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Episode 351 – Andrew Lloyd Webber – Variations

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History:

  • The Lloyd Webber brothers grew up very close and shared an obvious background in music. The different styles they played made it unlikely that they would ever collaborate.
  • The two bet on a Leyton Orient football match. Andrew lost and his payment was having to write Julian’s cello work.
  • Andrew chose the theme of Paganini’s 24th caprice and added 23 variations for cello and rock band.
  • The work was premiered at the 1977 Sydmonton Festival and performed by the rock band Colosseum II with julian on cello.
  • It was rearranged and recorded in 1978.

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

  1. “Introduction”
  2. “Theme (Paganini Caprice in A minor No. 24) and Variations 1-4”
  3. “Variations 5 and 6”
  4. “Variation 7”
  5. “Variation 8”
  6. “Variation 9”
  7. “Variation 10”
  8. “Variations 11-15 (including the Tributes to Hank Marvin and Prokofiev)”

Side Two:

  1. “Variation 16”
  2. “Variations 13-14 Varied” (listed as 14-15)
    • In the musical for “School of Rock” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber there is a scene where Dewey Finn and Ned Schneebly play Guitar Hero and are playing Variations.
    • The notes in the chorus on the song “Stick It To The Man” is taken from Variation 14.
  3. “Variation 17”
  4. “Variation 18” (Rachmaninoff‘s Variation 18)
    • “Variation 18” is an instrumental version of the title song from the first Rice and Webber musical, The Likes of Us (1965, unperformed until 2005)
  5. “Variations 19, 20 and 5 Varied (listed as 6)”
  6. “Variations 21 and 22”
  7. “Variation 23”

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Reception and Charts:

  •  It reached Number 2 on the UK album charts.

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