I might be missing more neurotransmitters these days, but I recall a posting that wanted to know about what other works there might be that were, like the Warlock Capriol Suite, based on music by other composers. I checked the list archives and could not find the posting...so, if my memory is completely in error...well I hate being reminded of having "senior moments"... At any rate I recall such a recent posting and finally tracked down a list I compiled some time ago and figured that it might be better to provide some assistance, even if it meant my having the appearance of being delusional... The pieces below are more transcriptions and/or Fantasias than highly developed variations. Any additions would be most welcome. Baird: Colas Breugnon, Suite in Old Style (folkmusic) Bantock: Old English Suite (Farnaby, Byrd, et al) Barbirolli: Elizabethan Suite (various) Oboe Concerto (Pergolesi) Purcell Suite Beecham: Piano Concerto (Handel) Amaryllis (Handel) The Faithful Shepherd (Handel) The Gods go a-begging (Handel) Love in Bath [ballet, the Great Elopement] (Handel) Origin of a Design (Handel) Bennett: Commemoration Symphony (Foster) Fun and Faith of William Billings Suite of old American Dances Binge: Mendelssohniana Bridgewater: Old English Music (Boyce, Lawes, Jones, Purcell) Old French Music (Martini, Leclair, Couperin, Corette) Britten: Matinees musicale (Rossini) Soirees musicales (Rossini) Canning: Fantasy on Theme by Justin Morgan Casella: Paganiniana Scarlattiana Coates: Suite for Strings (Purcell) Dallapiccola: Tartiniana Nos. 1,2 Egk: French Suite after Rameau Foss: Baroque Variations Salamon Rossi Suite Gerhard: Pedrelliana Gould: American Ballads Cowboy Rhapsody Foster Gallery Serenade of Carols Spirituals for Strings Vivaldi Gallery Gross: Dussekiana for Violin and Orch. Henze: Telemanniana Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Weber Suite of French Dances (various) Hogwood: Suite (Purcell) Holst: The Married Beau Suite (Purcell) Mackerras: The Lady and the Fool (Verdi) Malipiero: Vivaldiana Milhaud: Suite Provencal Mohaupt: Offenbachiana Orban: Tres Versiones Sinfonicas (Milan, Leonin) Panufnik: Suite of Ancient Polish Airs and Dances Pinnock: Occasional Suite (Handel) Passacaille, Gigue and Menuet (Handel) Poulenc: Suite Francaise Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for Lute (various) La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini) La Pentola Magica (Russian melodies) Rossinianna Sevres de la vielle France (French themes from 17th & 18th C.) Gli uccelli (Pasquini, Rameau, et al) Rodrigo: Fantasia Gentlehombre Rosenthal: Gaite Parisienne Offenbachiana Rubbra: Fantasy on a theme by Machaut Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby Schoenberg: Concerto for Cello and Orch. (Monn) Concerto for String Quartet and Orch (Handel) Schuman: New England Triptych (Billings) Orchestra Song Stravinsky: Bluebird pas de deux (Tchaikovsky) Monumentum pro Gesualdo Pulcinella (Pergolesi et al.) Tchaikovsky: Mozartiana Tippett: Fantasia on a theme by Corelli Shires Suite (Various) Tomassini: Good Humored Ladies (Scarlatti) VaughanWilliams: Fantasia on Greensleeves Fantasia on theme by Thomas Tallis Fantasia on Christmas Carols Walton: The Wise Virgins (Bach) Warlock: Capriol Suite (Various) Wuorinen: The Magic Art (Purcell) Zwilich: Concerto Grosso (Handel) Karl