As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto ...

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Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Benedetti’s tone and decisiveness is made for this work, and she brings an understated edge to the added miniatures, too The violin was Edward Elgar’s instrument, and when he was composing he thought ...

James MacMillan’s evocative Second Violin Concerto was premiered by Nicola Benedetti and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a committed and accomplished performance James MacMillan’s relationship with ...

Mario Benedetti, a prolific Uruguayan writer whose novels and poems reflect the idiosyncrasies of Montevideo's middle class and a social commitment forged by years in exile from a military ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Nicola Benedetti scans the menu, unsure of what to order. The Scottish violinist had some trouble choosing a venue ...

For the violinist Nicola Benedetti, doing the laundry is a luxury. ‘I’m back for two whole days which, for me, is like an eternity,’ she shouts over the hysterical whirring of the spin dryer in the ...