"A musical mystery. Sir Edward Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' have confounded music scholars and music fans since its premiere. Elgar tells us that the theme is never actually played during the piece. So ...

For years, critics considered Glenn Gould's interpretation of "The Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach to be the gold standard. Now, there's a new contender. With Serena Altschul, we take ...

But the theme, 20 short variations and coda bulge with so much rhythmic and coloristic appeal that it's hard to imagine the music seemed so forbidding at its premiere. Ax gave Copland's explosion of ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

It seemed a simple request. In 1819, an Italian music publisher named Anton Diabelli asked Ludwig van Beethoven to be among the composers who would write a variation on a simple little 50-second waltz ...

Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley on BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds New to BBC Radio 4 Extra. To mark the centenary of her birth, Stuart Barr looks back at the glittering career of ...