Vivaldi

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from his first steps up the musical ladder, to his premature death at the age of 37 and the legacy left behind. At the turn of th...

4 Nov 20221h 7min

Donald Macleod delves into the life and works of Robert Schumann during the 1840s. The 1840s was the decade when Robert and Clara Schumann’s married life began, and was the decade in which he establis...

21 Okt 20221h 1min

Donald Macleod journeys into the varied musical landscape of Adolphus Hailstork, in conversation with the composer himself.American composer Adolphus Hailstork has written in many genres ranging from ...

7 Okt 20221h 2min

Donald Macleod explores Carl Maria von Weber’s city lives and those dramas and scandals survived throughout. Weber’s relationship with European cities mirrored his life and work, from the restless wan...

30 Sep 202258min

This week Donald Macleod lifts the lid on the life and music of Anton Bruckner, focusing upon different themes to better understand both the man and the music.Anton Bruckner was one of the great symph...

16 Sep 20221h 7min

Donald Macleod explores the work of Franz Schubert, focusing on five distinct phases in the composer’s life. And afterlife.We start in 1815, the year in which Schubert turned 18 and was a reluctant sc...

9 Sep 202252min

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of legendary organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude. Buxtehude was a musical star in his own time, whom Johann Sebastian Bach walked almost 300 miles just ...

2 Sep 20221h 8min

Donald explores composer Claudio Monteverdi, one of the most important figures in the development of Western music. As a composer of both secular and sacred music, over the course of his career he wor...

5 Aug 20221h 10min