Theme & Variations

SUNDAYS @ 2PM

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.

10/4

Music inspired by legends of King Arthur is in store this week. The composers are Arnold Bax, Benjamin Britten, Elisabetta Brusa, Ernest Chausson, Louis Coerne, Edward MacDowell and Henry Purcell. 

 

10/11

This week, you’re music invited to travel back two centuries for music composed or published in 1826. It’s by Ludwig van Beethoven, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber.

 

10/18

This week’s program features music that puts two identical solo instruments in the spotlight. The composers are J. S. Bach, Giovanni Bottesini, Philip Glass, Franz Krommer, Francis Poulenc, Antonio Rosetti and Antonio Vivaldi.

 

10/25

The ongoing celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence continues this week with music by six living American composers: John Adams, William Bolcom, Valerie Coleman, Missy Mazzoli, Kevin Puts and Eric Whitacre.