It is the musical puzzle that has seen Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, the works of Shakespeare and even the mathematical formula for Pi suggested as possible answers. But now a respected art critic has ...

One theme – endlessly talked about – and fourteen variations on it. Each variation was the result of a parlour game between Elgar and his wife, Alice. He’d played the theme to her, which he described ...

Hear the full performance of Elgar's piece by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Payare. After creating a theme based on his own personality, Elgar developed 14 variations that act as ...

The BBC Philharmonic perform one of the most well-known and much loved pieces in the British classical music canon, Sir Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, filmed at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.