Julia Fischer plays Elgar | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Forget the tweeds, forget the moustache and forget the Pomp and Circumstance. Elgar was a dreamer, a daredevil and a desperate Romantic, and it’s all right there in his Violin Concerto: music of raw emotions and tender secrets, inspired by an impossible love. It demands a soloist and a conductor who aren’t afraid to bare their souls: so what better way for Julia Fischer to end her LPO residency than in partnership with Vladimir Jurowski? And then, travel to the Carpathian Mountains with the stirring Second Symphony by Elgar’s Romanian contemporary George Enescu. Vladimir Jurowski is passionate about this music, and you’ll hear why.