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The unstated Principal Theme to 'Nimrod' is ‘Ein feste Burg’ (A Mighty Fortress) by Martin Luther. To learn more about this intriguing discovery, visit enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot.com/2010/09/variation-ix-nimrod-with-ein-feste-burg.html
Sirpadgett 3 weeks ago
I'll preface this by saying I'm a huge fan of Solti's recordings. The tempo was a little bright overall for my taste, but excellent performance nonetheless.
Euphman 1 month ago
Beautiful
loeve1 3 months ago
Elgar, Solti, Enigma Variations: it doesn't get any better than this.
lamazopa21 3 months ago
Solti was the most magnetic and passionate, indeed the greatest, post-war conductor - I love everything he recorded and the concerts and operas conducted by him were the most wonderful I ever went to.
istvan283 4 months ago
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Where are these films or videos available?
MrDonaldmaddog 5 months ago
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The secret melody to Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations is 'Ein feste Burg' (A Mighty Fortress) by Martin Luther. This famous theme is quoted in the works of Elgar's favorite composers: J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, and Wagner. To learn more about this intriguing discovery, visit enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot.com
Sirpadgett 6 months ago
garryph: WELL, you know what? You can have whatever "favorite" conductor you wish, and you have the liberty to check out of the hall during a performance if it doesn't please you. Nobody forces you to submit your precious time towards listening to what you do not like. But even you might acknowledge that others might not see it the way you do, and most of them won't whine and groan about it if it doesn't appeal to them in all the interpretive detail. Solti was a GREAT interpreter like it or not
smartingamerica 9 months ago
garryph: WELL, you know what? You can have whatever "favorite" conductor you wish, and you have the liberty to check out of the hall during a performance if it doesn't please you. Nobody forces you to submit your precious time towards listening to what you do not like. But even you might acknowledge that others might not see it the way you do, and most of them won't whine and groan about it if it doesn't appeal to them in all the interpretive details as you do.
smartingamerica 9 months ago
I think it is a noble rendition, and as usual: beautiful phrasing by Solti...
WagnerMahler 11 months ago
Well, at least he plays it at something approaching the correct speed! But I have never forgiven Solti for his performance of Elgar's Second Symphony in the 1970s (probably the same as on this dvd) where he could not bring himself to end the concert quietly - as the Symphony does - but had to follow it with the Tannhauser overture!! (I fled the hall, just in time!). Even here, striving for effect, it is more Solti than Elgar. Not my favourite conductor except perhaps in Wagner's Ring!
garryph 1 year ago
@garryph I found ur comments about Elgars 2nd symphony conducted by solti very interesting. I have a recording of him with the LPO and its an absolute car crash of a performance!!! The whole symphony is played at absolute break neck speed - almost as if " lets just get this over with as quickly as possible. I'm afraid EVERYTHING I have ever listened to by solti has been a huge disapointment- Nimrod included
scabycat 5 months ago