Elgar - Nimrod (from "Enigma Variations")

I feel God smiling on me when I hear this piece.

i cant find that version. where can i hear it?

Hi 'euphoniumhumper' try typing in Centotaph and then Nimrod, it might help ... Best regards :0)x

This is STILL a highly emotive piece, but just close your eyes and let it wash over you... Simply brilliant... :0)x

Will you (anyone) for pity sake give a rest about the ***** War! Every **** time! It really is quite simply. United we stood, divided we would have fallen. Britain would have be stuffed without America, likewise without British resitance there would have been no hope / D Day and eventually America would have been stuffed. Either way we would have been living under the dubious choice of Communist or Nazi dictatorship. Please take your pointless squabbles to another place.

I agree with you 100% well said

this is beautiful.


also does anyone think it resembles the music from the lion king, the scene where mufasa has just died and simba's walking up to him?

This movement from the Enigma Variations has always been one of my favorite musical pieces of all time...I will never forget the day my older sister gave me a CD of the World's Best Classical Anthems...this was on it...I kept playing it (as well as Holst's "Jupiter") over and over again. 7 years later it's still one of my favorites:)

thrombox , i have a degree in pre and post war history , and what you say is the truth , the poles and dutch underground fighters were the real heros, the french have been hyped up for the US film market

Other contribution's such as the French, Norwegians etc. would have all been pointless had it not been for the Polish one which was critical.

Imagine if the Poles did what the French did and made Vichy? The enigma secret would be out and Hitler would have taken over the world.

Even the Queen knows this, I quote her saying in 1992.

"..Without the Poles the candle of freedom may very well have been snuffed out.."

It is post-war British historians who have written Poland out of the war.

It is a simple argument.

The enigma decoding won the war.

Poland cracked and gave the Enigma to Britain and France.

Thousands of Poles gave their lives being tortured to death by the Gestapo and not one of them gave away the secret that the german military messages were being decoded.

The enigma decodings meant the Russians won the battle of Kursk the largest land battle and tank battle in the history of mankind, they knew exactly what the German plan was.

Poland's contribution was critical