Composer of the Week Podcast
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.
UK Only
Episodes to download
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Chopin
Fri 10 Apr 2015
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Chopin, zooming in on five key places on...
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Judith Weir
Fri 3 Apr 2015
Donald Macleod is joined by composer Judith Weir to discuss her life and work.
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Five Under 35
Fri 13 Mar 2015
Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about a...
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Jacquet de la Guerre
Fri 6 Mar 2015
Hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music,...
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Purcell
Fri 13 Feb 2015
Henry Purcell's stageworks: William and Mary's accession heralds a change in direction...
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Schubert
Fri 6 Feb 2015
Donald Macleod explores music written in a critical time in Schubert's life, following...
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Bartok
Fri 30 Jan 2015
Donald Macleod explores the life and career of composer Bela Bartok (1881-1945), one...
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Haydn
Fri 23 Jan 2015
Exploring Haydn's time at the Hungarian palace of Eszterhaza, the composer's primary a...
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Lassus
Fri 16 Jan 2015
Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Orlande de Lassus, a cosmopolitan who so...
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Liszt
Fri 9 Jan 2015
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Liszt with a rare opportunity to 13...
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Chabrier
Fri 2 Jan 2015
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Emmanuel Chabrier, a composer whose is...
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Vivaldi
Boxing Day 2014
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Antonio Vivaldi, a Venetian priest, in...
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Previn
Fri 19 Dec 2014
In conversation with Donald Macleod, celebrated conductor, composer, jazz performer...
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Schumann
Fri 12 Dec 2014
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Robert Schumann, focusing on the that...
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Lord Berners
Fri 5 Dec 2014
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the colourful and eccentric British Lord...
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Mozart
Fri 14 Nov 2014
Donald Macleod explores five key years of Mozart's life and presents five of his works...
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Stradella
Fri 7 Nov 2014
Donald Macleod on the music of Alessandro Stradella. Highly respected and successful,...
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Khachaturian
Fri 31 Oct 2014
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Aram Khachaturian, a composer whose led...
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Debussy
Fri 17 Oct 2014
Donald Macleod explores a less celebrated, but important, area of Debussy's output -...
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Brahms Experience- Johannes Brahms
Fri 10 Oct 2014
Exploring the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, who would become...
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Dyson
Fri 3 Oct 2014
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of George Dyson, celebrated composer, and...
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Panufnik
Fri 26 Sep 2014
Donald Macleod celebrates the life and music of Warsaw-born composer Andrzej Panufnik
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Donizetti
Fri 19 Sep 2014
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Gaetano Donizetti, who composed almost 70...
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Rameau
Fri 12 Sep 2014
Donald Macleod is joined by Professor Graham Sadler to celebrate the work of one of in...
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Dvorak
Fri 5 Sep 2014
Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's relationship with the British Isles, which he visited...
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Stravinsky
Fri 8 Aug 2014
Donald Macleod explores Igor Stravinsky's life and work up to the end of World War I,...