Programming - January 2014

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Starting this month, all of our French content is hosted on l'Idée Fixe an we will no longer be doing bilingual blogs "as a matter of course" / A compter de ce mois-ci, nous mettons fin à nos billets bilingues. Toutes nos activités françaises sont dorénavant limitées à notre nouveau portail l'Idée Fixe.

Monthly Theme

It's a simple - and popular - formula: a theme and variations on thts theme. All of this month's montages will explore this formula.

Friday Blog and Podcast

• January 3 – T & V "Paganini Edition": Paganini's 24th Caprice for Solo Violin is in the form of... a theme and variations! It has also inspired the likes of Brahms, Liszt and Rachmaninov. http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/01/montage-137-theme-and-variations.html
• January 10 - T & V "Beethoven Edition":  Many works for piano by Ludwig follow the T & V formula. So does a work for 2 pianos by Saint-Saens inspired by a Beethoven sonata. http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/01/montage-138-theme-and-variations.html
• January 17 – T & V "Songbook Edition": These T & V's are based on folk or poular songs. Works by Mozart, Arban, Kodaly and Gershwin. http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/01/montage-139-theme-and-variations.html
• January 24 – T & V "Piano Edition": Piano variations by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Webern and others. http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/01/montage-140-theme-and-variations-piano.html
• January 31– T & V "Orchestra Edition":  Variations for orchestra, featuring Elgar, Britten and others. http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/2014/01/montage-141-theme-and-variations.html

Pierre’s Tuesday Blog

• January 7 – Pierre’s Podcast Vault Selection of the Month – Our :Homage to Mozart" montage from 2012.  The montage is presented on our Pod-O-Matic Channel until 31 January. http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1360-tribute-mozart.html
• January 14 – Sweet Tchaikovsky Suitess – A YouTube playlist  of some of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral suites. No. 3 has a great T & V movement... http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1359-sweet-tchaikovsky-suites.html
• January 21  – Once Upon the Internet –  Downloaded from MP3.COM,  a set of Mozart pianio sonatas. http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/itywltmt/1363-four-mozart-piano-sonatas.html
• January 28  – La Chronique du Disque – This month, selections from Sibelius, Mahler, Arthur Fiedler, Martha Argerich and Maxim Shostakovich.

Once or Twice a Fortnight

Our complete opera this month will be Nelligan by Andre Gagnon, and a Podcast Encore from 2011 "Cowboy Classics".

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BREAKING NEWS

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Maestro Claudio Abbado on January 20 at the ripe old age of 80:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/10583578/Claudio-Abbado-Italian-conductor-dies-aged-80.html