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.
Travel back to the 1939 World’s Fair and music heard during British Week, most of it commissioned for that event. The composers are Arnold Bax Arthur Bliss, Eugene Goosens and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
All the music on this week’s program was first heard 200 years ago. The featured composers are Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, Vincenzo Bellini, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Louis Spohr and Nicola Vaccai.
It’s time to return to the musical form this program is named for, with pairs of variations based on the same theme. The music is by Adolphe Adam, Ernst von Dohnányi, Emilia Giuliani-Guglielmi, Moritz von Lichnowsky, Nicolo Paganini, Antonio Salieri, Camillo Sivori and Antonio Vivaldi.
