Gioachino Rossini
Composer of the Week16 Nov 2018

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 was thrown in at the deep end, learning on the job at Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, and the structural groundplan he concocted for his early farces continued to come in handy later in life. Rossini is best known as a composer of comic operas, but Donald introduces us to his serious side, looking at three of his opere serie: Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra, Zelmira and Ermione. Next, a look at Rossini’s life through the enthusiastic but distorting lens of the writer Stendahl, the composer’s earliest biographer and an eyewitness of his most productive period. Donald then delves into the large collection of music that Rossini didn’t have to write – his forays into other genres and forms that came out of his spare time and retirement. Finally, we journey to Paris, to explore the composer’s on-off relationship with the city where he wrote so many of his most celebrated works.

Presenter: Donald Macleod Producer: Chris Barstow for BBC Wales

For full tracklistings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Gioachino Rossini: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013x1

And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Avsnitt(655)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Donald Macleod explores the key influences and music of Edvard Greig.Donald Macleod looks at the people and places that had a significant impact on Edvard Grieg’s life and work, meeting Norwegian fidd...

19 Apr 20241h 6min

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Johannes Brahms, the bearded and magisterial Romantic composer, could certainly do grandeur when required. But really, he was more interested in what music meant in ordinary life - how it can whisper,...

12 Apr 20241h 9min

Mozart's Grand Tour

Mozart's Grand Tour

Donald Macleod follows Mozart and his family on an ambitious European adventure.When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to trav...

5 Apr 20241h 5min

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Charles Villiers Stanford. With Jeremy DibbleMarking the centenary of his death, Composer of the Week explores the remarkable life and music of Sir Charle...

29 Mars 20241h 25min

Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of uncle and nephew Andrea and Giovanni GabrieliAndrea and Giovanni Gabrieli share a name that dominated Venetian music during the late 16th and early 17th ...

22 Mars 20241h 6min

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Ennio MorriconeEnnio Morricone is cited as one of the most experimental and influential composers of all time, undoubtedly recognised as one of the world’...

15 Mars 20241h 23min

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961)

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961)

Kate Molleson & Nastasha Loges explore the life and music of Johanna Senfter.If you know the name Johanna Senfter, it is probably in connection with her teacher, the composer, Max Reger. Senfter won t...

8 Mars 20241h 15min

Maddalena Sirmen and her World

Maddalena Sirmen and her World

Donald Macleod delves into the world of Venetian composer, Maddalena SirmenMaddalena Sirmen was born in Venice in 1745 and christened Maddalena Laura Lombardini. Her poverty-stricken family were unabl...

23 Feb 20241h

Populärt inom Nöje

mellan-himmel-och-jord-med-jlc
filip-fredrik-svarar
mardromsgasten
fordomspodden
badfluence
nemo-moter-en-van
dialogiskt
rss-p3-musikdokumentar
schulman-show
chilla-med-de-vet-du
fem-i-topp
mannen-utan-spar
gott-snack-med-fredrik-soderholm
hemma-hos-strage
podme-bio-4
karatefylla
skandal
hundaren-motgangspodden-av-tomas-andersson-wij
sexet
jag-ar-kinky