Enigma Variations discography
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Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations has received more than sixty recordings since the first version, recorded under the baton of the composer in 1924. The first two recordings were made by the old acoustic process. Following the introduction of the microphone and electrical recording in 1925, Elgar re-recorded the work, taking advantage of the greatly increased realism of the new process. New recordings of the Variations were later made following the introduction of the long playing record in the early 1950s, and after the introduction of stereophonic recording towards the end of the decade. Details of the recordings, below, are taken from The Gramophone.[http://www.gramophone.net/Search/Results/Elgar+AND+Enigma The Gramophone magazine]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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| Conductor | Orchestra | Label | Date |
| The composer
|untitled |1924 |
| Sir Henry Wood
|New Queen's Hall |1925 |
| The composer
|Royal Albert Hall |His Master's Voice |1927 |
| Sir Hamilton Harty
|Columbia |1932 |
| Arturo Toscanini
|His Master's Voice |1935 |
| Sir Henry Wood
|Queen's Hall |1936 |
| Sir Adrian Boult
|BBC Symphony |His Master's Voice |1936 |
| Malcolm Sargent
|National Symphony |Decca |1945 |
| John Barbirolli
|Hallé |His Master's Voice |1948 |
| Walter Goehr
|Concert Hall Symphony |Nixa |1953 |
| Sir Malcolm Sargent
|Decca |1953 |
| Sir Adrian Boult
|His Master's Voice |1953 |
| George Weldon
|Columbia |1954 |
| Arturo Toscanini
|RCA |1954 |
| Sir Thomas Beecham
|1955 |
| Sir John Barbirolli
|Hallé |Pye |1957 |
| William Steinberg
|1957 |
| Sir Malcolm Sargent
|Philharmonia |His Master's Voice |1960 |
| Pierre Monteux
|London Symphony |RCA |1961 |
| Sir Adrian Boult
|London Philharmonic |1961 |
| Pierre Monteux
|London Symphony |BBC |
| Sir John Barbirolli
|Philharmonia |His Master's Voice |1963 |
| Colin Davis
|London Symphony |Philips |1965 |
| Sir Malcolm Sargent
|BBC Symphony |BBC |1966 |
| Constantin Silvestri
|BBC |
| Sir Adrian Boult
|London Symphony |His Master's Voice |1970 |
| Leopold Stokowski
|Decca |1972 |
| Eugene Ormandy
|CBS |1972 |
| Zubin Mehta
|Decca |1973 |
| Norman Del Mar
|Royal Philharmonic |Contour |1975 |
| Eugen Jochum
|London Symphony |DG |1975 |
| Andrew Davis
|1975 |
| Bernard Haitink
|London Philharmonic |Philips |1975 |
| Sir Georg Solti
|Decca |1976 |
| Daniel Barenboim
|London Philharmonic |CBS |1976 |
| Sir Charles Groves
|His Master's Voice |1978 |
| Neville Marriner
|Philips |1979 |
| Sir Alexander Gibson
|RCA |1979 |
| Andrew Davis
|Philharmonia |CBS |1983 |
| Vernon Handley
|London Philharmonic |EMI |1983 |
| Leonard Bernstein
|BBC Symphony |DG |1984 |
| Sir Charles Mackerras
|London Philharmonic |His Masters' Voice |1986 |
| Yehudi Menuhin
|Royal Philharmonic |Philips |1986 |
| André Previn
|Royal Philharmonic |Philips |1987 |
| Andrew Litton
|Royal Philharmonic |1988 |
| Barry Tuckwell
|London Symphony |Pickwick |1989 |
| Hilary Davan Wetton
|London Philharmonic |Collins |1989 |
| Bryden Thomson
|London Philharmonic |1989 |
| William Boughton
|English Symphony |1989 |
| Leonard Slatkin
|London Philharmonic |RCA |1989 |
| Giuseppe Sinopoli
|Philharmonia |DG |1989 |
| David Zinman
|1989 |
| Sir Edward Downes
|BBC Philharmonic |Conifer |1991 |
| Andrew Davis
|BBC Symphony |1991 |
| Charles Dutoit
|Decca |1991 |
| Sir Simon Rattle
|EMI |1992 |
| James Levine
|Sony |1992 |
| Sir Neville Marriner
|Academy of St Martin in the Fields |Capriccio |1993 |
| Christopher Seaman
|National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain |Classics |1993 |
| Rolf Kleinert
|Berlin Classics |1996 |
| Sir Georg Solti
|Decca |1997 |
| Adrian Leaper
|Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony |1997 |
| George Hurst
|Bournemouth Symphony |Naxos |1998 |
| Stanisław Skrowaczewski
|Saarbrücken Radio Symphony |Arte Nova |1998 |
| Paul Daniel
|London Philharmonic |1999 |
| Sir John Eliot Gardiner
|Vienna Philharmonic |DG |2002 |
| Sir Mark Elder
|Hallé |Hallé |2003 |
| Sakari Oramo
|City of Birmingham Symphony |CBSO |2007 |
| Sir Colin Davis
|London Symphony |LSO Live |2007 |
| Vladimir Ashkenazy
|Sydney Symphony |Exton |2008{{Cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/elgar-enigma-variations-in-the-south-mw0002112573 | title=Elgar: Enigma Variations; in the South - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic | website=AllMusic }}{{Cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Variations-Overture-South-Elgar/dp/B002KJG7QK/ | title=Enigma Variations: Overture in the South | website=Amazon }} |
| Sir Simon Rattle
|EMI |2012{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQWAO9d43LY | title=Elgar: Enigma Variations / Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker | website=YouTube }}http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/play/2519-4{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} |
| Andrew Constantine
|BBC National Orchestra of Wales |Orchid Classics |2017 |
| David Bernard
|Recursive Classics |2022 |