Beethoven Unleashed: Freedom and Joy
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, joins Donald Mcleod to discuss Beethoven’s symphoniesThey have been described as “the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man”, “an expressio...
20 Nov 20201h 23min
James Price Johnson
James P. Johnson is known as the Father of Stride Piano, and composed the most iconic work that captures the essence of the Roaring Twenties, the Charleston. Both pianist and composer, he not only wro...
13 Nov 20201h
Beethoven Unleashed: Titan
This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life through the years of 1822-1824 – a period during which the composer completed his greatest late masterpieces. It was also a time at which...
6 Nov 20201h 24min
Desmarets and Boismortier
Donald Macleod steps into the French baroque with Desmarets and BoismortierDonald Macleod discovers the stories of two very colourful figures of the French baroque, Henri Desmarets and Joseph Bodin de...
30 Okt 202059min
Beethoven Unleashed: Piano Sonatas
This week, the world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt chooses five contrasting aspects of the piano sonatas to discuss with Donald Macleod. In 2020, Hewitt reaches the end of her survey of Beethoven’s p...
23 Okt 20201h 27min
Kaija Saariaho (b 1952)
“Music is a study of my own self and of the human spirit”, so says the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Her passion for music is all consuming, with the inspiration to compose reflecting the breadth o...
16 Okt 20201h 22min
Beethoven Unleashed: Withdrawal
This week, Donald Macleod follows Ludwig van Beethoven through the years of 1816-1821; a period when the composer was groping towards yet another extraordinary and revolutionary flowering of his creat...
9 Okt 20201h 27min
Beethoven Unleashed: Spirit of the Age
Donald Macleod is joined by five guests to explore Beethoven’s wider world. Beethoven’s lifetime was one of tumultuous change. In a week of programmes exploring this wider world around Beethoven, Dona...
25 Sep 20201h 37min
