Booking for the new 2025/26 season opens for subscribers of all six concerts on Wednesday 23 April 2025 at 10am with a 25% series discount. Bookings during this period can be made via the Box Office in person or by telephone only.

General booking opens the following week, on Tuesday 29 April at 10am.

Repertoire

Elgar Sospiri (5’)
Elgar Cello Concerto (30’)
Elgar Enigma Variations (32’)

Artists

Edward Gardner* conductor
Jan Volger cello

There’s only one Edward Elgar – or is there? For the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, Elgar is more than just a national institution with a walrus moustache. He’s the haunted, autumnal poet of the Cello Concerto (composed among the Sussex Downs); he’s a wit, a statesman, a romantic and – above all – he’s the composer who poured out his soul in ‘Nimrod’, the unforgettable centrepiece of the Enigma Variations. You’ll hear all this and much more when we play both of these much-loved classics, with the great Jan Vogler – a legend among cellists – making a rare Eastbourne appearance.