Elgar's Enigma Variations is a sublime piece of musical portraiture, developing the enigmatic melody that gives the work its title into 13 sketches of the composer's friends, signed off with a robust ...

Martyn Brabbins follows fine, firmly unsentimental, bracingly muscular performances of two of Elgar’s best known orchestral works – the Enigma Variations and the concert overture In the South – with ...

In 2007, Andrew Davis and the Philharmonia embarked on a nationwide tour to mark the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth. These performances stem from those concerts: the Enigma Variations was recorded ...

Pop hitmaker Ed Sheeran says his new album is inspired by his 20th century musical namesake, Edward Elgar. Around the year 1900, Elgar wrote to his publisher Jaeger – known in his musical sketch as ...

In the South, 'Alassio' Martyn Brabbins, Conductor Edward Elgar, Composer BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Variations on an Original Theme, 'Enigma' Martyn Brabbins, Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony ...

Variations on an Original Theme, 'Enigma' Andrew Litton, Conductor Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Elgar, Composer (The) Planets Gustav Holst, Composer Andrew Litton, Conductor Bergen ...

Elgar’s Enigma Variations is one of the greatest pieces of the 19th century – and this is the true story about how it came about. On 21 October 1898, Edward Elgar returned to his wife and their home ...

Blazing, triumphant horns, pulsating strings, soaring melodies: it has to be Richard Strauss. But no - this is Elgar, his tone poem In the South. Symphonic variations full of character, variety and ...

Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's "Enigma Variations", a series of 13 musical sketches of the composer's friends which concludes with a representation of Elgar himself. The theme of the variations was ...

Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Enigma Variations, a series of 13 musical sketches of the composer's friends which concludes with a representation of the composer himself. Show more Stephen Johnson ...