In all of my years of blogging, I’ve never really written about this topic! Q: Was ever a musical depiction of friendship so beautifully stated and poignantly composed as the Nimrod variation from Elgar’s Enigma Variations?A: Nope. Elgar’s Variations on an original theme, Op. 36, are among my desert island favorites. The BBC Symphony performedContinue reading “Nimrod”
