Performance

Enigma Variations

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Edward Elgar’s *Enigma Variations* is a set of fourteen orchestral portraits built on a single theme, written at the turn of the 20th century as a private circle of friends becomes public music. First heard in 1899, it helped place Elgar in the international repertory and has remained a fixture for major orchestras, including in New York. At David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic pairs it with Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto, featuring Nikolaj Szeps‑Znaider. Its lasting pull is structural: character pieces that still cohere as one argument.