Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches/ Enigma variations

Album by Edward Elgar & Sir Georg Solti & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Pomp and Circumstance Marches and the Enigma Variations are orchestral works by English composer Edward Elgar, composed in 1901–1930 and 1899 respectively. Musically, they exemplify Elgar's late-Romantic orchestral idiom, combining broad, processional gestures and lyrical string writing with rich harmonic language and variation techniques, and they occupy a central place in the development of English orchestral music at the turn of the 20th century.

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  1. 1.
    Pomp and Circumstance March, op. 39: no. 1 in D Major
    6:37
  2. 2.
    Pomp and Circumstance March, op. 39: no. 2 in A Minor
    5:51
  3. 3.
    Pomp and Circumstance March, op. 39: no. 3 in C Minor
    5:56
  4. 4.
    Pomp and Circumstance March, op. 39: no. 4 in G major
    4:53
  5. 5.
    Pomp and Circumstance March, op. 39: no. 5 in C major
    5:45
  6. 6.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Theme
    1:48
  7. 7.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation I. C.A.E.
    1:47
  8. 8.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation II. H.D.S.
    0:41
  9. 9.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation III. R.B.T.
    1:28
  10. 10.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation IV. W.M.B.
    0:29
  11. 11.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation V. R.P.A.
    1:59
  12. 12.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation VI. Ysobel
    1:20
  13. 13.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation VII. Troyte
    0:56
  14. 14.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation VIII. W.N.
    1:43
  15. 15.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation IX. Nimrod
    3:06
  16. 16.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation X. (Intermezzo) Dorabella
    2:35
  17. 17.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation XI. G.R.S.
    0:57
  18. 18.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation XII. B.G.N.
    2:39
  19. 19.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation XIII. (Romanza)
    2:27
  20. 20.
    Enigma Variations, op. 36: Variation XIV. (Finale) E.D.U.
    4:54
  21. 21.
    Overture Cockaigne, op. 40 (In London Town)
    14:17
  22. 22.
    God Save the Queen (London philharminic concert version)
    1:13

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