Alisa Weilerstein Plays the Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor

Alisa Weilerstein and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, play the Elgar Concerto in E minor at Bravo! Vail Music Festival. Learn more: https://www.bravovail.org/

Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor is his last major work and serves to summarize his disillusion over both the calamities of World War I and to presage the unhappiness of his last years as his wife's health began to fail and his beloved Edwardian world began to draw to a close. The Concerto's four movements only suggest traditional models in their epigrammatic concentration. The first is a ternary structure (A-B-A), commencing after an opening recitative.

Music:
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Adagio: Moderato (excerpt)