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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Brahms
Fri 21 Dec 2012
Donald Macleod presents an exploration of the life and vocal music of Johannes Brahms.
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Marais and Delalande
Fri 14 Dec 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Marin Marais and Michel-Richard to Lully...
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Napoleon's Music
Fri 7 Dec 2012
As part of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3's Napoleon season, marking 200 years since his historic retreat...
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Glazunov
Fri 30 Nov 2012
Donald Macleod explore the life and work of Russian composer Aleksandr Glazunov, who...
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Telemann
Fri 23 Nov 2012
Donald Macleod reviews the life and work of Telemann, most prolific composer of the in...
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Big Band
Fri 16 Nov 2012
Donald Macleod is joined by jazz trumpeter, composer and conductor Guy Barker to the...
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Koechlin
Fri 2 Nov 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Charles Koechlin, an out-of-favour, as...
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Rachmaninov and Medtner
Fri 26 Oct 2012
For the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s piano season, Donald Macleod explores the intersections between the of...
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Granados and Albeniz
Fri 19 Oct 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composers Enrique Granados and...
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Debussy
Fri 12 Oct 2012
Donald Macleod focuses on French composer and pianist Claude Debussy, examining his...
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Liszt and his world
Fri 5 Oct 2012
Donald Macleod explores Liszt's extraordinary contribution to the piano repertoire, of...
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Field and Chopin
Fri 28 Sep 2012
Donald Macleod is joined by pianist Miceal O'Rourke to explore the work of Romantic of...
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Muzio Clementi
Fri 21 Sep 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of the Italian-born composer Muzio Clementi,...
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Coleridge-Taylor
Fri 14 Sep 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Anglo-African composer Samuel an figure...
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Adams
Fri 7 Sep 2012
Donald Macleod talks to America's most frequently performed living composer, John his...
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English Pastoralists
Fri 17 Aug 2012
Donald Macleod explores the lives and works of the English Pastoralist composers.
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Berlioz
Fri 10 Aug 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of the great musical innovator Hector Berlioz
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Beethoven
Fri 27 Jul 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Beethoven, taking a snapshot view the of...
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Handel
Fri 20 Jul 2012
Donald Macleod explores the music of Handel through five key 'years in the life' of...
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Paganini
Fri 6 Jul 2012
Donald Macleod unmasks the real Paganini, with the help of biographer Andrew McGee
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Mozart
Fri 29 Jun 2012
Donald Macleod explores Mozart's work as a musician away from home, from his earliest...
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Poulenc
Fri 15 Jun 2012
Donald Macleod explores Francis Poulenc's unique musical voice - and sometimes - a of...
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Haydn
Fri 8 Jun 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Joseph Haydn through a genre of music he...
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Irving Berlin
Fri 1 Jun 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Irving Berlin, a composer whose career to...
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Grieg
Fri 25 May 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of multi-talented Norwegian composer, and...
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Chapel Royal
Fri 18 May 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of five itinerant musicians of the British...
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Strauss Portraits
Fri 11 May 2012
Donald Macleod and guest Professor Julian Johnson from Royal Holloway, University of...
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Skalkottas
Fri 27 Apr 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas, who died...