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Soul Music: Series 1: Elgar's Cello Concerto

Elgar's Cello Concerto

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Series 1, Elgar's Cello Concerto

Julian Lloyd Webber, Michael Kennedy and Tim Dinsley reflect on the impact of Elgar.

Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, Michael Kennedy and Tim Dinsley reflect on the special impact of Elgar's piece of music. From November 2000.

Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks about what it's like to play this work, and Tim Dinsley shares the way in which he and his daughter Jo used this music to support them as she was dying. And Michael Kennedy discusses why this piece has such an impact on people. 

Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks. 

Producer: Rosie Boulton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.

Soul Music: Series 1

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