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 the first of two programs paying tribute to musicians who died in 2024. The composers represented are Leslie Adams, Péter Eötvös, Alexander Goehr and Peter Schickele. The performers are Jodie Devos, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Murray, Ewa Podleś and Maurizio Pollini.
Today’s program invites you to travel back two centuries for music composed in 1825 by Ludwig van Beethoven, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Fanny Mendelssohn, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, and Car Maria von Weber.
This week brings you a second program paying tribute to musicians who died in 2024. The composers represented are Alexander Knaifel, Barbara Kolb, Aribert Reimann, Wolfgang Rihm and Paul Schoenfield. The performers are April Cantelo, Andrew Davis, Steve Davislim, Byron Janis, Benjamin Luxon, Leif Segerstam and Colin Tilney.
