expresses the life-giving foundation of the earth, where the "primordial light" dwells (heard in Mahler's setting). Organist Stephan Pollhammer unfolds the splendor of daybreak with Reger's powerful Choral Fantasia on the Morning Star.

Chorage® #2 A Radiant Dawn

Pfarrkirche Salzburg-Itzling

1st Symphony Concert – Neuruppin

Neuruppin Cultural Church

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt) will perform its double program at the Kronberg Festival in the Casals Forum, this time under the direction of Michael Sanderling. The first concert features Brahms's "Haydn Variations" and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, performed by the acclaimed violinist Midori. The second concert presents Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt as soloist, as well as Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4 as the main symphonic work.

Kronberg Festival

Casals Forum

See their striking pictures projected on the Royal Festival Hall’s huge screen, and get to know them through interview footage filmed at their home in Spitalfields, while the Philharmonia performs symphonic music exploring the themes of Sex, Money, Race, Religion, one of the key works in the exhibition.

Gilbert & George: Sex, Money, Race, Religion

Rimsky-Korsakov’s depiction of tales from One Thousand and One Nights features Artist in Residence and Concertmaster Nancy Zhou representing Scheherazade on her violin. Acclaimed SCS principal cellist Jonah Kim performs Elgar’s intensely moving Cello Concerto. The program opens with Mascagni’s breathtaking Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana.

Scheherazade

Civic Auditorium Santa Cruz

Watsonville High School

Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada’s 16th season leading the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra will rousingly begin, as usual, with The Star-Spangled Banner. The three other works on the program all had their premieres—in London, Vienna, and St. Petersburg—with the composer conducting. ECSO Instrumental Competition Winner Nicholas Hammel, a master’s candidate at Yale with degrees from the University of Texas and New England Conservatory, will perform Sir Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor, first performed in 1910. Johannes Brahms’s Haydn Variations, composed in 1873, is also known as the Saint Anthony Variations, since the eight variations are based on a “Chorale St. Antoni” from a piece for winds probably misattributed to Joseph Haydn. Fourteen years later, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his caprice on Spanish themes, Capriccio espagnol, a five-movement suite in which the strings at times imitate guitars. The fourth moment opens with five lively cadenzas, by the trumpets and horns, violin, flute, clarinet, and harp.

Opening Night 2025

The Garde Arts Center, Inc.

Prepare for a musical journey around the world with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra’s Songs of Travel, on October 4, 2025, at 8 pm at the D.F. Cook Recital Hall, MUN—presented by Quidi Vidi Brewery as part of the Sinfonia series and led by conductor Juliane Gallant.

Songs of Travel

Memorial University School of Music

Feel the power. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann leads an unforgettable season debut, opening with the iconic Fanfare for the Common Man, music so poignant, so gripping—so quintessentially American—it colors significant moments in our lives, from Olympic events to memorials. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomes the “technically flawless and deeply expressive” (The New York Times) cellist Alisa Weilerstein for an autumnal gem by Edward Elgar, and Stutzmann whips up some orchestral muscle for the opulent tone poem Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss.

Opening Weekend with Nathalie Stutzmann

The Woodruff Arts Center

In this special event, we celebrate Neal Gittleman and the Orchestra. The concert begins with three world premieres by area composers, longtime collaborators, and friends of the Philharmonic Austin Jaquith, Steven Winteregg, and Michael Schelle. Then, in an homage to those onstage and in the audience, Maestro Gittleman leads the orchestra in Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a gorgeous work which Elgar wrote in honor of his own friends.

With Friends, For Friends

Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center

Our season opens with a thrilling journey through myth, motion, and majesty. This all-orchestral program highlights the exceptional musicianship of the Dearborn Symphony, offering a vibrant and engaging experience for both longtime patrons and first-time guests.

We begin with Offenbach’s riotous Orpheus in the Underworld Overture, a cheeky romp through the realm of the gods, best known for its exhilarating can-can. Strauss’s Perpetuum Mobile keeps the energy spinning with its witty, whirlwind momentum — a musical joke that never runs out of steam.

Myth, Motion, and Majesty

To celebrate the anniversary of the "Wetzlar Master Concerts," the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Sanderling, will perform at the Wetzlar Town Hall. The program includes Johannes Brahms' "Haydn Variations," the profoundly lush Cello Concerto by the British composer Edward Elgar, and the Symphony No. 4 by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. The award-winning German cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt will be the soloist.

80 Years of Master Concerts Wetzlar

Stadthalle Wetzlar

Join Conductor Emeritus Peter Oundjian and Concertmaster Jonathan Crow for a spectacular performance of Mendelssohn’s melodic and tender Violin Concerto, alongside the mystery and intrigue of Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations. Joan Tower’s suite from her Concerto for Orchestra opens, shining a spotlight on the vivacity of the orchestra.

Jonathan Crow Plays Mendelssohn

David Pecaut Square

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

Our first Rush Hour concert of the season, conducted by Kahchun Wong and featuring Anna Lapwood, is packed full of musical treats – a perfect excuse to skip the traffic.

Rush Hour: Enigma Variations

The Bridgewater Hall

The Hallé’s first Rush Hour concert of the season, conducted by Kahchun Wong and featuring Anna Lapwood, is packed full of musical treats – a perfect excuse to skip the traffic. Max Richter’s breadth of work is celebrated for its seamless sonic blend of electronic and orchestral elements, making him one of the most streamed classical composers of all time. Launching Anna Lapwood as Hallé Featured Artist for the 2025/26 season, we hear the Manchester premiere of Cosmology, written for the superstar organist, sopranos and altos of the Hallé Choir, and the full forces of the orchestra followed by a luminescent solo performance of Olivia Belli’s Limina Luminis.

The Hallé – Enigma Variations

A majestic fanfare opens our new season, as the trumpets of Shostakovich’s 1954 Festive Overture herald five-minutes of joyful high spirits.  Its dutiful optimism, composed in just three days in celebration of the 37th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, would no doubt have felt forced to him, having been harried by the Soviet regime for several years. But it’s hard to resist the overture’s blistering momentum and the soaring nobility of its big tune. The mood of Elgar’s Cello Concerto could hardly be more different; his last major work is a poignant farewell to a world blown apart by the Great War. The acclaimed Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk is our soloist in this emotive dialogue between soloist and orchestra.

The Hallé

Britten & Elgar

Birmingham Symphony Hall

Malvern Theatres

Launching his second season as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Kahchun Wong is joined by Truls Mørk to perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a cornerstone of the instrument’s repertoire and, famously, the composer’s last completed work. Written in the aftermath of World War One, it is deeply emotional – never more so than in the heart-rending Adagio third movement. Despite this, there are still moments of hope and that recognisable Elgarian nobility; altogether, it remains among the composer’s most celebrated and well-loved works.

Opening Night: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Launching his second season as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Kahchun Wong is joined by acclaimed cellist Truls Mørk in this emotive opening to the 2025/26 season. Written in the aftermath of World War One, Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a cornerstone of the instrument’s repertoire and, famously, the composer’s last completed work, is deeply emotional – never more so than in the heart-rending Adagio third movement. Despite this, there are still moments of hope and that recognisable Elgarian nobility; altogether, it remains among the composer’s most celebrated and well-loved works. In striking contrast, we have Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and Rachmaninov’s exuberant Symphony No.2. The Festive Overture in particular, with its grandiose brass fanfare opening full of cymbal crashes, makes for a powerful start to the season.

The Hallé’s Opening Night – Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Tchaikovsky’s sixth and final symphony glows with light and passion, but also holds undercurrents of anxiety and uncertainty. In a letter to his brother Anatoly, Tchaikovsky wrote: “I am completely preoccupied with the new work and find it difficult to tear myself away from it. I believe it will be one of my best. I must finish it as soon as possible.” And he was right – it is a true symphonic masterpiece.

Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique

Stockholm City Hall

Join us on this thrilling voyage across two striking visions of the ocean paired with Sibelius’ sweeping Symphony No.2, as world-renowned Principal Guest Conductor Sir Donald Runnicles summons every ounce of passion from the talented musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Donald Runnicles conducts Sibelius and Wagner

Sydney Opera House

One of the most heartfelt musical dialogues ever written, the Sinfonia concertante shows Mozart at the pinnacle of his craft. As violinist, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider shares the spotlight with CSO Principal Viola Teng Li. Szeps-Znaider conducts Elgar’s stately, visionary Second Symphony, a work dedicated to the memory of England’s Edward VII.

Season Opening with Szeps-Znaider

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Québec-born organist Isabelle Demers returns to the Winspear stage with a thrilling program which will include her own transcriptions of orchestral music for organ. Hear Stravinsky’s magical Firebird Suite, John Williams epic Star Wars Suite, a virtuosic Paganini solo violin piece of music recomposed to be played only by her feet, plus many other exciting pieces of music. Experience a truly unique and mesmerizing performance, showcasing Isabelle’s incredible talent and skill on the organ.

Thrilling Transcriptions: From Paganini to John Williams

Winspear Centre

CMSCVA honors the 150-anniversary year of British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with a concert of his music and that of his friends and teachers. The program includes Coleridge-Taylor’s jubilant Nonet, and the ultimate friendship tribute piece, Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations, in an arrangement by CMSCVA Artistic Director James Wilson.

Circle Of Friends

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond

Prizewinner in Residence Anastasia Kobekina will crown her summer in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with a joint concert with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Chief Conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky. And when you say "cello," you ultimately have to say "Elgar"—thus, the cellist bids farewell to the festival summer and the audience in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the nostalgia and romantic brilliance of Edward Elgar's famous last great work.

Closing concert of the 2025 Festival Summer

Marienkirche, Neubrandenburg

Renowned for his charismatic personality and bold approach to music, the violinist will perform Aram Khachaturian's Violin Concerto . His brilliant technique and stage presence bring a particular intensity to this work, between lyrical passages and more percussive moments. The program will be completed by Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations , a subtle work that calls upon a great diversity of orchestral colors, while maintaining an aura of mystery, and Magic Simon by Finnish composer Johanna Ruotsalainen, winner of the 2024 Unanimous Prize in the chamber orchestra category. A concert that promises you a musical return rich in emotions, carried by the singular personality and immense talent of Nemanja Radulović.

Back to school with Nemanja Radulović

The Grammy-nominated VOCES8 is the world’s top-streaming classical vocal group. Touring extensively, the group performs repertoire from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary commissions and arrangements; versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression is central to the ensemble’s performance ethos. In their first Berwaldhallen appearance they will bring their exquisite harmonies from several musical genres and. The Swedish Radio Choir joins for some real choral classics!

VOCES8 feat. Radio Choir

SR Berwaldhallen

Elgar Schubert Wagner

Gasteig HP8

Vienna Music Society

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt) has been invited to perform two concerts at the prestigious George Enescu International Festival this season. Chief conductor Alain Altinoglu will present Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8 in the Sala Palatului, followed by Sibelius's Violin Concerto with Austrian violinist Julian Rachlin. The second evening's program features Elgar's Cello Concerto with French cellist Gautier Capuçon, as well as Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World").

George Enescu International Festival

The Palace Hall

Infusing “intoxicating grace” with “exceptional musicality” and “inconceivable virtuosity,” pianist Fei-Fei conjures a special and undeniable connectivity with her audiences that brings joy, passion, and deep musical understanding (Badische Neueste Nachrichten). Her engaging and endearing personality shines through in every note, word, and expression—whether performing as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician on world stages or as an advocate for community engagement.

Key Collaborations

Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center

Start the season with MSO in a vibrant encounter between our new Chief Conductor, Martyn Brabbins, and star violinist Bomsori – featuring music by Elgar, Korngold, and Bartók.

Season Opening - Bartók & Brabbins

The Tapiola Sinfonietta's autumn season opens on a romantic note. Elina Vähälä, one of our country's most internationally successful instrumental soloists, interprets Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, the immense popularity of which the composer tried in vain to achieve in his later concerts. Andrew Manze became known as one of the most respected baroque violinists of our time before taking up the baton with a completely different repertoire.

Composer

Edward Elgar

Events

Upcoming events

30 - 31 Dec, 2025

New Year's Gala 2025 · Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Jan 11, 2026

Altstaedt & Chan · Opernhaus Zürich

Jan 14, 2026

Elgar’s Second Symphony · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Jan 15, 2026

Strauss and Elgar · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Jan 18, 2026

2nd Chamber Concert / Kaleidoscope · Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Past events

18 - 21 Dec, 2025

Christmas Concert · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

14 - 15 Dec, 2025

Ravel, Brahms, Elgar | Finnegan Downie Dear · Bremer Philharmoniker

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Composer

Edward Elgar

Events

Upcoming events

30 - 31 Dec, 2025

New Year's Gala 2025 · Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Jan 11, 2026

Altstaedt & Chan · Opernhaus Zürich

Jan 14, 2026

​​Elgar’s Second Symphony · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Jan 15, 2026

Strauss and Elgar · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Jan 18, 2026

2nd Chamber Concert / Kaleidoscope · Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Past events

18 - 21 Dec, 2025

Christmas Concert · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

14 - 15 Dec, 2025

Ravel, Brahms, Elgar | Finnegan Downie Dear · Bremer Philharmoniker

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Elgar’s Second Symphony · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra