Musical portraits and pure, soaring beauty.

Dan the bulldog, Dorabella with her infectious giggle, and the noble, eloquent Nimrod – Elgar’s Enigma Variations are an unforgettable musical portrait of the friends who made him the man he was, right here in the Midlands 125 years ago. But it’s much more than that, and tonight Kazuki Yamada joins violinist Maria Dueñas to pair it with a masterpiece that Elgar loved throughout his life: Beethoven’s radiant Violin Concerto.