Having just gotten home from my final concert of this year’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra season, where Enigma was on the program, I offer these thoughts.
It’s a homage to, or reflection upon, rather than calling it a variation on, the Dies Irae opening.
Of course, in addition to some differences in note intervals, it’s in a major key.
That’s why each individual variation is named after a friend of Elgar’s. Rather than a reflection on their deaths, or last judgments, though, it’s a reflection on their lives, with the “positive” angle of the major key.
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