Symphony no. 7 / Enigma Variations

Album by Antonín Dvořák & Edward Elgar & London Symphony Orchestra & Eduardo Mata

Symphony No. 7 is the seventh symphony by Antonín Dvořák, composed in 1885, and Enigma Variations is a set of orchestral variations by Edward Elgar, composed in 1898–1899. Both works exemplify late-Romantic orchestral writing: Dvořák's Seventh is a large-scale, dramatic symphony that draws on Bohemian melodic and rhythmic elements and marks a mature symphonic statement in his career, while Elgar's Enigma Variations employs a theme-and-variations structure to create vivid orchestral character sketches and occupies a notable place in the development of English orchestral music around the turn of the 20th century.