My father knew Edward Elgar. As a small boy in the same village of Broadheath, he would see Elgar as an older man in his garden, he loved flowers. He would always say hello and look at my father and stop his gardening to speak to him and his brothers and sister as they walked past. I was lucky to live in the same village many years later. Sadly, now all family have gone. But what beautiful music!! I am approaching 70 years now but this moves me, such talent!
I had a premature emergency c-section due to severe pre-eclampsia a year ago. The preeclampsia was exasperated after contracting covid, and I was in the hospital at 34 weeks. They tried to slow it down with magnesium, but I was in too bad of a shape to remain pregnant, so I had to have an emergency c-section. I wanted so badly to be able to breastfeed. My baby was immediately taken to the NICU and I was too sick to even get out of bed. They brought me a pump. I listened to this on repeat while I looked at pictures of the baby to help stimulate milk production. It worked. This piece has such a triumphant ending. A year later, I have my health back and a healthy active little boy who still breastfeeds.
Thank goodness, you and your baby were saved and are thriving now. The power of music is indeed miraculously strong, a divine medicine in my opinion. It’s a gift from God. Best wishes to you and your loves ones❤
That's such a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing that. I read it while listening to the music - together they made me well up! Very best wishes to you and baby.
This piece was written for Elgar's friend, editor, and publisher, Augustus J Jaeger. Elgar struggled with depression and questioned his own worth and abilities. Through the years they worked together, Jaeger was there for Elgar through depressive episodes, and reaffirming the composers' abilities. Apparently, this is meant to be a musical telling of their relationship. It's one my favorites.
'Nimrod ....Nimrod is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. The son of Cush and therefore a great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the land of Shinar. The Bible states that he was "a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] ... began to be mighty in the earth"......Jaeger was Norwegian .Jaeger in Norwegian translates as 'Hunter'....therefore 'The 'Enigma ' of the enigma variations!.Clever old Elgar!
Me too. There's a documentary about the Battle of Britain and this sublime music is used at the end as the narrator talks of how poorly treated Hugh Dowding and Keith were following the victory of the RAF over the Luftwaffe. I always get a lump in my throat as a Spitfire and Hurricane are shown banking away. Simply the best music for such a powerful and emotional documentary.
If you told me at the age of 18 that 40 years later you would sit on your sofa and basically cry your little heart out at this piece of music I would of called you a fool proud to be British ❤
For the 80th anniversary of D-Day. In remembrance of all whom have fallen and all who participated in the campaign and are no longer with us. Thank you for your service.
This was played at my Dads funeral, his love for Elgars music was so great. This beautiful piece evokes such memories, and sums up my dad. So majestic. ❤️
I hear the first notes and immediately I relax and feel calm. Such a beautiful piece of music, I wonder whether young people today who don't grow up with classical music the way I did are even able to relate to it and appreciate it.
I choke up almost every time I hear this. Thanks to Elgar and the Queensland Symphony for helping me release my emotions when nearly nothing else makes me cry like that. I hope there is an afterlife and that Elgar knows how beloved his work has become.
I really wish this was the English National Anthem. Reminds me of summer days when I was young, looking up through elm and oak trees at the bright blue sky. A place now gone.
@@DavidMitchell-by2hr You may be right for smaller enclaves, but when I was growing up what are now enclaves were generally what you got over a great area. The majestic elms used to dominate the landscape. We had “tree noise” (leafy woods and streets, that rustled when the wind blew). Now it’s traffic noise etc. Opposite where I was brought up there were around 300 mature elm woodland, some over 100 years old, reaching up and spreading out. Dutch elm disease devastated them all and tree spaces were lost. Over development, loss of local culture, loss of manufacturing. No, this is no longer the country I knew.
!Still we remember we who live far beneath the trees........................................................................seas" (JRR Tolkien) Another great English man born in the Victorian era.
@@DavidMitchell-by2hr In Dent in the Yorkshire dales . The village and the Dale . Very little has changed ( a new car park ) since I first went there in my youth in the 1960's.
I'm a high school senior and I played this wonderful piece with my symphony March of 2023. This is so beautiful. Will never forget this. Hopefully I come back when I'm older someday and listen to this and start tearing up remembering the memories of this...
As a former high-school orchestra student, believe me when I say you will. To this day I still come back to this and many other pieces I had the opportunity to perform.
This moving, short jewel embodies the British spirit of resilience and perseverance. And you don’t have to be one to get tears in your eyes listening to it.
I live in chicago area, I have been here since 11 years old. Born near Istanbul. I am 39 now, been listening to Elgar since my early 20s. Timeless beautiful music, doesn’t matter where you are or came from, we can all appreciate the brilliance this man put on paper and this orchestra playing it so masterfully.
I'm British but I don't get patriotic when listening to this. This song and my constant battle with loneliness and depression are one and the same. I can't explain it, but this song helps me realize the few things I have in life are worth living for.
@@tombows6980 keep strong mate, never be ashamed to ask for help, and remember better times are almost certainly round the corner. All this is temporary.
one of my favorite pieces and out of many I've heard this is the best performance yet. Unlike many of the performances, the winds and strings are balanced here. Just absolutely jerks the tears right out of your face. So perfect. thanks so much Queensland S. O.
I hail from a former British colony, the British conquered us and then on certain occasions massacred us and treated us slaves, and stole and pillaged all our wealth so as a man from a former British colony I have a bitter taste for the British, but having said that we had a certain love and respect for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second, she had a dignified personality fit to be a Queen, in her younger days she was a beautiful damsel, and she lived an untarnished life so your comment corresponds perfectly to this piece of classical music.
Probably because they practice a lot, but I always wonder why no musician actually gets overcome with emotions playing a piece like this and lets a tear escape.
As a chorister I've teared up in rehearsal's a few times, not to this obviously. The adrenaline kicks in at the performance. The second half of Mozart's 'Confutatis' will do it every time. Spine tingling
Exquisite piece, beautifully performed. More so than God Save The Queen or Rule Britanna, this piece embodies the essence of 'Britishness' for me - courage, resolve and hope, tinged with a wistful melancholy and romantic yearning. It is the music we play on sad occasions, such as state funerals. And I think the music a nation turns to on such occasions says a lot more about it than its celebratory music, and more honestly expresses its deep identity.
@@johnandkathleenodonnell4130 I used to have similar sentiments about that country but not now, since Brexit. IMO it has revealed a nasty side that i didn't really know existed. Long live Europe/EU and its wonderful musical heritage
@@martinwfarrell Most people in the UK did not vote for Brexit. It was an appalling abuse of democracy that misrepresented the will of the majority. Please be assured that the majority of the british people are as open-minded, internationalist and pro-European as we were before that scandalous and fraudulent corruption of our political process.
Musicians put their hearts into their instruments and their emotions into the music and then into their orchestra so that the audience hears the music but feels what the composer is saying. This reminds me of a time when people, rich and poor, actually loved this place. You can't play with a broken heart.
What is it about this piece touches so many in such a profound and emotional way? For me, at least in part it evokes a sense of loss for a time, a place and people we knew loved and are now and forever gone.
Nimrod will forever be associated with the days following the death of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The solace in the cords, matches beyond our sorrow. Gone but never forgotten. May She rest in eternal peace.
One of the greatest piece of music by one of the most impressive composers , performed by a talented group of individuals. Thanks you for the pleasure.
I played this at a concert a few years ago, and though I am not British, it brought visions of all those who fell in the world wars and teared me up at the last rehearsal as well as at the concert itself. And even now, as I write this, tears are streaming. I am 69. It is indeed a beautiful piece that I think I first heard at the end of the movie Battle of Britain, which I watched many eons ago.
The name "Nimrod" reminds me of an aircraft that flew during WWII. Every now and then I come back to listen to this masterpiece and when I think of the name I start dreaming. I dream of being in the cockpit of the Nimrod flying into the sky, observing the english channel. I sometimes dream of seeing numerous contrails left by the countless dogfights over the skies of England. Then as the music stops I wake up to reality. But I'm always left with the need to come back into that beautiful dream... So I just rewind the tape and start dreaming again with the music in the background.
Amongst all the wonderful moments composed by Edward Elgar, surely this is the most beautiful, exquisite and heart-wrenching. If I compose even one minute of music in my lifetime as extraordinary as this, I will consider that I have achieved greatness!
The second movement of Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite is equally beautiful and moving along with his famous gorgeous Piano Concerto in A minor. We could say that also about the deeply beautiful and moving piano concertos by the equally iconic Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky! Elgar has plenty of company in this regard!
Elgar was without a doubt a musical and compositional genius. Land of Hope and Glory, Nimrod, Pomp and Circumstance, etc. - any song that captures the essence and plenitude of our country was by his hand. This song in particular never fails to bring a tear to my eye, and it's quite incredible how one man could compose something of such depth and pathos. Rest in peace, Sir Edward Elgar.
Damn, it's hard to get through this without crying. I'm not going to speculate if his love for Jaeger was romantic plutonic or fraternal, but it was an immeasureable love just the same, and to witness such an expressioin of love is humbling. Thank you Mr Elgar for sharing one of your most intimate expressions of love with the world.
@@psijicassassin7166 Wow, that's an interesting take. First, there's nothing sinister about plutonic love (the love between friends). Also, the Nimrod variation isn't sad to me.
@@psijicassassin7166 By the way.. thank you. I have misspelled platonic far too much herein. I was going to edit my posts, but I didn't want your comment to lose context, so I'll just confess to being a dumbass :)
it's hard not to think of Remembrance Sunday when I hear this The sheer depth of emotion always elicits tears.. The climax always gets me, no matter how often I have heard it. The sign of truly great music that it survives even familarity.
I heard this music for the first time at the "La Farándula" theater in Sabadell (Catalonia) at a Christmas concert. It is very emotional music and it also makes me cry every time I hear it. It suggests to me the sad and happy tribute to an entire life.
I am an American. I honor the memory, resilience, dignity of Queen Elizabeth II when I hear this piece. She lived a life of service to the Commonwealth just as she promised. She was as constant as the North Star. God Bless Her Majesty.
Wonderful music, so redolent of a bygone England. Beautiful in it's own right, it makes me weep for the England we have lost - or more truthfully - the England that has been taken from us.
One of my father's favourite classical works. Whenever it was on the radio he'd have it on loud. I remember a Thursday when i was packing to go away for a weekend and this piece was on his radio downstairs. Suddenly i just didn't want to go away and leave my dad for the weekend. I had a far bigger stereo than his radio downstairs, maybe i should have put it on it.
I lived in Malvern for several years in the 1980s and often used to visit Elgar's grave at St Wulstan's Church, to pay homage to such a great man. Elgar used to say apparently, that he drove round the beautiful Worcestershire countryside in his car and 'plucked the music out of the air'. When I hear Nimrod, I truly believe him!
Divinely beautiful melody but then that's where divinely beautiful music comes from , heaven! As a lifelong pianist/composer of lyrical pieces for piano and an American folk opera, I can personally attest to that, music from the angelic spheres, out there in the heavens as well as from the heart and soul! May Edward Elgar rest in peace on the Other Side, our "spiritual home"! "We're spiritual beings having a human experience"...the late Dr. Wayne Dyer and before him, French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in the 1700s! Hard to get this moving melody out of one's head! ❤🎼🎹🎵♥
An admirable interpretation of the famous "Nimrod"! How I wish the QSO would play the entire "Enigma Variations" beginning with the equally famous, yet simple, theme statement. Before we are lucky to have that, however, I'd highly recommend listeners try the performance of the complete "Enigma" by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (under the baton of Kaspszyk), available on RUclips. The experience may enhance your appreciation of the "Nimrod" variation, whether by the QSO or any other orchestra, even more.
I knew Elizabeth personally, she was President of my mother’s opera company. Beautiful voice and such a generous, warm and fun lady, her early passing was a tragedy and we felt the loss keenly.
I can't belive it has taken me this many years to find this good composer. Yes I heard it first through Matrix and Blade, and I had to search back to find this gentleman!. Thank you!
Loved this since I first heard it when I was 7 years old. This and Holst's Planet suite were amazing at seven and remain so at almost 70. I also love The Rolling Stones who I discovered about the same time!
This was so wonderful, it always brings tears to my eyes it is so moving, not sad tears but happy tears, although this is often played at the cenotaph on remembrance Sunday, it is just as beautiful played by a military band. so glad I found this!💖
Nimrod, a lone hunter-king of Assyria, is the name support of the most great piece of classic music of XXth century from England. Perhaps, and only perhaps, the music's names are correlated at inverse with the quality of the music they represent. Very well touched by orchestra.
I took my parents to a free QSO concert at Brisbane City Hall in maybe 2015? I was grinning like an idiot all the way through this tune! I didn't expect to ever hear it being played live, let alone so cleanly and with such restrained intensity. Then in the movie Dunkirk I wondered if I could hear little tickles of it throughout. When it was played at the end I burst into tears :-) I already loved Christopher Nolan's work but that was such a complete moment.
3:47 this note on trumpet I believe is one of my favourite single notes played in any piece of music ever composed it is just the embodiment of the sense of yearning and a melancholy joy that this piece gives me
I’ve never paid much attention to Elgar, apart from loving this piece. Anyway, as a fitting finish to a lovely weekend visit to Worcester (we were a ‘fill-in’ choir singing the services at the Cathedral whilst the choristers were on holiday), we visited Elgar’s birthplace. It was a delightful place to visit. As a bonus, and maybe because it was a bank holiday we were treated to a couple of talks about Elgar’s life and about the ‘Variations’. What an excellent visit that was.
HardThrasher’s excellent Battle of Britain history series brings me here. I cried when this played during the end of his video, and I cried again now. Incredible piece
Very touching music. My favorite variations to Elgar's work are the breif IV and know also IX. The slow built-up comprising of the Nimrod variation reminds me of the fugal second movement part of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss titled 'Of the Backworldman', it also has a very emotional built-up climax, one of my favorite pieces of music as a teenager, from a stand point of sheer impassable romantic beauty.
Agree about the final movement "EDU" - a memorable performance of which can be found played by the Warsaw Philjharmonic in their complete version of "Enigma" elsewhere on RUclips.
Beautifully played.... as a Brit in the UK I can confirm this great orchestra sounded more English than English in this famous piece.... each crescendo was beautifully executed,and the tempo was magic.
I think I first heard of the Queenslad symphony, like many other people aroud the world, when they made those very fine rerecordings of Franz Waxman film scores back in the 80' for the Varese Sarabande label. I must have had a vague notion Queensland was in Australia, but the important thing was that the recordings were extremely well done, with a seriousness and musicality you usually expect for the classical repertoire. I also realised several years later, after listening to other Waxman rerecordings, that Richard Mills was an outstanding conductor with a perfect understanding of that kind of music.
I will make sure my freshly hatched Grand daughter hears this often. Not just during a televised event, but at home when it is just right for a bit of Elgar.
My father knew Edward Elgar. As a small boy in the same village of Broadheath, he would see Elgar as an older man in his garden, he loved flowers. He would always say hello and look at my father and stop his gardening to speak to him and his brothers and sister as they walked past. I was lucky to live in the same village many years later. Sadly, now all family have gone. But what beautiful music!! I am approaching 70 years now but this moves me, such talent!
What an absolutely lovely family memory that is! Elgar was quintessentially English, a formidable creative force.
His music speaks to me. It’s so nice that your father had met Elgar ❤
WOW. That is amazing.Thnaks for sharing that
One of the best melodies of history! Kent Vogel A.S.C.A.P
I've been in Queensland in 2005, I am from Brasil. Happy to listen this orquestra from Queensland and also Love Edward Elgar, specialy this variation.
I had a premature emergency c-section due to severe pre-eclampsia a year ago. The preeclampsia was exasperated after contracting covid, and I was in the hospital at 34 weeks. They tried to slow it down with magnesium, but I was in too bad of a shape to remain pregnant, so I had to have an emergency c-section. I wanted so badly to be able to breastfeed. My baby was immediately taken to the NICU and I was too sick to even get out of bed. They brought me a pump. I listened to this on repeat while I looked at pictures of the baby to help stimulate milk production. It worked.
This piece has such a triumphant ending. A year later, I have my health back and a healthy active little boy who still breastfeeds.
Thank goodness, you and your baby were saved and are thriving now. The power of music is indeed miraculously strong, a divine medicine in my opinion. It’s a gift from God. Best wishes to you and your loves ones❤
I think you mean 'exacerbated'..
That's such a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing that. I read it while listening to the music - together they made me well up! Very best wishes to you and baby.
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@@annbretagne2108 I think we know what she means.
This piece was written for Elgar's friend, editor, and publisher, Augustus J Jaeger. Elgar struggled with depression and questioned his own worth and abilities. Through the years they worked together, Jaeger was there for Elgar through depressive episodes, and reaffirming the composers' abilities. Apparently, this is meant to be a musical telling of their relationship. It's one my favorites.
'Nimrod ....Nimrod is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. The son of Cush and therefore a great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the land of Shinar. The Bible states that he was "a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] ... began to be mighty in the earth"......Jaeger was Norwegian .Jaeger in Norwegian translates as 'Hunter'....therefore 'The 'Enigma ' of the enigma variations!.Clever old Elgar!
May not be very appropriate but.....long live depressive geniuses.....
Ik kan alleen maar zeggen FANTASTISCH, GEWELDIG mooi nummer.🙏♥️🇳🇱
@@peedee-zo1yqdon't care too much about the history .. He wrote it for me.
Arguably the most beautiful 4 minutes of music ever composed. The beating heart of Elgar's great Enigma Variations
The older I get the more this piece makes me want to cry.
I know the feeling.
The older i get the more i do cry.
Me too. There's a documentary about the Battle of Britain and this sublime music is used at the end as the narrator talks of how poorly treated Hugh Dowding and Keith were following the victory of the RAF over the Luftwaffe. I always get a lump in my throat as a Spitfire and Hurricane are shown banking away. Simply the best music for such a powerful and emotional documentary.
- agree.
- Elgar's Nimrod should be the requiem of the truly great but now dying Western Civilisation.
If you told me at the age of 18 that 40 years later you would sit on your sofa and basically cry your little heart out at this piece of music I would of called you a fool proud to be British ❤
Every time I hear it i cry too, so don't feel embarrassed. I want it played on my final trip.
I'm a yank, and I also weep at this. Those who don't, have no soul.
When I hear this I think of the young men and women who are buried far from home. #wewillrememberthem
@FluxTheFluctuator If you have that heart, why don't you stay: There are many of us.
For the 80th anniversary of D-Day. In remembrance of all whom have fallen and all who participated in the campaign and are no longer with us. Thank you for your service.
This is the single most moving piece of music ever made. lest we forget.
Agree!
This was played at my Dads funeral, his love for Elgars music was so great. This beautiful piece evokes such memories, and sums up my dad. So majestic. ❤️
I hear the first notes and immediately I relax and feel calm. Such a beautiful piece of music, I wonder whether young people today who don't grow up with classical music the way I did are even able to relate to it and appreciate it.
i performed this with an honors orchestra in high school, and it was the greatest feeling in the world
I choke up almost every time I hear this. Thanks to Elgar and the Queensland Symphony for helping me release my emotions when nearly nothing else makes me cry like that. I hope there is an afterlife and that Elgar knows how beloved his work has become.
Jesus is the way to Salvation. Repent and believe. God bless you, neighbor. And oh by the way, I agree… beautiful and lasting art!
I really wish this was the English National Anthem. Reminds me of summer days when I was young, looking up through elm and oak trees at the bright blue sky. A place now gone.
Yes, the English National Anthem but NOT the National Anthem.
That England still exists you just have to look.
@@DavidMitchell-by2hr You may be right for smaller enclaves, but when I was growing up what are now enclaves were generally what you got over a great area. The majestic elms used to dominate the landscape. We had “tree noise” (leafy woods and streets, that rustled when the wind blew). Now it’s traffic noise etc. Opposite where I was brought up there were around 300 mature elm woodland, some over 100 years old, reaching up and spreading out. Dutch elm disease devastated them all and tree spaces were lost. Over development, loss of local culture, loss of manufacturing. No, this is no longer the country I knew.
!Still we remember we who live far beneath the trees........................................................................seas" (JRR Tolkien) Another great English man born in the Victorian era.
@@DavidMitchell-by2hr In Dent in the Yorkshire dales . The village and the Dale . Very little has changed ( a new car park ) since I first went there in my youth in the 1960's.
the most beautiful melody England has ever produced
Without doubt you are right THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODY in the world.
Well, there have been a few. But this one is sure to produce a tear. (Barber? Holst?)
A REQUIEM
@@monizdm - add to them Vaughan William's Fantasia.
got this music to be played at my funeral. Its always been special too me
I'm a high school senior and I played this wonderful piece with my symphony March of 2023. This is so beautiful. Will never forget this. Hopefully I come back when I'm older someday and listen to this and start tearing up remembering the memories of this...
As a former high-school orchestra student, believe me when I say you will. To this day I still come back to this and many other pieces I had the opportunity to perform.
This moving, short jewel embodies the British spirit of resilience and perseverance.
And you don’t have to be one to get tears in your eyes listening to it.
I live in chicago area, I have been here since 11 years old. Born near Istanbul. I am 39 now, been listening to Elgar since my early 20s. Timeless beautiful music, doesn’t matter where you are or came from, we can all appreciate the brilliance this man put on paper and this orchestra playing it so masterfully.
I'm British but I don't get patriotic when listening to this. This song and my constant battle with loneliness and depression are one and the same. I can't explain it, but this song helps me realize the few things I have in life are worth living for.
@@tombows6980 keep strong mate, never be ashamed to ask for help, and remember better times are almost certainly round the corner. All this is temporary.
oh boo hoo hoo!
Probably the best orchestral version of this piece, I have ever heard. Brilliant!
Listen to the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk,you,ll get the whole Enigma Variations, it,s good!!
one of my favorite pieces and out of many I've heard this is the best performance yet. Unlike many of the performances, the winds and strings are balanced here. Just absolutely jerks the tears right out of your face. So perfect. thanks so much Queensland S. O.
I hail from a former British colony, the British conquered us and then on certain occasions massacred us and treated us slaves, and stole and pillaged all our wealth so as a man from a former British colony I have a bitter taste for the British, but having said that we had a certain love and respect for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second, she had a dignified personality fit to be a Queen, in her younger days she was a beautiful damsel, and she lived an untarnished life so your comment corresponds perfectly to this piece of classical music.
This piece of music - words can barely describe my affection for it.
Beautiful performance...no schmaltz or exaggerated slow tempos...just Elgar's magnificent music speaking for itself!!
Probably because they practice a lot, but I always wonder why no musician actually gets overcome with emotions playing a piece like this and lets a tear escape.
It happens quite a bit in rehearsals.
Let me tell you, everytime I play this piece in my orchestra I'm near tears 😂
It's because we pour all the emotions into the music
As a chorister I've teared up in rehearsal's a few times, not to this obviously. The adrenaline kicks in at the performance.
The second half of Mozart's 'Confutatis' will do it every time.
Spine tingling
Thanks for the feedback guys! Good to see that great music still has the ability to make grown men cry, and who can blame them.
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few",
Exquisite piece, beautifully performed. More so than God Save The Queen or Rule Britanna, this piece embodies the essence of 'Britishness' for me - courage, resolve and hope, tinged with a wistful melancholy and romantic yearning. It is the music we play on sad occasions, such as state funerals. And I think the music a nation turns to on such occasions says a lot more about it than its celebratory music, and more honestly expresses its deep identity.
Such a beautifully expressed comment. Thank you for sharing a bit of your sensibility. My affection for your country runs deep.
@@johnandkathleenodonnell4130 I used to have similar sentiments about that country but not now, since Brexit. IMO it has revealed a nasty side that i didn't really know existed. Long live Europe/EU and its wonderful musical heritage
@@martinwfarrell Most people in the UK did not vote for Brexit. It was an appalling abuse of democracy that misrepresented the will of the majority. Please be assured that the majority of the british people are as open-minded, internationalist and pro-European as we were before that scandalous and fraudulent corruption of our political process.
You’re Catholic aren’t you? I’m also an Englishman and agree entirely, but you speak with a spirit I think I recognise
Yes i am but i don't see the relevance of my faith.
I am not French or Italian but i love their national anthems. Music transends
Cette version est vraiment exceptionnelle d'intensité et de justesse.
Musicians put their hearts into their instruments and their emotions into the music and then into their orchestra so that the audience hears the music but feels what the composer is saying. This reminds me of a time when people, rich and poor, actually loved this place. You can't play with a broken heart.
Sometimes hearts have to break before they can learn to love ( ;
This piece allows us to hear a true crescendo. Very moving.
What is it about this piece touches so many in such a profound and emotional way?
For me, at least in part it evokes a sense of loss for a time, a place and people we knew loved and are now and forever gone.
Nimrod will forever be associated with the days following the death of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The solace in the cords, matches beyond our sorrow. Gone but never forgotten. May She rest in eternal peace.
One of the greatest piece of music by one of the most impressive composers , performed by a talented group of individuals. Thanks you for the pleasure.
For me the best bit is near the end when everything suddenly goes quiet after the tumultuous build-up. It is so peaceful and relaxing.
I played this at a concert a few years ago, and though I am not British, it brought visions of all those who fell in the world wars and teared me up at the last rehearsal as well as at the concert itself. And even now, as I write this, tears are streaming. I am 69. It is indeed a beautiful piece that I think I first heard at the end of the movie Battle of Britain, which I watched many eons ago.
Brilliantly reproduced, thank you.
A piece of music forever linked to Remembrance Day, and credited to one of the finest musicians that ever lived.
The name "Nimrod" reminds me of an aircraft that flew during WWII.
Every now and then I come back to listen to this masterpiece and when I think of the name I start dreaming.
I dream of being in the cockpit of the Nimrod flying into the sky, observing the english channel.
I sometimes dream of seeing numerous contrails left by the countless dogfights over the skies of England.
Then as the music stops I wake up to reality.
But I'm always left with the need to come back into that beautiful dream...
So I just rewind the tape and start dreaming again with the music in the background.
Amongst all the wonderful moments composed by Edward Elgar, surely this is the most beautiful, exquisite and heart-wrenching. If I compose even one minute of music in my lifetime as extraordinary as this, I will consider that I have achieved greatness!
The second movement of Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite is equally beautiful and moving along with his famous gorgeous Piano Concerto in A minor. We could say that also about the deeply beautiful and moving piano concertos by the equally iconic Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky! Elgar has plenty of company in this regard!
Cello concerto
Elgar was without a doubt a musical and compositional genius. Land of Hope and Glory, Nimrod, Pomp and Circumstance, etc. - any song that captures the essence and plenitude of our country was by his hand. This song in particular never fails to bring a tear to my eye, and it's quite incredible how one man could compose something of such depth and pathos. Rest in peace, Sir Edward Elgar.
Damn, it's hard to get through this without crying. I'm not going to speculate if his love for Jaeger was romantic plutonic or fraternal, but it was an immeasureable love just the same, and to witness such an expressioin of love is humbling. Thank you Mr Elgar for sharing one of your most intimate expressions of love with the world.
Plutonic love sounds deathly sinister and grim. It's a far cry from the sadness of the piece.
@@psijicassassin7166 Wow, that's an interesting take. First, there's nothing sinister about plutonic love (the love between friends). Also, the Nimrod variation isn't sad to me.
@@josephdadey Isn't Pluto the god of the underworld? Sounds morbid and ghastly.
@@psijicassassin7166 Yes, I believe that's true, but it's from the Greek philosopher Plato , not the Roman god Pluto.
@@psijicassassin7166 By the way.. thank you. I have misspelled platonic far too much herein. I was going to edit my posts, but I didn't want your comment to lose context, so I'll just confess to being a dumbass :)
it's hard not to think of Remembrance Sunday when I hear this The sheer depth of emotion always elicits tears.. The climax always gets me, no matter how often I have heard it. The sign of truly great music that it survives even familarity.
I heard this music for the first time at the "La Farándula" theater in Sabadell (Catalonia) at a Christmas concert. It is very emotional music and it also makes me cry every time I hear it. It suggests to me the sad and happy tribute to an entire life.
Touches the heart at its deepest, vulnerable, tender point: Thank you for giving me such a blessing!
I haven’t listened to this in a while. Yes, tears. Also almost passed out because I forgot to breathe.
Beautiful….never get tired of listening to this wonderful piece of music!
I am an American. I honor the memory, resilience, dignity of Queen Elizabeth II when I hear this piece. She lived a life of service to the Commonwealth just as she promised. She was as constant as the North Star. God Bless Her Majesty.
Thank you for your beautiful words we will miss her.
what a lovely comment, Thank you.
Indeed. I, too.
Muse: the globalist
Thankyou beautiful
Four minutes of absolute beauty..... 🎶
Thank you, QSO. 🙏
M 🦘🏏😎
Wonderful music, so redolent of a bygone England. Beautiful in it's own right, it makes me weep for the England we have lost - or more truthfully - the England that has been taken from us.
Well said that man.
What a stunning performance of this lovely piece. Brought tears to my eyes.
One of my father's favourite classical works. Whenever it was on the radio he'd have it on loud. I remember a Thursday when i was packing to go away for a weekend and this piece was on his radio downstairs. Suddenly i just didn't want to go away and leave my dad for the weekend. I had a far bigger stereo than his radio downstairs, maybe i should have put it on it.
Beautifully performed. Excellent tempo, rendering mystery and bliss to this masterpiece.
I lived in Malvern for several years in the 1980s and often used to visit Elgar's grave at St Wulstan's Church, to pay homage to such a great man. Elgar used to say apparently, that he drove round the beautiful Worcestershire countryside in his car and 'plucked the music out of the air'. When I hear Nimrod, I truly believe him!
As a guitarist musician and songwriter having played in bands from 1996 onwards this peice of music still disturbs me emotionally. Beautiful
The first classical piece of music I remember hearing as a child and still my favourite
Excellent performance. Love the slow and steady buildup to the crescendo and then down to end. Well done
This is a beautiful rendering of a masterpiece. There are infinite interpretations however this one is decidedly unique.
Divinely beautiful melody but then that's where divinely beautiful music comes from , heaven! As a lifelong pianist/composer of lyrical pieces for piano and an American folk opera, I can personally attest to that, music from the angelic spheres, out there in the heavens as well as from the heart and soul! May Edward Elgar rest in peace on the Other Side, our "spiritual home"! "We're spiritual beings having a human experience"...the late Dr. Wayne Dyer and before him, French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in the 1700s! Hard to get this moving melody out of one's head! ❤🎼🎹🎵♥
An admirable interpretation of the famous "Nimrod"! How I wish the QSO would play the entire "Enigma Variations" beginning with the equally famous, yet simple, theme statement. Before we are lucky to have that, however, I'd highly recommend listeners try the performance of the complete "Enigma" by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (under the baton of Kaspszyk), available on RUclips. The experience may enhance your appreciation of the "Nimrod" variation, whether by the QSO or any other orchestra, even more.
I knew Elizabeth personally, she was President of my mother’s opera company. Beautiful voice and such a generous, warm and fun lady, her early passing was a tragedy and we felt the loss keenly.
Absolutely gorgeous......so well done my friends
I can't belive it has taken me this many years to find this good composer. Yes I heard it first through Matrix and Blade, and I had to search back to find this gentleman!. Thank you!
Quite possibly the most perfect rendition of Nimrod I’ve heard. Thank you!
What a beautiful, beautiful piece.
How can a mere mortal write such wonderful music? How wonderfully gifted.
❤ bravi. Bravi tutti. Le percussioni... bravissimo.
Loved this since I first heard it when I was 7 years old. This and Holst's Planet suite were amazing at seven and remain so at almost 70. I also love The Rolling Stones who I discovered about the same time!
Absolute perfection.
Played at my fathers funeral. Nuff said or the tears might start. Thanks Dad. Love you.
This was so wonderful, it always brings tears to my eyes it is so moving, not sad tears but happy tears, although this is often played at the cenotaph on remembrance Sunday, it is just as beautiful played by a military band. so glad I found this!💖
My wife’s favourite piece of music. Thank you for posting.
I was today years old when I learned that this piece is the product of bromance. Brilliant. ❤
Formidable interprétation ! Merci...
A perfect tempo and a perfect balance between different instruments of the orchestra
Beautiful, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, just Beautiful, this always makes me emotional.
One of the best renditios of Nimrod I've ever heard
Nimrod, a lone hunter-king of Assyria, is the name support of the most great piece of classic music of XXth century from England.
Perhaps, and only perhaps, the music's names are correlated at inverse with the quality of the music they represent.
Very well touched by orchestra.
A great bit of classical music it's one of my favs
Where has this sort of talent gone?
I took my parents to a free QSO concert at Brisbane City Hall in maybe 2015? I was grinning like an idiot all the way through this tune! I didn't expect to ever hear it being played live, let alone so cleanly and with such restrained intensity. Then in the movie Dunkirk I wondered if I could hear little tickles of it throughout. When it was played at the end I burst into tears :-) I already loved Christopher Nolan's work but that was such a complete moment.
There are no words to describe how much this piece,this version,moves me. Thank you
Encontré la versión en Spotify y ahora la busco aquí, me ha encantado demasiado! Es una belleza exquisita...
3:47 this note on trumpet I believe is one of my favourite single notes played in any piece of music ever composed it is just the embodiment of the sense of yearning and a melancholy joy that this piece gives me
I am always moved by this glorious music.
My orchestra will be performing this in honor of her late majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Such a moving and majestic piece of music.
No one cares
@@chrisg0001 u cared enough to even say that lmao
The only piece of genius that cannot be bested, ever more.
What an amazing piece of music and so beautifully performed.
what a great piece and what a wonderful team performance from all.
Some pieces of music feel like they existed before time began. This is one such piece. Thanks for bringing it to us QSO
Glorious, moving , so beautifully played.Bravo 🎉🎉
I’ve never paid much attention to Elgar, apart from loving this piece. Anyway, as a fitting finish to a lovely weekend visit to Worcester (we were a ‘fill-in’ choir singing the services at the Cathedral whilst the choristers were on holiday), we visited Elgar’s birthplace. It was a delightful place to visit. As a bonus, and maybe because it was a bank holiday we were treated to a couple of talks about Elgar’s life and about the ‘Variations’. What an excellent visit that was.
Such a majestic and emotional music piece. This will always remind me of Queen Elizabeth 2, rip. ❤
Que musica mas hermosa, llega al alma el corazon. Saludos desde Chile
HardThrasher’s excellent Battle of Britain history series brings me here. I cried when this played during the end of his video, and I cried again now. Incredible piece
Very touching music. My favorite variations to Elgar's work are the breif IV and know also IX.
The slow built-up comprising of the Nimrod variation reminds me of the fugal second movement part of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss titled 'Of the Backworldman', it also has a very emotional built-up climax, one of my favorite pieces of music as a teenager, from a stand point of sheer impassable romantic beauty.
Agree about the final movement "EDU" - a memorable performance of which can be found played by
the Warsaw Philjharmonic in their complete version of "Enigma" elsewhere on RUclips.
Esta música llega hasta lo más profundo de mi ser.
❤ IT S0 MUCH❤
Beautifully played.... as a Brit in the UK I can confirm this great orchestra sounded more English than English in this famous piece.... each crescendo was beautifully executed,and the tempo was magic.
So beautiful and evocative of an England now lost.
Quina delicadesa i quanta bellesa en aquesta magnífica composició.
Breathtaking performance😍. And so many familiar faces😉.
A stalagmite with no stalactite above it brought me here. This music touched my heart and soul.
I think I first heard of the Queenslad symphony, like many other people aroud the world, when they made those very fine rerecordings of Franz Waxman film scores back in the 80' for the Varese Sarabande label. I must have had a vague notion Queensland was in Australia, but the important thing was that the recordings were extremely well done, with a seriousness and musicality you usually expect for the classical repertoire. I also realised several years later, after listening to other Waxman rerecordings, that Richard Mills was an outstanding conductor with a perfect understanding of that kind of music.
I will make sure my freshly hatched Grand daughter hears this often. Not just during a televised event, but at home when it is just right for a bit of Elgar.
Fair play Aussie, from the UK. That was amazing, good on ya.
I love this piece, and this is in my opinion the best performance available on RUclips. The others get the tempo too slow.