Elgar and Dvořák

Mezzo Sasha Cooke compares Elgar’s Sea Pictures to entering a painting by J.M.W. Turner: ‘They are very dark and murky, but beautiful with radiant, shimmering light.’ They’ll ease you into Dvořák’s nature-infused Symphony No. 8, composed when one of his biggest fans, Johannes Brahms, said that Dvořák’s head was ‘full of ideas.’