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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Composer of the Week: Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Episode 3: Enigma 'Friends pictured within'

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Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Episode 3

Episode 3: Enigma 'Friends pictured within'

Enigma 'Friends pictured within'

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Enigma 'Friends pictured within'

Donald Macleod focuses on the friends pictured within Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Donald Macleod focuses on some of Elgar's male companions and the friends pictured within his ever-popular Enigma Variations.

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Edward Elgar through the lens of his muses - his family, his love interests, and some of his greatest friends. In today's programme, Donald focuses on some of Elgar's male companions and the friends pictured within his ever-popular Enigma Variations

Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sospiri
Vienna Philharmonic
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Deep in my soul, Op.53 No.2
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (director)

Enigma Variations
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta (conductor)


Producer: Sam Phillips.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Edward Elgar through the lens of his muses

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Edward Elgar through the lens of his muses - his family, his love interests, and some of his greatest friends

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