
Michael Kennedy: Portrait of Elgar, third edition
Part I: Ascent 1857 - 1898
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Prelude
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Wand of youth
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Apprentice
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Retreat from London
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Recognition
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Part II: Summit 1899 - 1913
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"Variations" and the "Friends pictured within"
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"Gerontius": Disaster and triumph
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Friends and relations
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Nobilmente
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Unfinished trilogy
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Full orchestra
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Part III: Decline 1914 - 1934
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War
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Submission
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Finale
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Coda
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Appendix:
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Chronological list of works
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Quotations on "The music makers", opus 69
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Select bibliography
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Recordings conducted by Elgar
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Published by Oxford University Press as a Clarendon Paperback in 1996.
ISBN 0 19 816365 7. Total 393 pages
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