Composer of the Week Podcast
蜜芽传媒 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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Beethoven
Fri 27 Dec 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven, focusing on how he...
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70th Anniversary Special - Louise Farrenc
Fri 20 Dec 2013
Donald Macleod marks Composer of the Week's 70th birthday by featuring a composer by 3...
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Iceland
Fri 13 Dec 2013
Donald Macleod explores the landscapes and vistas of Iceland, to discover its unique...
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Pietro Mascagni
Fri 6 Dec 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Mascagni, who triumphed in his early with...
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Saint-Saens
Fri 29 Nov 2013
Donald Macleod explores the charming and eccentric variety of later works by Camille...
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Britten 100
Fri 22 Nov 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Benjamin Benjamin Britten for the 100th...
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Bill Evans
Fri 15 Nov 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Bill Evans, the 'poet of the piano' and...
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Ethel Smyth
Fri 8 Nov 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of composer, author and women's rights Ethel...
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Fri 1 Nov 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Haydn through another musical form apart...
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Lully
Fri 25 Oct 2013
Donald Macleod explores the work of Lully, the pre-eminent composer of the French in a...
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Chaminade and Holmes
Fri 18 Oct 2013
Donald Macleod, with the help of experts Marcia Citron of Rice University and Karen of...
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Verdi 200
Fri 11 Oct 2013
Donald Macleod explores Verdi's later life and music when, after years of honing his...
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British Film Music
Fri 27 Sep 2013
Donald Macleod is joined by writer and film music expert John Huckvale to explore film...
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Golden Age of Hollywood
Fri 20 Sep 2013
"Sound of Cinema" continues as Donald Macleod explores the soundtrack of The Golden of...
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Gluck
Fri 13 Sep 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Christoph Willibald Gluck, seen as opera...
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Sibelius
Fri 23 Aug 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, from his...
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200 Years of the Royal Philharmonic Society
Fri 9 Aug 2013
Donald Macleod recalls the story of the Royal Philharmonic Society - and the roll-call...
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Robert Schumann
Fri 2 Aug 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Robert Schumann, who drew his as much of...
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Tchaikovsky
Fri 26 Jul 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and works of Russia's most popular Romatic composer.
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George Lloyd
Fri 28 Jun 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of George Lloyd, the English Romantic who of...
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Elgar
Fri 21 Jun 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of the 'quintessentially English' Edward a...
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Vaughan Williams
Fri 7 Jun 2013
Donald Macleod reflects on Vaughan Williams's highly productive later years
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Faure
Fri 31 May 2013
Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure. He's joined by the Jessica...
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Wagner and His World
Fri 24 May 2013
Donald Macleod explores the connections and relationships that helped establish Wagner...
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Hummel
Fri 17 May 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Hummel, regarded by Chopin as one of the...
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Copland
Fri 10 May 2013
Donald Macleod explores Copland's life and work through the places he lived, visited,...
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Meyerbeer
Fri 3 May 2013
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Giacomo Meyerbeer in conversation with of...
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Gordon Jacob and Joseph Horovitz
Fri 19 Apr 2013
Donald Macleod is joined by composer Joseph Horovitz, who not only talks about his own...
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