Elgar's "Enigma Variations" were played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a controversial reading by Leonard Bernstein at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 14 April 1982. In this first part we hear the Theme and Variations Nos 1 - 7.


In this second part we hear Variations Nos 8 - 10, including Bernstein's notoriously slow version of "Nimrod".




In this final part we hear Variations Nos 11 - 14. The announcer at the end states that this was the first time Bernstein had conducted the BBC Symphony. It was also the last