What: The fourth and final performance of the season will feature works from Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar and Joseph Haydn. When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

When: Next performance is “Schubert II: Soiree Musicale” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; festival continues through Aug. 24 Where: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La ...

English composer Edward Elgar completed three chamber works in the English countryside at the secluded cottage "Brinkwells" in West Sussex found by his wife Alice. Here he completed his Violin Sonata, ...

Edward Elgar said he learned to write for strings by listening to the music of Handel. Elgar based his Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra on Handel's concerto grosso ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...