Gioachino Rossini
Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and music of Gioachino Rossini.Donald starts by unpacking the winning formula Rossini hit on right at the start of his operatic career. Aged 18, Rossini ...
16 Marras 20181h 1min
François Couperin
Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of François Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents.Donald begins by leading us through a gallery of the musical portraits that Couperin ...
9 Marras 201851min
Anton Bruckner
Donald Macleod explores five personality traits of the strange genius Anton Bruckner.Donald starts with Bruckner’s obsessive tendencies – from bar-counting to full-blown ‘numeromania’ which landed him...
2 Marras 20181h 5min
Dora Pejačević
Donald Macleod introduces a first in Composer of the Week’s seventy-year history, the Croatian Countess Dora Pejačević. Donald is joined by Professor Koraljka Kos and Professor Iskra Iveljic to discus...
26 Loka 20181h 19min
Hubert Parry
Marking the centenary of his death, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Hubert Parry.Donald begins with the story of Parry's early years, rooted at Highnam Court in Gloucestershire, before lo...
12 Loka 20181h 8min
Thea Musgrave
Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as she celebrates her 90th birthday.Donald and Thea begin by discussing her dream of becoming a composer, and the dreams that have inspired her wor...
5 Loka 20181h 9min
Sergei Rachmaninov
Donald Macleod explores Sergei Rachmaninov’s years in America.Reluctant even to visit at first, and once there always more than a little homesick, this proudly Russian composer in fact lived in the Un...
28 Syys 20181h 5min
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Donald Macleod explores the conflicted relationships and mysteries in the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.Donald begins this week’s episode by looking at Tchaikovsky’s early years as a civil servant,...
14 Syys 201858min
