Elgar Enigma Variations

Elgar's Variations for Orchestra, commonly known as the 'Enigma' Variations, marked an epoch both in his career, and in the renaissance of English music at the turn of the century. First performed in 1899 under Hans Richter, the work became his passport to national fame and international success. From the first it intrigued listeners to know why it was called 'enigma', and who were the 'friends pictured within', to whom the work is dedicated. Appearing in the centenary year of the work's composition, this book elucidates what is known, and what has been said about the work and the enigma, and directs future listeners to what matters most: the inspired qualities of the music.

From André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the OscarTM for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes “a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable” (Times Literary Supplement). André Aciman, hailed as a writer of “fiction at its most supremely interesting” (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well. In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want to offer only what we crave from them. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we’ve always known we were.

Novello presents a choral setting of Edward Elgar's 'Nimrod' from the Enigma Variations for SSAATTBB Choir, as arranged by John Cameron. This single pieces includes, as well as eight vocal lines, a piano score accompaniment for use in rehearsals.

In this book the Classical Music Collection presents the sheet music for Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op.36 By Edward Elgar composed in 1899. In 15 sections: Theme (Andante), Variation I. L'istesso tempo "C.A.E.", Variation II. Allegro "H.D.S-P.", Variation III. Allegretto "R.B.T.", Variation IV. Allegro di molto "W.M.B.", Variation V. Moderato "R.P.A.", Variation VI. Andantino "Ysobel", Variation VII. Presto "Troyte", Variation VIII. Allegretto "W.N.", Variation IX. Adagio "Nimrod", Variation X. Intermezzo: Allegretto "Dorabella", Variation XI. Allegro di molto "G.R.S.", Variation XII. Andante "B.G.N.", Variation XIII. Romanza: Moderato "* * *", Variation XIV. Finale: Allegro Presto "E.D.U."

In this book the Classical Music Collection presents the sheet music for 'Enigma' Variations - Op.37 By Edward Elgar. Comprising of 15 pieces. A fantastic edition to the repertoire of anyone interested in Elgar's Musical compositions.