His range is so Handelian that he can give the people a universal melody or march with as sure a hand as he can give the Philharmonic Society a symphonic adagio, such as has not been given since Beethoven died.

Play it like something you hear down by the river.

The aggressive Edwardian prosperity that lends so comfortable a background to Elgar's finales is now as strange to us as the England that produced Greensleeves…

People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly …