Here's one that should be fun. A conductor friend of mine asked about British orchestral variations for a possible CD. I have bounced the idea of the British Music list and the answers are still coming in; I thought you lot would be a fruitful lot for some collective brainpicking. So far we have: Malcolm Arnold Variations on a Theme of Ruth Gipps Arthur Bliss Meditations on a Theme of John Blow Havergal Brian Fantastic Variations (on 'Three Blind Mice') Burlesque Variations on an Original Theme Percy Grainger Green Bushes Kleine Variationen-Form (both recently recorded by Hickox in the Chandos complete Grainger series) John McCabe Variations on a Theme of Hartmann Robert Simpson Variations on a Theme of Nielsen (from the incidental music to Ebbe Skammelsen) (will doubtless be recorded for the Hyperion Simpson series) Ronald Stevenson 18 Variations on a Bach Chorale Simple Variations on Purcell's 'New Scotch Tune' (6') Variations Vocalises sur deux themes de 'Les Troyens" (Vocalise Variations on Two Themes from 'The Trojans') Cedric Thorpe Davie Diversions on a Theme of Dr Arne Ralph Vaughan Williams Variations for Brass Band (orch. Gordon Jacob) Any more for any more? I'll post the complete (ha!) list when your ideas are all in. Cheers Martin Anderson Toccata Press http://www.classical.net/music/books/toccata/