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.
Sometimes it’s difficult to know whether to call a piece of music romantic, but there’s no question when the composer puts the term in the title. The helpful composers represented today are Emmanuel Chabrier, Antonín Dvořák, Benjamin Godard, Howard Hanson, Darius Milhaud and Jean Sibelius.
Today’s theme is collaboration. You’ll hear a Grand Military Symphony (with obbligato violin and cello) by a pair of brothers, a seventieth birthday tribute to Leonard Bernstein by eight composers, a tongue-in-cheek salute to Wagner by two French composers, a Parisian ballet by ten composers and a piano concerto by a committee.
With fall just a day away, today’s program brings you music about the four seasons by Lawrence Ashmore, John Cage, Louis Spohr and Antonio Vivaldi (as arranged and adapted by Nicolas Chédeville).
With fall just a day away, today’s program brings you music about the four seasons by Lawrence Ashmore, John Cage, Louis Spohr and Antonio Vivaldi (as arranged and adapted by Nicolas Chédeville).
