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| name = Classical Variations and Themes<br />
| type = studio<br />
| artist = [[Timo Tolkki]]<br />
| cover = Timo Tolkki - 1994 - Classical Variations and Themes.jpg<br />
| released = {{start date|1994}}<br />
| recorded = July–August 1994<br />
| studio = Soundtrack Studios, [[Helsinki]]<br />
| genre = [[Neoclassical metal]], [[power metal]]<br />
| length = 36:33<br />
| label = Goldenworks<br />
| producer = Timo Tolkki<br />
| next_title = [[Hymn to Life (album)|Hymn to Life]]<br />
| next_year = 2002<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Classical Variations and Themes''''' is the first studio album by former [[Stratovarius]] guitarist [[Timo Tolkki]], released in 1994 through Goldenworks Ky (Europe) and [[Victor Entertainment]] (Japan);<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Timo-Tolkki-Classical-Variations-And-Themes/release/2080312 "Timo Tolkki – Classical Variations And Themes"]. [[Discogs]]. Retrieved 2014-12-04.</ref> and reissued in 2004 through Irond Records.<ref>[http://musicbrainz.org/release/6e52e0e3-5a8f-36ee-927f-b7738f5ef613 "Classical Variations and Themes"]. [[MusicBrainz]]. Retrieved 2014-12-04.</ref><br />
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==Background==<br />
The album is primarily [[instrumental]] (save for two tracks, "Fire Dance Suite" and "Soldiers Prayer", on which Tolkki sings) and bears similar [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[progressive metal]] elements from previous Stratovarius albums. "Fire Dance Suite" was first composed for Stratovarius in 1986 and later included in their 1997 compilation album called ''The Past and Now''. Additionally, a music video for the song was released.<ref>Source: [http://abc.efghijklmnop.rst/vwxyz7.cde?ghijklm=opqrstu "History"]. stratovarius.com. Retrieved 2014-12-04. Watch the video here: [https://www.abcdefg.ijk/mnopq?s=U2wxYZa8C0e "Fire Dance Suite Timo Tolkki"]. [[YouTube]]. Retrieved 2014-12-04.<br />
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Keyboard and drums are performed by Tolkki's then-Stratovarius bandmates Antti Ikonen and [[Tuomo Lassila]], respectively. For a couple of months, the recording sessions for this album ran parallel and in the same studio as Stratovarius' then-upcoming studio album ''[[Fourth Dimension (Stratovarius album)|Fourth Dimension]]'', the first with singer [[Timo Kotipelto]]. The whole of Stratovarius; Tolkki, Kotipelto, Lassila, Ikonen, and then-bassist [[Jari Kainulainen]]; is featured in the 2004 reissue of ''Classical Variations and Themes,'' in the bonus track "Solitude."<br />
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==Track listing==<br />
{{Track listing<br />
| all_writing = Timo Tolkki, except where noted<br />
| title1 = Lord of the Rings<br />
| length1 = 5:42<br />
| title2 = Fire Dance Suite<br />
| length2 = 4:57<br />
| title3 = [[Concierto de Aranjuez|Guitar Concerto]]<br />
| note3 = [[Joaquín Rodrigo]]<br />
| length3 = 2:52<br />
| title4 = Northern Lights<br />
| length4 = 2:18<br />
| title5 = Capriccio in A Minor<br />
| note5 = [[Niccolò Paganini]]<br />
| length5 = 1:09<br />
| title6 = Back to the Ice Age<br />
| length6 = 4:03<br />
| title7 = [[Swan Lake|Death of a Swan]]<br />
| note7 = [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]<br />
| length7 = 3:54<br />
| title8 = Soldiers Prayer<br />
| length8 = 4:04<br />
| title9 = Flying Samir<br />
| length9 = 3:02<br />
| title10 = Sunwinds<br />
| length10 = 2:40<br />
| title11 = [[Greensleeves]]<br />
| note11 = [[folk music|traditional]]<br />
| length11 = 1:52<br />
| total_length = 36:33<br />
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{{Track listing<br />
| headline = South American edition bonus track<br />
| title12 = Solitude<br />
| note12 = performed by Stratovarius<br />
| noted12 = Tolkki<br />
| length12 = 4:47<br />
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==Personnel==<br />
*[[Timo Tolkki]] – [[singing|vocals]], [[guitar]], [[guitar synthesizer]], [[bassline|bass]], [[audio engineer|engineering]], [[record producer|production]]<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/classical-variations-themes-mw0000740831/credits "Classical Variations & Themes - Timo Tolkki | Credits"]. ''[[AllMusic]]''. [[All Media Network]]. Retrieved 2014-12-04.</ref><br />
*Antti Ikonen – [[keyboard instrument|keyboard]]<br />
*[[Tuomo Lassila]] – [[drum kit|drums]]<br />
*Mikko Karmila – [[mixing engineer|mixing]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Timo Tolkki albums]]<br />
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