Your Favourite Theme-and-Variations

[kyjo]

About the first piece I heard by him. I was stunned, even if the recording was abysmal. #memories

Don't tell me hashtags have spread to GMG?!

[amw]

Beethoven - 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
Beethoven - 5 1/2 Variations on a Variation of a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 111/ii

Only two I'll ever need.

Well, ok, these are also pretty nice:

Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile - 4th movement of Op. 131
Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo - 3rd movement of Op. 109
Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile - 2nd movement of Op. 127

Bach - Goldberg Variations
Brahms - Handel Variations

Ginastera, Variaciones concertantes

Bartok's Second Violin Concerto.

as well as the second movement of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 2.

[aquablob]

Beethoven - 5 1/2 Variations on a Variation of a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 111/ii

True and underappreciated.

[Christo]

Don't tell me hashtags have spread to GMG?!

#notyet

[kyjo]

#notyet

#stophashtagsfromspreadingtoGMG

[Brian]

#stophashtagsfromspreadingtoGMG

#toolate

[mc ukrneal]

At the tone, please say your name followed by the pound sign (#)... Why do they call that a pound sign anyway. Is it a British English convention?

[listener]

The #symbol is also called an octothorpe.

[kyjo]

The #symbol is also called an octothorpe.

You have truly enlightened me, sir!

[jochanaan]

The #symbol is also called an octothorpe.

Hmmm...Sounds like a new kind of musical instrument!

[listener]

I usually listen to it as a long tone poem, but clearly marked in the score, R. STRAUSS's Don Quixote is a theme and variations

[vandermolen]

Second part of Prokofiev Symphony 2
Rubbra Symphony 7 last movement
Vaughan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Bliss, Meditations on a theme of John Blow.
Brahms Symphony 4
Parry Symphonic Variations

[kyjo]

Rubbra Symphony 7 last movement
Brahms Symphony 4

Aren't these two passacaglias? In any case, the Rubbra is amazing. It's my favorite symphonic movement of his-spiritually uplifting and nobly sublime.

[listener]

Havergal Brian   Burlesque Variations on an Original Theme (1903)

and also BRIAN's Fantasy Variations on an Old Rhyme - on Three Blind Mice !

[vandermolen]

Aren't these two passacaglias? In any case, the Rubbra is amazing. It's my favorite symphonic movement of his-spiritually uplifting and nobly sublime.

Yes - my ignorance. The Braga Santos Symphonic Variations certainly get my vote.

[starrynight]

Mozart's divertimento K334 has a nice set.

[admiralackbar]

One that hasn't been mentioned that is, and remains, a favorite of mine – Brahms: Variations on an Original Theme in D Major (Op. 21, No. 1).

I only have the recording by Katchen. It's fine, but I can imagine a better one. (I wish Radu Lupu had recorded it...)

[Cato]

Skimming through and seeing Rachmaninov (naturally) mentioned, I would like to propose that his tone-poem Isle of the Dead is a set of variations on the Dies Irae.