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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 Nov 20181h 1min

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 Nov 201851min

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 Nov 20181h 5min

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 Okt 20181h 19min

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 Okt 20181h 8min

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 Okt 20181h 9min

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 Sep 20181h 5min

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 Sep 201858min