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Borrowing Music
For centuries, composers have borrowed other people's tunes to form the theme for a set of variations.
Possibly the most used theme is from Paganini's Caprice No 24 for solo violin. With the help of Stephen Johnson , Verity Sharp sets out to explain the popularity of this theme.

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Stephen Johnson
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Verity Sharp
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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