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Black and white photograph of Elgar conducting a symphony orchestra with Beatrice Harrison on Cello recording into early microphones

© Hulton Getty

Composer Edward Elgar conducting the Adagio of his Cello Concerto for an HMV recording using the acoustic process with Beatrice Harrison as soloist, 16 November 1920

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150402/012