Enigma Variations: Music with secret and cryptic messages
This playlist, named after Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, presents works characterised by hidden messages or secret ideas. Whether it is Alban Berg retelling the story of an affair, Robert Schumann paying homage to his “distant beloved” or Dmitri Shostakovich capturing Stalin’s brutality in sound, it is instrumental music that in each case allows the composer to express and hide secrets at the same time.
Recommended for you
- Robert Schumann in his works
- Mariss Jansons and the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Mozart’s most beautiful piano concertos
- A conductor recommends: Susanna Mälkki’s highlights
- Johannes Brahms I: Symphonies, Concertos, Deutsches Requiem
- From Brazil to China: Classical works inspired by other sound worlds
- French music with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Musical Sunrises: “Let there be light!”
- Light music and favourite works with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Berliner Philharmoniker as soloists
