Rozhdestvensky conducts Elgar's "Enigma Variations" - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - 2007 Proms 

Look at how these orchestra musicians are on the very edges of their seats, giving everything and then some more for this man. They knew. He was the last of the Greatest of the Greats.

00:22 Theme, Edward Elgar, composer 02:07 Variation I, Caroline, Elgar's wife 03:57 Variation II, Hew, mischievous amateur pianist, Elgar's chamber partner (Elgar played violin) 04:49 Variation III, Richard, teacher at Oxford, who's also a comical amateur theater actor 06:22 Variation IV, William, Richard's brother-in-law, an energetic estate owner 06:51 Variation V, Matthew, a rather philosophical music lover, son of a famous poet 08:59 Variation VI, Isabel, a viola student who's having trouble with string-crossings 10:12 Variation VII, Elgar and his friend Arthur were caught in a thunderstorm during a walk 11:11 Variation VIII, they ran to hide in their friend Winifred's place - a warm 18th-century house, and met with her children 13:17 Variation IX, Augustus, a music editor who continuously encouraged Elgar's career as a composer 17:29 Variation X, Dora, William's step-niece who stutters 20:14 Variation XI, Dan the bulldog, who fell into a river, struggled upstream, and eventually found landing 21:16 Variation XII, Basil, amateur cellist, Elgar's chamber partner, whom Elgar has always been grateful of 24:55 Variation XIII, Helen, who broke off her engagement to Elgar fifteen years ago and left on a boat to New Zealand 27:41 Finale, Edward, Caroline's husband

Gennady Rozhdestvensky passed away 16/7/2018. R.I.P. maestro.

A wonderful performance. All on very short notice. Bravo to everyone, including the BBC engineers!

It was quite a long time ago, and I remember when G R took charge of the RPO and. Brought a new dimension to our musical appreciation. A Great Russian gentleman and what a brilliant sound they made. A lot of water passed down the Thames since then. Wonderful memories.

just look and hear the joy this inspired genius brought with him......dearest man, what a joy to make music with you...forever missed, always treasured, unforgettable

Гениально исполнено, я слушала со слезами на глазах. Обожаю Геннадия Николаевича, как жаль, что его больше нет с нами. Это вершина музыкального мастерства и единения музыкантов, дирижёра и композитора. Спасибо за пост.

I love the way GR loves conducting this music, appreciating its great simplicity, which he mirrors with the simplicity of his conducting...

This piece is a marvel. I love getting lost in it and just letting the music flow around me.

R.I.P. Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931 - 2018)

What a glorious performance by venerable conductor Gennadi R.❤

Thank you for sharing ! My favourite conductor 😄

This one and Elgar's conducting are the best recordings I have found. Perfect tempo and dynamics! If only the recording had more quality.

sounds very well, nice performance for this difficult piece. thanks very much for uploading.

In all my years ,of listening out for new, and unheard performances, of Elgars Enigma Variations. This, is among the very best, made more so, by the first rate recording quality, that anables one to appreciate it all the more.

Thank you for posting. Fine listening - Nimrod beautiful and moving as always.

A real pleasure to hear this wonderful performance without annoying interruptions...Thanks so much!

RIP Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Beautiful. That one persons brain can interpret and translate every little ink blob on a manuscript into this !

This is perhaps the most convincing example of orchestral conducting as an exercise in telepathy. Maestro-you are much missed.

Thanks so much for showing this complete piece of wonderful music. Makes my heart soar, and sore.

This man did something incredible years ago with the BSO: he used nothing but his hands, and barely those when he conducted a Sibelius #2. It was magnificent and totally memorable!!!!

I was pleased to see that G.R. (died about a week ago) was able to include the organ part at the end of the Variations for this performance.

He was a real nutcake and I will never understand how someone so original could survive the USSR but he new how to bring off performances. Great performance and the timpanist has a wonderful sound and attack.

All the power of men in this master piece

R.I.P. our beloved friend Gennady...

One of the greatest conductors show us his way of seeing music. ¡Thanks!

Found this maestro late in life. Wow.

This is the best variations performance on youtube.

Beautiful ! Thank you for posting !

Превосходно!!! Браво!!! Музыка, исполнение - чудо! Спасибо огромное!🙋‍♀️

Probably Best Performance in the World!!!

Holy smokes that musical direction is incredible

condolences、ありがとう。安らかにおやすみください。

RIP maestro

Since the quintessential Brit Sir Winston Churchill described Russia "as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," what better than to have a Russian conduct Elgar's Enigma Variations.

This is a really lovely version. thank you.

I love Elgar's Enigma which has modest, graceful, poetic, dreamy, and colorful notes. I find it is hard to play perfectly and hard to find almost perfect performance.

Mesmerizing performance

Such perfect tempi!!!

Спасибо!

He reminds me in many ways of Boult: could and would conduct anything and always you were left feeling satisfied.

Very! Tnx!!!

Brilliant performance

What a brilliant performance!

Watch a master at work

Sublime!!

Best Russian conductor ever

RIP Noddy Thank you

MAESTRO!

Rozhdestvensky super. What a colossal luck missing a honest craftsman and gaining a Genius in conducting.......

名曲で、名演奏ですね。

MAESTRO

I have a number of recordings of this great work, including Boult's, but on this showing I think this top Russian conductor would have been usefully employed in recording collections of English music. I wonder, for example, what he would have brought to the likes of "Tintagel" and "Crown Imperial".

Nice tempi

Good night sweet prince

❤

A conductor we should be hearing a great deal more from. Would you believe he's also an excellent Delius interpreter?

That's for sure

Curse me for being an ungrateful wretch, but if only this magnificent performance was available at a better technical quality, particularly the audio which is marred by distortion.

6:52

Why do you insist on a comment. I enjoy listening, and ITube also freely includes wonderfully imaginative visual recordings for which, many many thanks, signed BCSeals

Nimrod 13:18

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ry Variations on an Enigma by Orlando Pearson. A new theory of the theme behind the Enigma Variations including why Elgar revealed lots of secrets behind the Enigma but not the Enigma itself. Sherlock Holmes investigates

Ugh I have to do this for school

The cougher who ruined a sublime NIMROD must be executed!

Yes I remember this concert very well. What you are hearing is mostly the rehearsed version under Gatti which contains all his ideas . Rozhdestvensky is mostly just keeping the orchestra together and beating time.

Но почему среди музыкантов все белые британцы? А где же афро-британцы?