Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven
Donald Macleod meets professional musicians to get the performer’s eye view of Beethoven.During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being made to musical instruments such as the keyboard a...
28 Aug 20201h 34min
Beethoven Unleashed: Creating the Myth
Donald Macleod follows Beethoven through the years 1810-1812. This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life through 1810-1812, a period of great financial hardship for all of Vienna i...
24 Aug 20201h 18min
Beethoven Unleashed: In His Own Words
Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven's varied and rich correspondence.More than 1,770 of Beethoven's letters still survive and, this week, Donald Macleod delves into five different areas of th...
31 Jul 20201h 58min
Johann Sebastian Bach
Donald Macleod journeys through Johann Sebastian Bach’s relationship with the organ.Johann Sebastian Bach is often acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time and yet, during his lifetim...
24 Jul 202054min
Beethoven Unleashed: Restless Spirit
Donald Macleod follows Ludwig van Beethoven through the years 1807-1809.This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life through the years of 1807-1809. This was a period which ended wit...
17 Jul 20201h 18min
Holmes and Duparc
Donald Macleod and Anastasia Belina explore the lives and music of Augusta Holmès and Henri Duparc.Imagine creating a grand spectacle that demands 1,200 performers, along with the most lavish sets and...
10 Jul 20201h 20min
Beethoven Unleashed: Private Papers
Donald Macleod explores Beethoven’s sketches and letters to see what they reveal about his life and music.This week Donald Macleod is joined by Beethoven scholar, Erica Buurman and biographer, Jan Swa...
3 Jul 20201h 31min
Beethoven Unleashed: Hero
Donald Macleod explores the triumphs, friends and foes of Beethoven’s ‘heroic’ phase.This week, Donald Macleod follows Ludwig van Beethoven through the years of 1804-1806; the beginning of what many c...
19 Jun 20201h 22min
