Selections from Enigma Variations

Description

8 Selections from Enigma Variations
Composed by Edward Elgar
Arranged for Flute Choir by Shaul Ben-Meir
Published by Megido Music Publications
Includes score and parts

Instrumentation:
6 Flutes (Flute 2 doubles on piccolo)
2 Alto Flutes
Bass Flute
Contrabass flute

The Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) of Edward Elgar is an orchestral work consisting of an original theme with fourteen variations was composed in between 1898 and 1899. The work is dedicated to “my friends pictured within,” with each variation being a musical sketch of one of his circle of close acquaintances.

Movements:  Theme, Variation I (C.A.B.), Variation II (H.D.S-P.), Variation III (R.B.T.), Variation IV (W.M.B.), Variation VIII (W.N.), Variation IX (Nimrod), Variation X (Dorabella), and Variation XI (G.R.S.).

 

Click icon to listen to a clip of Theme
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation I “C.A.E.”
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation II “H.D.S.-P”
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation III “R.B.T.”

Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation IV “W.M.B.”
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation V “W.N.”
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation VI “Nimrod”
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation VII “Dorabella”
Click icon to listen to a clip of Variation VIII “G.R.S.”