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.
October’s programs are bringing you music inspired by literature, this week with music that takes plays, poems, and novels of Victor Hugo as a starting point. The composers are Léo Delibes, César Franck, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt and Giuseppe Verdi.
October's programs bring you music inspired by literature, this week featuring music based on the works of the great German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann. The composers are Adolphe Adam, Ferruccio Busoni, Leo Delibes, Jacques Offenbach, Ture Rangstrom, and P. I. Tchaikovsky.
October’s programs have been bringing you music inspired by literature, concluding this week with music based on the works of Oscar Wilde. The composers are John Alden Carpenter, Eric Coates, Edison Denisov, Henry Kimball Hadley and Liza Lehmann.
October’s programs have been bringing you music inspired by literature, concluding this week with music based on the works of Oscar Wilde. The composers are John Alden Carpenter, Eric Coates, Edison Denisov, Henry Kimball Hadley and Bernard Herrmann.
