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Wrapped in a RiddleNew York Times (blog)Sir Edward Elgar wrote “The Enigma Variations” between 1898-1899 as a musical cryptogram, affectionately portraying one of his close friends in each of the 14 Variations. The wonderful thing about this piece is not the identities of the friends ...

Philharmonic goes BritTimes of MaltaOrchestra leader Marcelline Agius opens the evening with Vaughan William's The Lark Ascending. Soprano Gillian Zammit follows as soloist in Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations and Elgar's monumental Enigma Variations will bring the evening to a close.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra takes a season-ending bow Thursday evening (video)New Haven RegisterBoughton and his musicians will present Elgar's Enigma, an ambitious program of short pieces, climaxed by Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, op. 36, at Woolsey Hall. The climactic piece is one of the composer's grandest works, appreciated even more so ...and more »

Composer Jonathan Dove to write portrait in music to orderThe GuardianWhen Edward Elgar composed his Enigma Variations, he created lasting musical portraits of several of the people he was close to. Picking out themes to describe the anonymous characters of Nimrod or Dorabella, he dedicated it to "my friends pictured ...and more »

Soloist Alexander Ramm impresses with JPOArtslink.co.za News (press release)Another surprise of the evening is the conductor's rather refreshingly new approach to Elgar's Enigma Variations, Opus 36. This one is very refined, with orchestral textures liquid and inner detail exposed in such a way that one hears detail you've ...