One theme – endlessly talked about – and fourteen variations on it. Each variation was the result of a parlour game between Elgar and his wife, Alice. He’d played the theme to her, which he described ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jon Robertson conducted one of his favorite pieces of music Saturday night in his next-to-the-last concert as music director of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. That favorite was Edward Elgar’s ...

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 ...

Join the National Symphony Orchestra at Cadogan Hall for the grand finale of its 2026 season, featuring Elgar's much-loved Enigma Variations, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto performed by acclaimed ...

Three years ago Roger Norrington outraged traditionalists by conducting the SWR Radio orchestra at the Proms in a performance of Elgar's First Symphony in which the strings used no vibrato whatsoever.

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 ...