Magnificent, humane, multi-talented, complete: musicology doesn't come any better than this, and no-one can present it as well - not even Gould and Bernstein.

Fascinating lecture.

LOL... I'm so glad you cleared the Enigma up... :-)))

Elgar’s gave his friend August Jaeger (who is memorialized in Variation IX) the unusual nickname Nimrod. That odd title is a sublime example of Elgar’s exquisite sense of wordplay, for its various connotations may be combined to produce the title “A Mighty Fortress.” To learn more about this wordplay cipher, visit: enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot.com/2011/01/nimrod-elgar-and-wordplay.html

Should have started with "Hello Children...today we're looking through the round window"...There is no obsession. with the Enigma. The Enigma is staring everyone in the face. It is only the classical music industry keeping the not so secret at bay because they can't break it.

Cryptographic evidence confirms that the Turin Shroud was a significant source of inspiration for Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations. The timing is credible as Secondo Pia’s famous photographic negatives became an international sensation five months before Elgar began work on the Variations. To learn more about the multiple connections between the Turin Shroud and the ‘Enigma’ Variations, visit enigmathemeunmasked.blogspot.com/2011/06/links-between-enigma-variations-and.html