Enigma Variations / Overture Cockaigne

Album by Edward Elgar & Philharmonia Orchestra & Sir John Barbirolli

Enigma Variations / Overture Cockaigne is a pairing of orchestral works by English composer Edward Elgar, composed in 1899 and 1901 respectively. Both pieces are late-Romantic orchestral works that use lyrical string lines, prominent brass and woodwind colour, and rich harmonic language, and they appear during a period when Elgar expanded his orchestral writing beyond earlier, smaller forms.