BBC Philharmonic - Cracking Elgar’s Enigma Code 

‘Nimrod’, one of music’s most endearing tributes, lies at the heart of the ‘Enigma’ Variations, and there are many more touching portraits to unveil here. Each movement dedicated to in his own words ‘his friends pictured within’. Edward Elgar loved cryptic codes and he hid one in his most famous work – it is still to be cracked even to this day. In Swansong, Arvo Pärt creates a mesmerising anthem to the 19th century priest and scholar, Cardinal ...