Theme & Variations introduces a new topic each week, presenting a wide range of music associated with that theme. Drawn from a millennium of Western classical music, the selections are an eclectic mix of familiar favorites and rarities. Theme and Variations is produced locally in Discover Classical's studios by host Joe Law.
What’s in a name? This week’s program explores that question with music by composers who used pseudonyms. They’re best known as Kenneth J. Alford, Claude Arrieu, Stanley Dickson, Werner Egk, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Mrs. Philharmonica, Poldowski, Giovanni Punto, Henri Sauguet, Èmile Waldteufel and Peter Warlock.
Discover Classical turns 40 on November 11. This week’s program throws an early birthday party with music composed especially for birthdays. The musical greetings are by J. S. Bach, Peter Heidrich, Clara Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Strauss II, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and Peter Warlock.
This week you’ll hear the first of two programs of music by composers who were part of Beethoven’s circle. Included this week are Franz Clement, Ignaz Moscheles, Ferdinand Ries and Archduke Rudloph of Austria.
This week brings you a second program of music by composers who were part of Beethoven’s circle. You’ll hear from Carl Czerny, Domenico Dragonetti, Anton Reicha and Joseph Wölfl.
