Elgar's Tenth Muse - The Life of an English Composer

Sir Edward Elgar: JAMES FOX
Lady Elgar: FAITH BROOK
Jelly d Aranyi: SELMA ALISPAHIC
Billy Reed: RUPERT FRAZER

Featuring NATALIE CLEIN playing the Adagio from Elgar s Cello Concerto, Op. 85
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Conducted by ANDREW DAVIS

Soundtrack includes performance by MAXIM VENGEROV of part of Elgar s Violin Sonata, Op. 82

Elgar s Tenth Muse, shot on location in London and Sussex, dramatises a moving moment in the life of English composer, Sir Edward Elgar. It is set in 1919, with Elgar tormented by self-doubt and convinced he would never write again. It was then that he heard the brilliant, Hungarian violinist Jelly d Aranyi, an outstanding musician, and beautiful young lady. Elgar was entranced by her playing and called her his darling tenth muse . Their differences formed the basis of a brief but poignant relationship