Elgar: Enigma Variations
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Enigma I Will Not Explain
The principal theme never appears, the chief character is never on the stage. There are a few main theories and I'll leave it to you to find them and test them out yourself. The fun of the enigma in the enigma variations is in the mystery itself. It's really an incredible gift that Elgar gave here,. giving his friends a place in history that they surely would not have had without him.
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