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“Enigma” Variations and “Death & Transfiguration” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
These two works both written within the last fifteen years of the 19th century could be seen as opposite to each other in 'sentiment': Elgar's musical portraits versus the pondering of one's life and passing.