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Donald Macleod is joined by William Lyons to explore Guillaume Dufay's life and music.The beauty, originality and technical mastery of Guillaume Dufay’s music illustrate why the Florentine ruler Piero...

30 Elo 20191h 18min

Donald Macleod explores Edward Elgar’s music through the locations that inspired him.Worcester-born, with his roots in the beautiful English countryside around Hereford and the Malverns yet drawn to t...

2 Elo 201957min

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Antonio Vivaldi.As a virtuoso violinist, as a teacher, as a priest and as a prolific composer, Antonio Vivaldi was a key figure in Baroque Italy and remai...

26 Heinä 20191h 13min

Donald Macleod talks to composer James MacMillan as he celebrates his 60th birthdayOne of the UK’s most prolific living composers, James MacMillan was born on the 16th of July 1959 in Ayrshire. His gr...

19 Heinä 20191h 12min

Donald Macleod explores Carl Nielsen’s worldview through his music. You’ll find a clue as to Carl Nielsen’s character in any number of photographs that show him smiling; they include snaps of him take...

12 Heinä 20191h 5min

Donald Macleod tells the story of the loss - and later rediscovery - of CPE Bach’s musicCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was many things in his lifetime: composer, virtuoso harpsichord player and improviser ...

5 Heinä 20191h 4min

Donald Macleod explores “the poet of the piano”, Fryderyk Chopin. Donald starts this week’s episode with a look at how Chopin’s Polish heritage shaped his music. Although he left the country at the ag...

28 Kesä 20191h 3min

Donald Macleod on Jacques Offenbach - maestro of the Cancan and much more besides. Today’s episode we meet Offenbach on the brink of defeat – when he decides to launch his own theatre company, ‘Les Bo...

21 Kesä 20191h 6min