I remember hearing this for the first time when I was 12 years old. My dad played it in the car on a beautiful summers day while we drove through the Kent countryside to watch a local cricket game. I can still see the fields and the trees glowing in the sun and still remember feeling proud of our country. Its such an important memory to me. Everytime I hear it, It just blows me away. I love all kinds of music but this is just the greatest.
on a clear day I can see Elgar's beloved Malverns on the horizon from the village one mile from my house. Patriotic stirrings overwhelm when I hear Nimrod.
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@OffGrid9 What are you talking about? Is this an attempt to make a joke? Modernism is nothing and I have the right to say whenever I want. If you are a slave of today’s ideology it is your problem.
@Rickriquinho You misunderstood me. I love music of almost all varieties: classical, popular, old, new, rock, folk, country, etc. I love Elgar, but I also think some modernist works are good. I believe you are wrong when you say all modernist music is nothing...but you're entitled to your opinion. That is what my 1st comment said: YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO YOUR OPINION. My anger was only directed at the person who labeled your post as "spam". I was criticizing HIM, not you. Happy New Year
One of my all-time favorite classical pieces. Funny how so many people react to this piece, myself included. I feel the sorrow very very deeply, but I also hear a submission to hope throughout this entire piece. Delicate yet so full of raw transparent emotion. Music does much better than words when it comes to expressing some things.
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@deecee10000 You hear nothing but your own worthless shit you vermin. How dare you claim to understand this beautiful piece. You are shit. Fuck you. You should have your throat cut.
Solemnly beautiful. Elgar was the last of the true English romantic composers. This piece was used in Ken Burns' "The War" to stunning effect. It was the perfect expression of sorrow and solemnity in that film. Beautiful performance here. This ranks as one of my favorite pieces of English romantic classical music. Too bad Elgar came to recognition so late in his life, but glad he finally did. It was more than well deserved for such an eminent composer of his skill.
Is it any wonder you can't get a proper job with language like that!!!!
And it was Labour who introduced high fees, it wass Labour who sold our Gold, It was Labour who put us in this pickle.
T is for Tory - T is for T Rex (who was a 70's Glam-rocker who sang Hot Love and Jeepster amongst many others. Put that in your Dizzy Rascal pipe and smoke it!!!)
the only reason labour had to do that was because of what the torries did.
HAHA a proper job, oh i'm sorry, because i'm not sitting behind a desk churning out spread sheets and having an affair with my secretary its not proper. my mistake.
Basically the rich get richer, while i'm freeing my balls off every day on the railway to make sure they can get home and live their suburban nightmares.
Also, mate dizzy rascal is shit, its all about Creedence clearwater revival!
Would this be the same railway that the Tories privatised making MILLIONS of WORKING CLASS people rich with very reasonable share options whilst still maintaining a stronghold on the whole regulated network.
Also the same railways that Labour decreased spending on (approx 25 percent) yet increasing fares by over 45 percent in 5 years?
Just wonderring.....................................
Congratulations the only thing you could pick fault with was my profession. Prices of rail travel have increased, but that has nothing to do with infrastructure maintenance, i don't work for a train operating company who set the prices of rail travel. Knob.
Would you work for the same police force who couldn't contain a few looters and opportunists in the summer?
see the problem with youths like you is there is no respect. I have shown you nothing but respect yet your resort to swearing and infantile name calling.
You have now bored me so I shall not respond any further.
name calling? what? all i can say to that is the truth hurts doesn't it!
you know you've been beaten and you cant take it!
i'm taking that as a win for the general public, the working classes, labour and every upstanding gentlemen who has been scrutinized by the police force for nothing at all, while rapists and murders run riot on our streets.
also after looking at your profile page, it would seem you're very unpopular, i like that a lot. it would seem you get a little to big for your boots quite a lot.
also i'm not a youth, i live in a down-trodden area, but i'm not part of the whole gang culture. you presume far too much and that is your biggest downfall. Checkmate sir.
10 things to make you proud to be British (in no order( 1. Winston Churchill 2. Torvill and Dean 3. Geoff Hurst's Hat-trick 4. Elgar's Nimrod 5. David Bowie 6. The Jaguar E Type 7. James Bond 8. Margaret Thatcher 9. The way we have adopted Rolf Harris 10. Lady Di. Please feel free to add your own top 10. X
@policemanandrew Margret Thatcher makes you proud to be British??? sort your life out, she crippled this country, very much the same way the current government is now. She destroyed the working classes, what this country was built on, destroying the unions that protect the blue collar worker and ripping apart whole communities that had been there since the industrial revolution. Oh yeah, shes what makes me get up every morning and go, ahhhhhh, its good to be british!
No disrespect, but if you (or more likely your parents) adhered to Thatcherism, you would not be so depressed and wake up everyday thinking the world owes you a living. This country was NOT built on working classes it was built on Worldwide imperialism and a strong stoic backbone. mCheck your history dear boy.
L is for Labour - L is for Lice (as Harry Enfield once said!!)
I don't think the world owes me a living. i have 3 A's at a-level, but cannot afford to go to university. i am therefore on an apprenticeship , where i'm at the bottom of the barrel grafting everyday. i don't take anything for granted. Also world-wide imperialism, which was created by the working classes, i don't remember Isambard Kingdom-brunnel grafting on the SS Great Britain, do you?
C is for conservative, its also for cunt (as Eddyvanjones said)
What in the world does criticizing the government have to do with this piece, especially the race part stepheng 1483. This music unifies us all in spirit.
i'm 9 billion years and one second old and i cry until i laugh when i think about laughing at how sadly funny this non-composition never always isn't.
It's amazing how many people out there can't see by now that our governments want to outnumber the white race in our own countries and race mix us out of existence. With millions of unemployed they are still allowing half a million Africans and Asians into our country every single year. Hello idiots, can't you see this makes no sense whatsoever? Can't you see our "leaders" blatantly don't work for our people? It could hardly be any more obvious by now.
I sit here, tears streaming down my cheeks. I cannot help myself; it's always been this way. It's probably been mentioned here before, but Elgar's Enigma Variations were written about his friends - people he knew, and "Nimrod", the mighty hunter was based on his friend, August Jaeger. Many of you will recognize that Jaeger in German means "hunter", and the piece portrays the nobility and majesty of Elgar's friend.
I'm 10 months old. I can't even speak yet. Paradoxically, I can't even read or write yet. Every time I hear this composition I think of beautiful existential thoughts .. I get carried to a new plane where there is no war, no hate. Just love, forgiveness. I try and tell my mum.. but she doesn't understand. She just stuffs another bottle of milk in my mouth. Sometimes I wonder... is this everything? Is this existance in pure sonic form. .... ?
12 years old and cry at this tune.........your human and yourr not the only one who cries at this haunting tune. You are the better person to admit to this well done.
I was at the Cenotaph in London today and I heard the military bands play this. I have never felt such pride and humility as I did when the strains of this carried through the air. We owe so much to those that died, and those who were left.
after our remembrance day asembly at bradford grammer school, the organ played this, and its been stuck on my mind since. this is one of the best. long live nimrod. rip the vetrans and all the soldiers who have died in the wars! rip....
This past weekend, I performed this along with the other variations (minus Dorabella); I could have sworn my conductor almost broke down on stage. I absolutely adore this entire piece, I wish to play it many more times within my life
There was recently a documentary on BBC about Elgar that explained the origins of 'Nimrod'. This piece of music was written for his closest friend August Jaeger and through sound explains just how close they were. It is also played every year on Remembrance Sunday here in the UK.
I love this piece of music and I cannot think of a more emotional or fitting tribute to all those who have given their lives for this Country in all conflicts. It's a debt we will always owe and I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear every Rememberance Day when I hear 'Nimrod' and watch the poppies fall to the floor.
I love this piece of music and I cannot of a more emotional or fitting tribute to all those who have given their lives for this Country in all conflicts. It's a debt we will always owe and I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear every Rememberance Day when I hear 'Nimrod' and watch the poppies fall to the floor.
Its not a strange thing to cry over music! I do that several times a week - just so I still know I am human with a heart thats beats! Never ever have music touched us with such an mindblowing effects as in the forceful power of Elgar and his "Enigma Variations"! It contains the essence of everything music is ever about and ever gonna be about - it makes us all feel the grandour of life itself!
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
i wish, for just one day,that the politicos & business magnates; and all the rich,powerful and selfish people around the globe, would hear a piece like this, call to their souls and give them cause to do something decent...
The secret melody to Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations is 'Ein feste Burg' (A Mighty Fortress) by Martin Luther. There are various musical ciphers embedded in the Variations confirming the identities of both the covert Principal Theme and the hidden Friend for Variation XIII. To learn more about these intriguing discoveries, visit enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot.com
it really cracks me up when people say "justin beiber is real music, Beehtoven, Mozart, Elgar, all they had wad amazingly composed music, while Justin Beiber has....... about one chord reapetadly played over and over again. Now that's the epitome of music."
We all have our individual opinions as well as our own musical education. In addition, some of us read a lot, and find out about the composer's life as well as the conductor's life. We can also read about the history of the orchestra. Since I'm a retired music teacher I do all this kind of reading which makes for me, the music a whole lot more interesting...like it or not. In this case, I happen to LOVE this piece, the conductor,composer and the entire orchestra's rendition of this MARVEL!
I always remember this being played on Rememberance Sunday. "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few ".Looking at our country today it's sad to see what it has become. Our values, our traditions, our beliefs, not allowed or not Politically Correct. Our grandfathers and great grandfathers died for our freedom but EU Policy and weak government foresake it all at the stroke of a pen.
@THEGUZZLER1 So true. so so true. We as a nation have lost our way. we have become diluted and weak to protect what our forefathers fought for. We have lost our national pride and respect for what is right and good. Our elected politicians serve the tiny minority whilst ignoring the honest hardworking taxpayer without whom there would be no United Kingdom. I see no end to the problem as the infection has set in and if I get half an opportunity wiil be taking my hard earned skills down under.
I always remember this being played on Rememberance Sunday. "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few ".Looking at our country today it's sad to see what it has become. Our values, our traditions, our beliefs, not allowed or not Politically Correct. Our grandfathers and great grandfathers died for our freedom but EU Policy and weak government foresake it all at the stroke of a pen.
Believe me dear... you are not alone in the tears. Please never let ANYONE make you think you have to hold them back when you here this music. This piece was composed to reach the core of the human heart. As long as you realize and remember that, two things are solid... 1) that you have a huge heart and are reacting exactly as Elgar would have wanted it to effect you. 2) You are a member of a very large club, as far as being moved to tears (I'm 53, and still cry at hearing it. :>
Dear, they CAN'T understand, you feel exactly what this music want you to feel. This is the power of the music. Don't worry if they don't understand. Open your heart. You can do this cause you are special. I am 61 and a professional composer. When I listen this kind of music i cry too. Sorry for my english, I am italian, I hope you can understand my writings. But anyway you can understand the essence contained in this music. This is the must important think. Have a good life dear.
@chettmansberger Well said! I'm 45 and I too well up at the sheer emotion and beauty of this piece. My kids used it in a Mother's Day video that they created for me one year, so I guess they get it too. @2penguin4u I'm sure your friends have cried in a sad movie, so just tell them that music has that same emotional power over you.
I know exactly how you feel, (I have tears whilst writing this and I'm not embarrassed at all!!) My kids are a 'little' too young to understand yet but EVERY YEAR I go out to my office on Remberance Sunday and watch the London memorial and EVERY and I mean EVERY time I hear this music, I shed a tear thinking of ALL the people who have died and survived for OUR freedom.
@2penguin4u Awww.... Sunshine, some of them will understand eventually, some of them never will. You'l work it out. as you go along, as we all do, some better than others..Why are you sitting crying over an Elgar piece when you're 12 years old for gods sake?! Get your boots on and start kicking a ball about !
And if you'll forgive me, one more thought to offer... have you ever considered studying musical performance and/or composing? It sounds like there's an angel in you waiting to sing to the world. I hope you'll keep us all posted.
Just remember, whether humming in an elevator, or conducting a symphony orchestra, anyone who brings music to the world brings life! So live and be happy! :>
@2penguin4u Good for you, you have soul...I cry and I'm 66, may you never lose the sensitivity to feel the passion of beautiful music ..If friends don't understand it's their loss..take it from me..you are the future..not insensitive cretins. Sorry LOL End of lecture
@2penguin4u Already you see that your friends will never understand.
Don't judge them on this. Instead judge yourself. This is a particularly special piece of music. That you feel it says a lot more about you that it does about your friends.
As a semi-oldie, (36) let me say it warms me to know that people so young as yourself can experience tracks like this as I do. It gives me so much hope for the future, hope that you can't really understand at your young age.....or can you............?
I'm a 53yr old biker and and heavy-metal freak but I cry when I hear this too. You, my friend, should be proud of your feelings for music, be proud of the emotions that flood you when listening such a wonderful piece of music, be proud of who you are...............and yes, I am crying whilst writing this......
@2penguin4u Your channel info says you are 21 years old? Did you get the digits the wrong way round? Either way its good a young person should love this music so much
I cry too @2penguin4u. There's something in this piece that elevates the human spirit. I'd also recommend another English composer, Vaughan Williams. In particular 'Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus' (weird name, but don't let that deter you), 'The Lark Ascending' and 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.' All sublime pieces of music and I hope you enjoy them as much as 'Nimrod.'
@jimbo1531 She made a good choice bro. Im sorry for your loss, losing someone close to you is always a hard thing. But just remember, when something bad happens, something good is waiting for you round the corner. Trust me. Peace
I'm so sorry for the loss of your grandmother, my dear. Bless your Grandmother's heart and soul, and bless you for playing this beautiful music for her. And believe me, the sad days will arrange themselves into days of happy memories, you'll see. Your thoughtfulness toward her will be one of them.
Trust me... it DOES get a little easier, and a little better, day by day. Sleep well tonight, she's smiling right now for you having loved her (and vise versa).
If you're not crying by the end, go listen to Cyrus or Bieber! In both cases, you'll be crying in pain before the fifth second of ANYTHING these fuckers do!!!
Bravo Daniel Barenboim and The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Bravo ! Bravo !
Plentytimes 17 hours ago
Beautiful how Barenboim allows the deep basses to speak distinctly in the otherwise soft final chord.
matthiasbolliger 1 day ago
Remind me again how someone dislikes this?
Jatog9742 2 days ago
This is just perfect, I love it
MrFormulaOne14 2 days ago
The most relaxing music ever, they certainly dont make them like this anymore!
pointer7 3 days ago
Perfect. Just Perfect.
SIXSHOOTERteam 5 days ago
i think out of the 1,412,499 views, at least 50 are from me
SnakesMF 6 days ago
Perfection
MrQuebec 1 week ago
Simply amazing.......but does anyone else notice the conductor's marvelous eyebrow maneuver at 4:10??
micmaclovesmusic 1 week ago 2
I remember hearing this for the first time when I was 12 years old. My dad played it in the car on a beautiful summers day while we drove through the Kent countryside to watch a local cricket game. I can still see the fields and the trees glowing in the sun and still remember feeling proud of our country. Its such an important memory to me. Everytime I hear it, It just blows me away. I love all kinds of music but this is just the greatest.
SNIFFMYBADGER 1 week ago
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@SNIFFMYBADGER"Try listening to Ludovico Einaudi- Nuvole bianche"
It blows you away because..............why exactly?
I know the answer. Just want to hear you say it. And not it a perverse way.
supafuckinmingster 1 week ago
@SNIFFMYBADGER A wonderful comment on a beautiful piece of music. Not sure that I want to sniff your badger, though!
wentonmastermind 3 days ago
This is the best song to recover after making the ill advised desicion of listining to Nicki Minaj
pianoboydude 1 week ago
the way the melody suddenly rises out of that sustained note in the strings is just heartbreaking. Such a masterful interpretation.
TheJoyfulPianist 1 week ago
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TheJoyfulPianist 1 week ago
playing this tomorrow. at rehearsal today, tried not to cry all over my violin T_T
jschmile 1 week ago
the real anthem of the empire
staudtwerner 1 week ago
@staudtwerner Totally agree with you.
mr1168726 1 week ago
on a clear day I can see Elgar's beloved Malverns on the horizon from the village one mile from my house. Patriotic stirrings overwhelm when I hear Nimrod.
LeamingtonSteve 2 weeks ago
hello old friend you just take me to another place away from pain and into joy i shall return
doberadof 2 weeks ago
always loved this, such a fantastic performance,10 out of 10.
GrantDavidGreenham 2 weeks ago
World peace sounds like this, I guess.
keesvangulik127 2 weeks ago 5
@keesvangulik127 What a lovely response.
mr1168726 1 week ago
playing this for a festival soon.. i play first alto.. it is so beautiful to play.
shelbylovescookiehs 2 weeks ago
fills one with an overwhelming sense of pride
redsedped 2 weeks ago
Gorgeous tune, great orchestration
SandrineSoprano 2 weeks ago
lovely song, best song to chill out to ever!
pointer7 2 weeks ago
Any Englishman should feel his soul stirred when he hears this piece of music - it symbolises everything wonderful about our country.
ancientraver19881989 3 weeks ago 3
@ancientraver19881989 Not English, but live in England and feel this in a much broader sense.
SandrineSoprano 2 weeks ago
@SandrineSoprano I COULD BE A HOOKER??????
skantganter 1 week ago
This song was never meant to be sad. It was written for Elgar's best friend.
petrifyer45 3 weeks ago
"9. The way we have adopted Rolf Harris"
hahahahah.
Walloon12345 3 weeks ago
Dear God...Never fails to bring me to tears x
nixart7 4 weeks ago
@nixart7 Cheers
SandrineSoprano 2 weeks ago
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Elgar is art. Schoenberg, Stravinsky etc are nothing!
Rickriquinho 4 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho -- I think Rickriquinho's comment bears no semblance of spam. It is an opinion. Maybe it displays ignorance. It certainly shows that Rickriquinho thinks an awful lot of himself. But it's only one person's opinion. It doesn't use foul language, it doesn't make demeaning comments about other contributors, it isn't vile or offensive. Wrongheaded? Yeah, I think so. But he's entitled to his opinion, and this certainly is NOT spam.
OffGrid9 3 weeks ago
@OffGrid9 What are you talking about? Is this an attempt to make a joke? Modernism is nothing and I have the right to say whenever I want. If you are a slave of today’s ideology it is your problem.
Rickriquinho 3 weeks ago
@Rickriquinho You misunderstood me. I love music of almost all varieties: classical, popular, old, new, rock, folk, country, etc. I love Elgar, but I also think some modernist works are good. I believe you are wrong when you say all modernist music is nothing...but you're entitled to your opinion. That is what my 1st comment said: YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO YOUR OPINION. My anger was only directed at the person who labeled your post as "spam". I was criticizing HIM, not you. Happy New Year
OffGrid9 3 weeks ago
@OffGrid9 Please forgive me!
Rickriquinho 3 weeks ago
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Rickriquinho 4 weeks ago
William Lawson brought me there. This song is just awesome !!
warzazette 1 month ago
At the going down of the sun, I AM PROUD to remember them. ALl our service personel we honour you
MultiMegadriver 1 month ago
FOR THE SHALLOW people in this world listen to Edward elgars piece and listen to this man and his work
motorguzzi100 1 month ago
Certified Intergalactic!
Dogaradodia 1 month ago
FOR ALL SAILORS AT SEA
motorguzzi100 1 month ago
One of my all-time favorite classical pieces. Funny how so many people react to this piece, myself included. I feel the sorrow very very deeply, but I also hear a submission to hope throughout this entire piece. Delicate yet so full of raw transparent emotion. Music does much better than words when it comes to expressing some things.
deecee10000 1 month ago 20
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@deecee10000 You hear nothing but your own worthless shit you vermin. How dare you claim to understand this beautiful piece. You are shit. Fuck you. You should have your throat cut.
Cocteau120 1 month ago
@Cocteau120 Ahaha. . .you're funny. Do that again.
deecee10000 1 month ago
@deecee10000WELL SAID
motorguzzi100 1 month ago
@deecee10000 Beautifully said.
skyeyez101 1 month ago
@deecee10000 Agree. Agree. Agree
SandrineSoprano 2 weeks ago
It brings tears to your eyes and a lump to your throat.
jeanaheroe 1 month ago
i'm actually too scared to stop listening to this
SnakesMF 1 month ago
Just awesome... So much emotion in such a short amount of time....
ruckersoccer1 1 month ago
Love this melody
andre25amizaday 1 month ago
There are so many reasons I love Elgar. He is the composer of secret sorrows---and it comes out in his music--such as here.
windstorm1000 1 month ago
Amazing <3
Ambam8204 1 month ago
thumbs up if you are here after reading Niall Fergusons article in The Times.
cyanspeaker 1 month ago 3
Brilliant
rob51e 1 month ago
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Nimrod is the founder of Babylon and an enemy of Jesus Christ, so this work is completely blasphemous and should be banned.
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Oh you're just being silly!
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scragster105 1 month ago
@scragster105 i think it was a tongue in cheek comment, you idiot.
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
@herbertwarmstrong oh my god then don't eat anything because the food you eat is most likely grown by infidels. lighten up or die.
jeaniebaby001 1 month ago
Solemnly beautiful. Elgar was the last of the true English romantic composers. This piece was used in Ken Burns' "The War" to stunning effect. It was the perfect expression of sorrow and solemnity in that film. Beautiful performance here. This ranks as one of my favorite pieces of English romantic classical music. Too bad Elgar came to recognition so late in his life, but glad he finally did. It was more than well deserved for such an eminent composer of his skill.
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skyeyez101 1 month ago
Is it any wonder you can't get a proper job with language like that!!!!
And it was Labour who introduced high fees, it wass Labour who sold our Gold, It was Labour who put us in this pickle.
T is for Tory - T is for T Rex (who was a 70's Glam-rocker who sang Hot Love and Jeepster amongst many others. Put that in your Dizzy Rascal pipe and smoke it!!!)
policemanandrew 1 month ago
@policemanandrew
the only reason labour had to do that was because of what the torries did.
HAHA a proper job, oh i'm sorry, because i'm not sitting behind a desk churning out spread sheets and having an affair with my secretary its not proper. my mistake.
Basically the rich get richer, while i'm freeing my balls off every day on the railway to make sure they can get home and live their suburban nightmares.
Also, mate dizzy rascal is shit, its all about Creedence clearwater revival!
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
@Eddyvanjones
Would this be the same railway that the Tories privatised making MILLIONS of WORKING CLASS people rich with very reasonable share options whilst still maintaining a stronghold on the whole regulated network.
Also the same railways that Labour decreased spending on (approx 25 percent) yet increasing fares by over 45 percent in 5 years?
Just wonderring.....................................
policemanandrew 1 month ago
@policemanandrew
Congratulations the only thing you could pick fault with was my profession. Prices of rail travel have increased, but that has nothing to do with infrastructure maintenance, i don't work for a train operating company who set the prices of rail travel. Knob.
Would you work for the same police force who couldn't contain a few looters and opportunists in the summer?
just wondering is all...
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
@Eddyvanjones
see the problem with youths like you is there is no respect. I have shown you nothing but respect yet your resort to swearing and infantile name calling.
You have now bored me so I shall not respond any further.
Go poo a hedgehog, you silly little boy.
policemanandrew 1 month ago
@policemanandrew
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
name calling? what? all i can say to that is the truth hurts doesn't it!
you know you've been beaten and you cant take it!
i'm taking that as a win for the general public, the working classes, labour and every upstanding gentlemen who has been scrutinized by the police force for nothing at all, while rapists and murders run riot on our streets.
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
@policemanandrew
also after looking at your profile page, it would seem you're very unpopular, i like that a lot. it would seem you get a little to big for your boots quite a lot.
also i'm not a youth, i live in a down-trodden area, but i'm not part of the whole gang culture. you presume far too much and that is your biggest downfall. Checkmate sir.
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
this is really beautiful
juliecbow 2 months ago
Barenboim. <3
Majhnavea0 2 months ago
Get outta here you ... nimrod!
KarlNuevo16 2 months ago
Nimrod sounds like an insult.. Damn you nimrod!
KarlNuevo16 2 months ago
policemanandrew 2 months ago
@policemanandrew Margret Thatcher makes you proud to be British??? sort your life out, she crippled this country, very much the same way the current government is now. She destroyed the working classes, what this country was built on, destroying the unions that protect the blue collar worker and ripping apart whole communities that had been there since the industrial revolution. Oh yeah, shes what makes me get up every morning and go, ahhhhhh, its good to be british!
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
@Eddyvanjones
No disrespect, but if you (or more likely your parents) adhered to Thatcherism, you would not be so depressed and wake up everyday thinking the world owes you a living. This country was NOT built on working classes it was built on Worldwide imperialism and a strong stoic backbone. mCheck your history dear boy.
L is for Labour - L is for Lice (as Harry Enfield once said!!)
policemanandrew 1 month ago
@policemanandrew
I don't think the world owes me a living. i have 3 A's at a-level, but cannot afford to go to university. i am therefore on an apprenticeship , where i'm at the bottom of the barrel grafting everyday. i don't take anything for granted. Also world-wide imperialism, which was created by the working classes, i don't remember Isambard Kingdom-brunnel grafting on the SS Great Britain, do you?
C is for conservative, its also for cunt (as Eddyvanjones said)
Eddyvanjones 1 month ago
This should be our National Song.
mr1168726 2 months ago 2
btw, for an awesome brass ensemble arrangement of this segment, do a search on Carolina Crown 2010 Nimrod. :)
larryryals44 2 months ago
Amazing and beautiful performance. Perfect tribute to Maestro Solti.
larryryals44 2 months ago
This was played at the end of my grandads funeral when the coffin was carried out of the church. A year on and it still brings a tear to my eye.
TheMash1993 2 months ago
Sublime . . . eternal . . . absolution!
cgbessell 2 months ago in playlist ELGAR - VARIOUS
I made a percussion ensemble arrangement of this movement (you can hear it on my youtube channel)
Jeeef27 2 months ago
What in the world does criticizing the government have to do with this piece, especially the race part stepheng 1483. This music unifies us all in spirit.
tennotes 2 months ago
Nimrod is such a beautiful piece of music.
AtleeDeltic 2 months ago
Elgar and tea. Elgar. And tea. Trust me.
theotendleeey 2 months ago in playlist ed elgar playlist 2
@theotendleeey Elgar and Wienersnitchel trust me... :)
crazycutz 2 months ago
@crazycutz ooh good call!
theotendleeey 2 months ago
3:48 to 3:58 is like... i don't know but i never get to control this chills and my blurry eyes.
daytripperarrabal 2 months ago
i'm 9 billion years and one second old and i cry until i laugh when i think about laughing at how sadly funny this non-composition never always isn't.
OceanderTethyseus 2 months ago
It's amazing how many people out there can't see by now that our governments want to outnumber the white race in our own countries and race mix us out of existence. With millions of unemployed they are still allowing half a million Africans and Asians into our country every single year. Hello idiots, can't you see this makes no sense whatsoever? Can't you see our "leaders" blatantly don't work for our people? It could hardly be any more obvious by now.
stepheng1483 2 months ago
@stepheng1483 1 thing is obvious. You are an ignorant troll.
JaguarEarlobe 2 months ago
I sit here, tears streaming down my cheeks. I cannot help myself; it's always been this way. It's probably been mentioned here before, but Elgar's Enigma Variations were written about his friends - people he knew, and "Nimrod", the mighty hunter was based on his friend, August Jaeger. Many of you will recognize that Jaeger in German means "hunter", and the piece portrays the nobility and majesty of Elgar's friend.
drsteerforth 2 months ago
I'm 10 months old. I can't even speak yet. Paradoxically, I can't even read or write yet. Every time I hear this composition I think of beautiful existential thoughts .. I get carried to a new plane where there is no war, no hate. Just love, forgiveness. I try and tell my mum.. but she doesn't understand. She just stuffs another bottle of milk in my mouth. Sometimes I wonder... is this everything? Is this existance in pure sonic form. .... ?
JaguarEarlobe 2 months ago
the elgar' s music is one exemple of maximum excellent and sublime in all time of music
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carlolamberti1 2 months ago
to the young lad who crys at this peice of genius fair play gives me hope for the futures
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12 years old and cry at this tune.........your human and yourr not the only one who cries at this haunting tune. You are the better person to admit to this well done.
trbooks 2 months ago
I was at the Cenotaph in London today and I heard the military bands play this. I have never felt such pride and humility as I did when the strains of this carried through the air. We owe so much to those that died, and those who were left.
Gone but never forgotten. Rest In Peace.
jonnyXbrainless 2 months ago 23
@2penguin4u You just made my day. You give me hope. Thank you.
freakinrayofsunshine 2 months ago
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Lest we forget
GlentoranMark 2 months ago
after our remembrance day asembly at bradford grammer school, the organ played this, and its been stuck on my mind since. this is one of the best. long live nimrod. rip the vetrans and all the soldiers who have died in the wars! rip....
thebismarkandthehood 2 months ago
This past weekend, I performed this along with the other variations (minus Dorabella); I could have sworn my conductor almost broke down on stage. I absolutely adore this entire piece, I wish to play it many more times within my life
hoockaloo 2 months ago
There was recently a documentary on BBC about Elgar that explained the origins of 'Nimrod'. This piece of music was written for his closest friend August Jaeger and through sound explains just how close they were. It is also played every year on Remembrance Sunday here in the UK.
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I love this piece of music and I cannot think of a more emotional or fitting tribute to all those who have given their lives for this Country in all conflicts. It's a debt we will always owe and I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear every Rememberance Day when I hear 'Nimrod' and watch the poppies fall to the floor.
SonofSkaro 2 months ago
I love this piece of music and I cannot of a more emotional or fitting tribute to all those who have given their lives for this Country in all conflicts. It's a debt we will always owe and I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear every Rememberance Day when I hear 'Nimrod' and watch the poppies fall to the floor.
SonofSkaro 2 months ago
i will always be British...god bless our country
qwimbers 2 months ago
Wonderful Elgar.He was able to put into music the British pride.
55lilyflynn 2 months ago
this is not a song. it is a great escape for those of us who have to be strong enough to carry on.
kimosabe2011 2 months ago
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amyjolly90 3 months ago
this makes me be reminded about my brother age 19 who died in the army we played this at his funrel may he R.I.P armen
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amyjolly90 3 months ago
When I listen to this I just want to nuke Brussels.
beastinblack 3 months ago
i am 13 and agree with 2penguin4u this is so much better than modern 'music' it sums Britain up.
thebismarkandthehood 3 months ago 11
Its not a strange thing to cry over music! I do that several times a week - just so I still know I am human with a heart thats beats! Never ever have music touched us with such an mindblowing effects as in the forceful power of Elgar and his "Enigma Variations"! It contains the essence of everything music is ever about and ever gonna be about - it makes us all feel the grandour of life itself!
mikael69851 3 months ago
Beautiful...Thankyou so much x
Somme1916Somme 3 months ago
This music is like a Key that can open ones heart up and allow it to heal .
MrTemugin10 3 months ago
scampben 3 months ago
@scampben wasnt england created a good 8-10,000 years after the first peoples arrived ;)
3tangle3 3 months ago
New national anthem.
HeadChestOrFoot 3 months ago
i wish, for just one day,that the politicos & business magnates; and all the rich,powerful and selfish people around the globe, would hear a piece like this, call to their souls and give them cause to do something decent...
JoeFisher12String 3 months ago
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The secret melody to Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations is 'Ein feste Burg' (A Mighty Fortress) by Martin Luther. There are various musical ciphers embedded in the Variations confirming the identities of both the covert Principal Theme and the hidden Friend for Variation XIII. To learn more about these intriguing discoveries, visit enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot.com
Sirpadgett 3 months ago
it really cracks me up when people say "justin beiber is real music, Beehtoven, Mozart, Elgar, all they had wad amazingly composed music, while Justin Beiber has....... about one chord reapetadly played over and over again. Now that's the epitome of music."
pianoboydude 3 months ago
outstanding performance.
phenomenal crescendos.
great tuning.
excellent note-reading.
how can music get any better than this? fuck autotune.
jay121893 3 months ago
hell yeah i have had the time of my life this piece was def something unpredictable but in the end its right
planetraptor420 3 months ago
We all have our individual opinions as well as our own musical education. In addition, some of us read a lot, and find out about the composer's life as well as the conductor's life. We can also read about the history of the orchestra. Since I'm a retired music teacher I do all this kind of reading which makes for me, the music a whole lot more interesting...like it or not. In this case, I happen to LOVE this piece, the conductor,composer and the entire orchestra's rendition of this MARVEL!
kasha1932 3 months ago
Wow...............music...............the power of beautiful sound. In time younger listeners/viewers will know what it mean.
supafuckinmingster 3 months ago
I always remember this being played on Rememberance Sunday. "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few ".Looking at our country today it's sad to see what it has become. Our values, our traditions, our beliefs, not allowed or not Politically Correct. Our grandfathers and great grandfathers died for our freedom but EU Policy and weak government foresake it all at the stroke of a pen.
THEGUZZLER1 3 months ago 6
@THEGUZZLER1 here here rule britannia
M374EVL 3 months ago 2
@THEGUZZLER1 So true. so so true. We as a nation have lost our way. we have become diluted and weak to protect what our forefathers fought for. We have lost our national pride and respect for what is right and good. Our elected politicians serve the tiny minority whilst ignoring the honest hardworking taxpayer without whom there would be no United Kingdom. I see no end to the problem as the infection has set in and if I get half an opportunity wiil be taking my hard earned skills down under.
24765968 3 months ago
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I always remember this being played on Rememberance Sunday. "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few ".Looking at our country today it's sad to see what it has become. Our values, our traditions, our beliefs, not allowed or not Politically Correct. Our grandfathers and great grandfathers died for our freedom but EU Policy and weak government foresake it all at the stroke of a pen.
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THEGUZZLER1 3 months ago
Beautifully performed
nine8nine 3 months ago
chills and tears everytime, truly remarkable.
bassman7208 3 months ago
@chettmansberger trust me I love playing this peice with the youth symphony I'm in and Idc what people think anymore I love music and nothing more
2penguin4u 3 months ago 2
Such a beautiful piece. Can't wait to perform it with my high school band!
Canadian737 3 months ago
i think of steve jobs, rip.
jeaniebaby001 3 months ago
@jeaniebaby001 You just ruined my life
tommasosciotto 3 months ago
One of the greatest works of music. It should be recorded onto a golden disc and shot into space.
CommitToFocus 3 months ago 4
I'm 12 yearsold I cry when I hear this. My friends laugh. But they will never understand
2penguin4u 3 months ago 97
@2penguin4u
Believe me dear... you are not alone in the tears. Please never let ANYONE make you think you have to hold them back when you here this music. This piece was composed to reach the core of the human heart. As long as you realize and remember that, two things are solid... 1) that you have a huge heart and are reacting exactly as Elgar would have wanted it to effect you. 2) You are a member of a very large club, as far as being moved to tears (I'm 53, and still cry at hearing it. :>
chettmansberger 3 months ago 42
@2penguin4u
Dear, they CAN'T understand, you feel exactly what this music want you to feel. This is the power of the music. Don't worry if they don't understand. Open your heart. You can do this cause you are special. I am 61 and a professional composer. When I listen this kind of music i cry too. Sorry for my english, I am italian, I hope you can understand my writings. But anyway you can understand the essence contained in this music. This is the must important think. Have a good life dear.
MrGuidazziDaniele 2 months ago 3
@chettmansberger Well said! I'm 45 and I too well up at the sheer emotion and beauty of this piece. My kids used it in a Mother's Day video that they created for me one year, so I guess they get it too. @2penguin4u I'm sure your friends have cried in a sad movie, so just tell them that music has that same emotional power over you.
kathitorres1 2 months ago 3
@chettmansberger
I know exactly how you feel, (I have tears whilst writing this and I'm not embarrassed at all!!) My kids are a 'little' too young to understand yet but EVERY YEAR I go out to my office on Remberance Sunday and watch the London memorial and EVERY and I mean EVERY time I hear this music, I shed a tear thinking of ALL the people who have died and survived for OUR freedom.
microchipper 2 months ago 3
@2penguin4u Cry away with the rest of us! Take a look at the massed bands playing this on rememberance sunday, I cry buckets!
terryneale 3 months ago
@2penguin4u Awww.... Sunshine, some of them will understand eventually, some of them never will. You'l work it out. as you go along, as we all do, some better than others..Why are you sitting crying over an Elgar piece when you're 12 years old for gods sake?! Get your boots on and start kicking a ball about !
KevLancaster1 3 months ago
@2penguin4u
'cause You had hearth at 12......
alzetta 3 months ago
@2penguin4u
And if you'll forgive me, one more thought to offer... have you ever considered studying musical performance and/or composing? It sounds like there's an angel in you waiting to sing to the world. I hope you'll keep us all posted.
Just remember, whether humming in an elevator, or conducting a symphony orchestra, anyone who brings music to the world brings life! So live and be happy! :>
chettmansberger 2 months ago
@2penguin4u Good for you, you have soul...I cry and I'm 66, may you never lose the sensitivity to feel the passion of beautiful music ..If friends don't understand it's their loss..take it from me..you are the future..not insensitive cretins. Sorry LOL End of lecture
Love and peace to you
MrSirDel 2 months ago
@2penguin4u Already you see that your friends will never understand.
Don't judge them on this. Instead judge yourself. This is a particularly special piece of music. That you feel it says a lot more about you that it does about your friends.
As a semi-oldie, (36) let me say it warms me to know that people so young as yourself can experience tracks like this as I do. It gives me so much hope for the future, hope that you can't really understand at your young age.....or can you............?
supafuckinmingster 2 months ago
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@2penguin4u there not intelligent enough.
thawdani 2 months ago
@2penguin4u Hey, my friends are like that, too! :) So you're not alone.
borgoat21 2 months ago
@2penguin4u Maybe one day they will understand...it is not impossible believe me.
Jolliffesguy 2 months ago
I'm a 53yr old biker and and heavy-metal freak but I cry when I hear this too. You, my friend, should be proud of your feelings for music, be proud of the emotions that flood you when listening such a wonderful piece of music, be proud of who you are...............and yes, I am crying whilst writing this......
Greebo666 2 months ago 6
@2penguin4u Your channel info says you are 21 years old? Did you get the digits the wrong way round? Either way its good a young person should love this music so much
KevLancaster1 2 months ago 2
I cry too @2penguin4u. There's something in this piece that elevates the human spirit. I'd also recommend another English composer, Vaughan Williams. In particular 'Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus' (weird name, but don't let that deter you), 'The Lark Ascending' and 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.' All sublime pieces of music and I hope you enjoy them as much as 'Nimrod.'
jfkmiller 2 months ago
@2penguin4u ...so what?
you are one of thoses who understands:
music can express emotions, we do not have any words for
to ignore them, is impossible eighter
cry on and feel free, feel liberty!
staudtwerner 2 months ago
I'm 12 years old I cry when I hear this. My r
2penguin4u 3 months ago
It looks like Daniel Barenboim is in a trance conducting this piece. And how does he do it so magnificently without a score in front of him?
junglekuratz 3 months ago
I just don't understand disliking this vide or
2penguin4u 3 months ago
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Susieeeeeeh 3 months ago
If this doesnt move you then nothing will !
piepants17 4 months ago
This is the song my Grandmother requested be played at her funeral, which was today. It'll always remind me of her from now on.
jimbo1531 4 months ago 4
@jimbo1531 She made a good choice bro. Im sorry for your loss, losing someone close to you is always a hard thing. But just remember, when something bad happens, something good is waiting for you round the corner. Trust me. Peace
binner69er 4 months ago
@jimbo1531
I'm so sorry for the loss of your grandmother, my dear. Bless your Grandmother's heart and soul, and bless you for playing this beautiful music for her. And believe me, the sad days will arrange themselves into days of happy memories, you'll see. Your thoughtfulness toward her will be one of them.
Trust me... it DOES get a little easier, and a little better, day by day. Sleep well tonight, she's smiling right now for you having loved her (and vise versa).
chettmansberger 3 months ago
wow this conductor is no fool actually does his job very well like surprisingly well :D
ShinobiSl4sh 4 months ago
beautiful...
letsgetrocked89 4 months ago
If you're not crying by the end, go listen to Cyrus or Bieber! In both cases, you'll be crying in pain before the fifth second of ANYTHING these fuckers do!!!
SordidGuy 4 months ago
One of the best pieces of music ever written.
MrCellissimo 4 months ago 3
Rather splendid one thinks
admant15 4 months ago
this is really impressive piece! thank you, elgar
PRKonektor 4 months ago 2
So beautiful.............!!!!!!
supafuckinmingster 4 months ago
It reminds me of my Grandad. I've shed a few tear over it, and I'm not about to deny it. Blows me away every time.
DrewJPS 4 months ago 2