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Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's "Enigma Variations", a series of 13 musical sketches of the composer's friends which concludes with a representation of Elgar himself. The theme of the variations was ...

After a ten year absence, Maestro Pinchas Zukerman returned to the Beijing Music Festival with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra to conduct a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Egmont, Op.84 and ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Terry Teachout finds some variations on an old enigma In England, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is widely regarded as a great composer, ...