Elgar Enigma Variations - the "enigma" is BACH

n.b. German musical notation

corresponds to the notes

The mosaic fits so perfectly that surely there can be no argument;

and the Auld Lang Syners and Prague-symphony-ers

need to be silenced once and for all. Kenneth Hunt, 31 August 1994, Melbourne, Australia.

There is a wonderful moment at the end of one of the later variations - XII (B.G.N.) Andante - when a solo cello poignantly states the "B-A-C-" but the "H" is

swallowed up rather rudely by the clarinet starting the next movement - XIII Romanza, Moderato. (By the way, Kenneth Hunt was a clarinetist!)

KHH Obituary