The best of Elgar's Enigma Variations is the Nimrod Variation. It's his second most famous work (after one portion of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches, played (almost always in excerpt -- the whole piece is actually quite good) at every friggin graduation ceremony known to man) and has been featured in several movies, including "Elizabeth". It's quite beautiful and moving, and if I'm ever a movie director, I'm going to use it to backdrop the most erotic and sensual sex scene
ever.
<<The variation pictures his friend and mentor A J Jaeger whose name is German for 'hunter', while Nimrod is of course the legendary Biblical hunter.>> from
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