Enigma Variations

This concert features Elgar's Enigma Variations. Completed in 1899 and arguably Elgar’s finest work, it is composed of a series of musical portraits based on friends and family of Elgar. His wife, Caroline Alice Elgar, inspired the First Variation; the Eighth Variation was meant for a matron of the arts, Winifred Norbury, who had a … Continue Reading ››