Elgar/ BBC Concert Orchestra - Ecce Sacerdos Magnus / Music for Chorus & Orch AEC Video performed here with his wife

performed here with his wife and fellow pianist

His career was launched following winning of the first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946

fleeting pleasures and opaque futures

as well as the tale of the sorceress Alcina

Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

Elgar/ BBC Concert Orchestra - Ecce Sacerdos Magnus / Music for Chorus & Orch AEC Video performed here with his wifeThe growing genius of a titan of English music comes vividly into focus in a stunning collection of Edward Elgar's music for chorus and orchestra from the Brighton Festival Chorus and BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth. The voice was at the center of Elgar's musical life as a child, and it was to play a defining role in his own compositions. Spanning 26 years from the imposing setting of Ecce sacerdos magnus ('Behold the great