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 ...

Variations on an Original Theme, 'Enigma' Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis, Conductor Edward Elgar, Composer Symphony No. 6 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Colin Davis, Conductor ...

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 ...

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 ...

The almost forgotten original finale of one of Elgar's best-known works has finally been recorded, more than a century after its first performance. Why the piece was never recorded is one of the ...

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 ...

If you still can’t get the marvelous sounds of Elgar’s Enigma Variations out of your head after the brilliant performance conducted by Peter Oundjian with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra last week, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. From a single melody, Elgar cleverly created 14 different variations capturing ...