Elgar's variations show how music can convey personality, an event, a memory or a moment in time - but also how the same piece of music can be changed slightly and then take on a different character ...

Here's a musical riddle that has kept people guessing for over a century. English composer Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, ('Enigma') op. 36 is one of England's most beloved musical ...

Elgar's variations show how music can convey personality, an event, a memory or a moment in time - but also how the same piece of music can be changed slightly and then take on a different character ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bob Padgett's notes on Elgar's Enigma Variations . The Texas musician continues to search for hidden clues in the British composer's famous piece. Here's a musical riddle that has kept people guessing ...

Elgar’s Enigma Variations is one of the greatest pieces of the 19th century – but people have puzzled over its hidden theme for years. In 1899, Sir Edward Elgar wrote his beautiful Enigma Variations, ...

It is the musical puzzle that has seen Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, the works of Shakespeare and even the mathematical formula for Pi suggested as possible answers. But now a respected art critic has ...

Cockaigne, 'In London Town' Thomas Beecham, Conductor Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Elgar, Composer Variations on an Original Theme, 'Enigma' Edward Elgar, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ...