Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations - Nimrod | Leonard Bernstein

IX Nimrod (Adagio) | Enigma Variations, Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra Op. 36, “Enigma“‏, Sir Edward Elgar, 1899. Complete Enigma Variations (live recording) Other Videos: 1. Variation IX. “Nimrod“ piano transcription 2. Variation IX. “Nimrod“ piano transcription 3. Enigma Variations transcription on Piano Playlist: It was Elgar’s Enigma Variations that made his name as a composer, at the age of forty-two. Today, Enigma is widely seen as the first real musical masterpiece to emerge in Britain since the dead of Henry Purcell two centuries earlier. In the manuscript score the word “Enigma“ is written over the original theme, with its contrasted strains of major and minor. Elgar later said that this theme r