Composer of the Week Podcast Podcast
BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday. It is only available in the UK.
UK Only
Episodes to download
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Faure
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Donald Macleod follows the dramatic thread running through Gabriel Faure's musical output
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Schubert
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Donald Macleod explores the remarkable and prolific final year of Schubert's life.
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Meredith Monk
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Donald Macleod talks to Meredith Monk about her remarkable life and unique music
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Michael Haydn
Thu 27 Oct 2016
Michael Haydn. He was a composer admired and respected by Mozart and revered by Schubert
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Anna Meredith
Fri 7 Oct 2016
Donald Macleod talks to acoustic and electronic music composer Anna Meredith.
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Oliver Knussen
Mon 3 Oct 2016
Donald Macleod invites composer Oliver Knussen to join him to discuss his life and career
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Rubbra
Thu 22 Sep 2016
Donald is joined by Edmund Rubbra's sons Benedict and Adrian, who discuss their father.
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Janacek
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Donald looks at Janacek's life through his instrumental and small-scale compositions.
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Villa Lobos
Thu 11 Aug 2016
Donald explores the music and life of Villa-Lobos with musicologist Manoel Correa do Lago
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Butterworth
Tue 2 Aug 2016
Donald Macleod explores the music of George Butterworth and four of his contemporaries
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Brahms
Fri 22 Jul 2016
Looking at the life and work of Johannes Brahms and some of his larger orchestral works
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Bernard Stevens
Fri 8 Jul 2016
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of neglected British composer Bernard Stevens
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Stravinsky and the Symphony
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Donald Macleod explores Igor Stravinsky's life through his symphonies.
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Johann Strauss I and II
Fri 17 Jun 2016
Donald Macleod explores the lives of and music of Johann Strauss I and his son, Johann
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Gershwin
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Donald explores the colourful life and music of George Gershwin, a pianist and composer.
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Clara Schumann and Her Circle
Fri 27 May 2016
Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in
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Purcell
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Henry Purcell, a musical revolutionary remembered as Britain's 'musical Shakespeare'
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Sterndale Bennett
Fri 15 Apr 2016
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of William Sterndale Bennett.
