The concerto was Elgar's last great popular success. Of his later large-scale works neither the Second Symphony nor "Falstaff" nor the Cello Concerto achieved the immediate popularity of the First Symphony or this concerto. Elgar remained particularly fond of the work. His friend Charles Sanford Terry recalled "I have never heard Elgar "speak" of the "personal" note in his music except in regard to the concerto, and of it I heard him say more than once, 'I love it'." Elgar told Ivor Atkins that he would like the "nobilmente" theme in the "andante" inscribed on his tomb.