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.
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.
Four symphonies by French composers are in store on this week’s program. Those symphonists are Joseph Bologne (the Chevalier Saint-Georges), Paul Dukas, Louise Farrenc and Jean Françaix.
This week’s program brings you nocturnes by Benjamin Britten, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Frederic Delius, Antonín Dvořák, Morton Lauridsen and P. I. Tchaikovsky.
As in poker, four of a kind is a winning combination in music, as you’ll hear on today’s program of compositions featuring four identical instruments. The composers are Bernhard Alt, Carl Czerny, Ulysses Kay, Joaquin Rodrigo, Robert Schumann, Giuseppe Valentini and Antonio Vivaldi (as adapted by J. S. Bach).
