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| Aaron Copland (1900-1990) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Copland's life and music through the prism of five key relationships.... |
| Afternoon On 3 | ...Introduced by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Alban Berg (1885-1935) | ...Berg's richly expressive music left a hidden legacy. Concealed among the notes of his pieces were revelations about his private life, waiting to be discovered. DONALD MACLEOD picks up the trail during the composer's troublesome teens.... |
| Albert Roussel (1869-1937) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Albert Roussel, looking at his first major success, which vividly evokes the sights and sounds of India, where he spent his honeymoon.... |
| Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983) | ...It's the 90th anniversary of the birth of composer Ginastera. DONALD MACLEOD is joined by American pianist Barbara Nissman, an acclaimed exponent of Ginastera's music, to celebrate his legacy.... |
| Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) And Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) | ...DONALD MACLEOD examines the very different musical worlds of the Scarlattis, father Alessandro and son Domenico.... |
| Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1871-1915) | ...DONALD MACLEOD follows the young Scriabin from a cossetted upbringing by '2 grandmothers and an aunt', via the Cadet Corps, to studenthood at the Moscow Conservatoire, where overpractising damaged his right hand. After graduating, he became a protegee of the great patron of Russian music, Mitrofan Beliaev.... |
| Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) | ...After a promising start, Alexander Zemlinsky's life turned into an uphill struggle. Despite being respected by colleagues such as Schoenberg and Berg, like many other artists, Zemlinsky's career was overshadowed by the cataclysmic events in Europe in the 1930s, and he died in exile largely forgotten. But in the years since his death, his reputation as a composer, teacher and conductor has slowly been restored. DONALD MACLEOD begins his survey with Zemlinsky's formative experiences in Vienna.... |
| Andrea And Giovanni Gabrieli (1532 - 3-1585; 1555-1612) | ...For the whole of the second half of the 16th Century, the name of Gabrieli dominated the musical life of Venice. Andrea and nephew Giovanni Gabrieli presided over public music-making at a time when the city was beginning to emerge as one of the most important centres of musical life in Europe. DONALD MACLEOD focuses on the madrigals produced by Andrea, written primarily for the countless feast days held in the city every year.... |
| Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) | ...Panufnik's promising early career in Warsaw was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, and he became more concerned with survival than composition. With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Bruckner's time in Vienna, during which the composer produced his greatest and most enduring works. However, although his symphonies exude power, confidence and surety of purpose, Bruckner himself was neurotic, obsessive and wracked by self-doubt.... |
| Anton Webern (1883-1945) | ...DONALD MACLEOD investigates how Webern's encounter with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg led to a continuing relationship that imposed on huge areas of his life and music, and not always in a positive way.... |
| Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) | ...Presented by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of the much-maligned Antonio Salieri, mainly remembered today for supposedly poisoning Mozart through jealousy of the younger composer's talent. Is it right that this once highly-celebrated composer and teacher should be remembered for an unsubstantiated rumour?... |
| Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Vivaldi's large and little-heard musical catalogue, revealing an energetic and diverse composer.... |
| Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1841) | ...DONALD MACLEOD examines the many mantles this multifaceted composer assumed during his lifetime.... |
| Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and music of the Italian violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli. He reveals how Corelli's immense reputation rests on a relatively small collection of six publications, with just a handful of accounts about his brilliant playing.... |
| Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) | ...DONALD MACLEOD assesses Schoenberg's position as an outsider in turn-of-the-century Vienna, with the battle lines between the composer and the critics drawn almost from the beginning.... |
| Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Astor Piazzolla, tracing his early steps. He was born into the world of the tango in Argentina but, at the age of only two, his Italian immigrant parents moved him to the hustle and bustle of New York. It was there that he encountered the bandoneon and classical music - two formative experiences which set the young Astor on his own musical path.... |
| Bach - The Final Years | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the great sequence of summatory masterpieces from the last decade of Bach's life.... |
| Bach Christmas, A | ...DONALD MACLEOD and John Eliot Gardiner... |
| Bach In Weimar | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Bach's ten years in Weimar, where he became court organist and concertmaster. He looks at Bach's arrival there, and how he coped with the 'lowly' position alongside 12 other joint servants.... |
| Bach's Sons - And A Cousin | ...'Friedemann's gifts remain evident in an outpouring of rich melody, a harmonic palette more varied and more daring than that of most of his contemporaries...' That was how Eugene Helm described the work of Wilhelm. DONALD MACLEOD investigates.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 Live | ...Presented by DONALD MACLEOD from the Royal Albert Hall.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 | ...Presented by DONALD MACLEOD live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...Presented by DONALD MACLEOD, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Presented by DONALD MACLEOD, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Béla Bartók (1881-1945) | ...The Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartok was born into a time of intense political turmoil in his homeland. During his formative years, Bartok was caught up in a surge of nationalism that gripped Hungary and informed many of his early compositions. But, as DONALD MACLEOD discovers, it wasn't long before another, stronger influence was to transform his life and work.... |
| Béla Bartók (1881-1945)1/5 | ...The Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartok was born into a time of intense political turmoil in his homeland. During his formative years, Bartok was caught up in a surge of nationalism that gripped Hungary and informed many of his early compositions. But, as DONALD MACLEOD discovers, it wasn't long before another, stronger influence was to transform his life and work.... |
| Bela Bartok (1881-1945) | ...Bartok was born into a time of intense political turmoil in Hungary. During his formative years, he was caught up in a surge of nationalism that gripped his homeland and informed many of his early compositions. But, as DONALD MACLEOD discovers, it wasn't long before another, stronger influence was to transform his life and work.... |
| Belyayev Circle, The | ...DONALD MACLEOD introduces Mitrofan Belyayev, the extremely wealthy timber merchant who became one of the most influential forces in Russian music. We look at some of the key figures who gathered round him in late 19th-century St Petersburg.... |
| Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) | ...To mark the 30th anniversary of Britten's death, DONALD MACLEOD is joined by Philip Reed to discuss Britten's precocious early career, including the remarkable music produced in his first job for the Film Unit of the General Post Office.... |
| Benjamin Frankel (1906-1973) | ...One of the unsung heroes of the British film industry, Frankel wrote over 100 film scores in his lifetime and a considerable amount of concert music, much of which is rarely heard today. On the 100th anniversary of Frankel's birth, DONALD MACLEOD attempts to set the record straight.... |
| Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Bernard Herrmann, best remembered for producing groundbreaking scores for film directors, ranging from Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese. In his own eyes, though, Herrmann saw himself simply as a 'composer', rather than a film composer and his catalogue supports that claim, as it includes a full length opera, chamber and symphonic music. A brilliant and complex character, his formative years in New York helped establish a unique approach to music.... |
| Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) | ...Born in the watchtower overlooking the small town Policka on the Bohemian-Moravian border, Bohuslav Martinu readily acknowledged that his unusual birthplace formed a significant influence on his music. Presented by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Camille Saint-saëns (1835-1921) | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at Saint-Saëns's relationships with and attitudes towards women, including his adored mother and great-aunt, the twin pillars of support during his childhood, his lasting friendships, and his shortlived marriage.... |
| Carl Maria Von Weber (1786 - 1826) | ...Bad luck seemed to dog Carl Maria von Weber's professional life; there was always a rival faction, a temperamental diva or political intrigue to complicate matters. DONALD MACLEOD finds Weber working for the aristocratic and eccentric Württemberg family, with whom Weber's own sense of mischief landed him in hot water.... |
| Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Weber's instrumental works, discovering a composer with considerable energy and musical curiosity.... |
| Carl Orff (1895-1982) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by Professor Michael Kater to explore the life and music of Carl Orff.... |
| Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) And Augusta Holmes (1847-1903) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the early influences and contrasting experiences of Chaminade and Holmes in their family background and training. With contributions from Marcia Citron, Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of Musicology at Rice University, and Karen Henson, Assistant Professor at Columbia University.... |
| Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) | ...After Purcell died in 1695, music in this country was dominated by two Germans, first Handel and then Mendelssohn. DONALD MACLEOD looks at the life and music of the man who it was felt began a renaissance of English music at the end of the 19th century, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry.... |
| Charles Ives (1874-1954) | ...DONALD MACLEOD ventures into the weird and wonderful world of Charles Ives, widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the last century - an achievement accomplished in his spare time from a day job as one of America's most successful life insurers.... |
| Charles Mingus (1922-1979) | ...DONALD MACLEOD and Brian Priestley explore the works Mingus wrote as the 1960s began, including several jazz portraits which pay tribute to those who influenced him, such as Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, as well as pieces reacting to the American civil rights struggle.... |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) | ...In the course of his lengthy career, Gluck wrote over 50 operas, but only a handful are ever performed today. Yet he is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern opera. DONALD MACLEOD looks at the life and music of the man who fundamentally reformed the nature of opera.... |
| Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) | ...Debussy lived through a period of immense change - socially, economically and politically - in France. DONALD MACLEOD considers how the events Debussy witnessed firsthand - which include the Commune, the birth of the Second Empire and the First World War - helped shape his musical expression.... |
| Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Composer Of The Week In Venice | ...DONALD MACLEOD takes a musical journey around Venice, visiting some of the historic institutions still thriving today.... |
| Composer Of The Week | ...Composer of the Week is one of Radio 3's longest running programmes, now presented by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Composers - Bach's Sons - And A Cousin | ...'Friedemann's gifts remain evident in an outpouring of rich melody, a harmonic palette more varied and more daring than that of most of his contemporaries - and above all a highly personal style of musical expression,' according to Eugene Helm. DONALD MACLEOD investigates.... |
| Composers Of The Week - Alessandro And Domenico Scarlatti | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Alessandro's contribution to the birth of opera in Rome, including his opera `Gli equivoci' and a cantata, plus a sonata and the Stabat mater from Domenico D Scarlatti: Stabat mater. ENGLISH Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner.... |
| Court Of Elizabeth I | ...With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Court Of James I/vi | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the music and musicians of James' time through five key moments in his reign.... |
| Court Of King James I - Vi | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the music and musicians of James' time through five key moments in his reign.... |
| Dietrich Buxtehude (1636-1707) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by period performer and scholar Ton Koopman, who has decided to dedicate the next five years of his life to recording every note of Buxtehude's music. They examine the composer's wide-ranging duties during his time in Lubeck, which included not only playing the organ but also repairing it, and even keeping the town's birth and death records.... |
| Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the music heard at the first of two poignant memorial concerts held in London following Grieg's death a century ago, and looks at how Britain reflected on the loss of one of its most loved foreign composers.... |
| Edward Elgar (1857-1934) | ...Stephen Johnson joins DONALD MACLEOD to explore the landscapes of Herefordshire and Worcestershire that inspired much of the music of anniversary composer Edward Elgar.... |
| Edward Elgar | ...Stephen Johnson and DONALD MACLEOD explore the landscapes of Herefordshire and Worcestershire that inspired much of Elgar's music.... |
| Einojuhani Rautavaara (b.1928) | ...As Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara celebrates his 80th birthday this week, DONALD MACLEOD presents a survey of his life and music, with excerpts specially recorded for the programme by Rautavaara himself.... |
| Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-83) | ..."Elisabeth Lutyens is an outrageous 76-year-old..." began a London Evening Standard article about the composer's life in 1982. Hyperbole or fair comment? DONALD MACLEOD hunts for the truth about this extraordinary figure in a week of programmes celebrating her centenary, beginning with a look at the complex relationship with her parents which so defined her early career.... |
| Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) | ...To mark the centenary of her birth, DONALD MACLEOD begins a survey of the work of Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, described as 'one of the most substantial composers these islands have yet produced'.... |
| Eric Coates (1886-1957) | ...DONALD MACLEOD salutes a composer with a unique ability to match a national mood with music. For five decades Eric Coates's music seemed to pervade the national consciousness, stirring the war effort, celebrating the Dam Busters and defining some of the nation's best loved radio and television programmes.... |
| Erik Satie (1866-1925) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Erik Satie, concentrating on his early life - from his youth in the sleepy seaside town of Honfleur to the boozy dives of bohemian Montmartre, and that trio of Gymnopedies, written at the tender age of 20.... |
| Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) And Clara Schumann (1819-1896) | ...The limelight is shared by two composers, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Schumann. DONALD MACLEOD begins his survey with the pair's early training.... |
| Felix And Fanny Mendelssohn (1809-1847 And 1805-1847) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, two sibling prodigies whose lives took very different paths, but whose music had much in common.... |
| Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) | ...Felix Mendelssohn grew up in a wealthy, privileged environment. His musical prodigy was nurtured by his parents and a series of distinguished teachers, resulting in a prolific number of accomplished works by the age of 16. DONALD MACLEOD explores Mendelssohn's formative years, leading up to an unprecedented chamber masterpiece, the Octet in E flat.... |
| Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Cavalli's life and music, covering a broad range of his early music, from sacred to secular, whilst charting the composer's early years and evolving career in Venice.... |
| Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) | ...DONALD MACLEOD steps into the heady atmosphere of Paris in the early 20th Century - a melting pot of ideas which Poulenc embraced as a young man.... |
| Francois Couperin (1668-1773) | ...Francois Couperin belonged to an important dynasty of French musicians, spanning four generations from the late 16th century to the early 19th century. DONALD MACLEOD follows the progress of the Couperins from rural life in Chaume-en-Brie to establishment as professional musicians in bustling Paris.... |
| Frank Bridge (1879-1941) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by Paul Hindmarsh.... |
| Frank Martin (1890-1974) | ...Frank Martin was born in Geneva in September 1890, and died in Holland in 1974. He was very much a modern European and a resolutely individual composer, independent of the musical ideologies and schools of the past century. DONALD MACLEOD visits his home in Naarden, Holland, now a museum to his life and work, and meets his widow Maria Martin.... |
| Franz Liszt (1811-1886) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD. The first biography of Franz Liszt appeared when he was only 23, yet even in old age the superstar pianist-composer refused to write his own memoir. Nevertheless, more than 35,000 of his letters to musicians, royalty, friends and loved ones have survived, revealing the incredible story of his life in his own words.... |
| Franz Schubert (1797-1828) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson to explore the highly productive 'Indian summer' of Schubert's final years.... |
| Frederick Delius (1862-1934) | ...DONALD MACLEOD considers Delius's passion for Scandinavian landscape, culture and music, charting the composer's deep friendship with Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. He also looks at how a 16-year-old Peter Warlock came to play a significant role in Delius's career.... |
| Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) | ...Leading up to The Chopin Experience on Radio 3, DONALD MACLEOD introduces music and stories from the life of Fryderyk Chopin.... |
| Fryderyk Chopin | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Chopin's time at Nohant, the country retreat of his lover George Sand, where over seven long summers towards the end of his life he composed much of his finest music.... |
| Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) | ...By the time of his death in 1924, Gabriel Faure was venerated as the grand old man of French music. Yet today much of his output is neglected, and he is eclipsed by his better-known contemporaries Debussy and Ravel. DONALD MACLEOD explores Faure's songs and chamber music, discovering some forgotten gems along the way.... |
| Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) | ...By the time of his death in 1924, Gabriel Fauré was venerated as the grand old man of French music. Yet today much of his output is neglected, and he is eclipsed by his better-known contemporaries Debussy and Ravel. DONALD MACLEOD explores Fauré's songs and chamber music, discovering some forgotten gems along the way.... |
| Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Donizetti's life and work, focusing on his time working at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples as house composer. It was a crucial period in his career and during the 20-odd years he spent in the city, his fame spread from the heel of Italy to the Americas.... |
| Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Telemann's entrepreneurial flair, the springboard for a number of his most important publications.... |
| George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Handel In London - 5 Musical Walks | ...DONALD MACLEOD embarks on his first walk through Handel's London, featuring the composer's home of 36 years and its immediate environs. He begins with a guided tour of the Handel House Museum on Brook Street, then visits St George's Hanover Square, the church in which Handel worshipped, played the organ and rented a pew. The final stop is Carlisle Street in Soho and the 18th century offices of Private Eye magazine, where art director Tony Rushton talks about his passion for former resident JC Smith, Handel's friend and amanuensis.... |
| George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Handel's oratorios, focusing on his work in Rome as a young man.... |
| George Gershwin (1898-1937) | ...Gershwin started life in the music business as a song-plugger on Tin Pan Alley, becoming a fine pianist into the bargain. DONALD MACLEOD looks at the songs that established his reputation as a composer of popular songs and the work with which he crossed the threshold of the concert hall for the first time.... |
| George Lloyd (1913-1998) | ...DONALD MACLEOD charts the rollercoaster career of Cornish composer George Lloyd, a career his obituary in The Times saw as 'A remarkable cycle of recognition and neglect'.... |
| Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956) | ...DONALD MACLEOD marks the 50th anniversary of Finzi's death with a series of programmes exploring the composer's life and legacy.... |
| Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) | ...DONALD MACLEOD recreates the premieres of five different Puccini operas in five different cities.... |
| Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) | ...By the time he retired at the age of 37, Rossini had more than three dozen operas to his credit. DONALD MACLEOD turns his attention to the composer's forgotten operatic masterpieces, but starts the programme with a more familiar work.... |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by scholar and performer Christopher Stembridge to explore the life and work of Girolamo Frescobaldi.... |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by scholar and performer Christopher Stembridge to explore the life and work of Girolamo Frescobaldi.... |
| Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) | ...He had amassed a fortune, due in part to the fact that he was a shrewd businessman but also because of the efforts of Casa Ricordi, the publishing house which has so tirelessly promoted his music over the years. With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)1/5 | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success, beginning with Antonio Barezzi, a distiller and grocer who sponsored Verdi as a child. Later on, Barezzi's daughter Margherita, also a keen supporter of Verdi's ambitions, became the composer's first wife.... |
| Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)2/5 | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at Verdi's relationship with the opera singer Giuseppina Strepponi - one of his most loyal supporters. Despite the difficulties her tarnished reputation caused the couple, their relationship endured for half a century. Verdi relied on her steady emotional support, advice over singers and her ability to deal with all his professional matters - including tactfully negotiating disputes with colleagues and friends.... |
| Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success.... |
| Grace Williams (1906-1977) | ...DONALD MACLEOD visits South Wales to begin a week tracing the course of Grace Williams' life and music, talking to those who knew her, including Welsh musicologists Heward Rees and Rhiannon Mathias.... |
| Grace Williams (1906-1977)3/5 | ...DONALD MACLEOD visits South Wales to begin a week tracing the course of Grace Williams' life and music, talking to those who knew her, including Welsh musicologists Heward Rees and Rhiannon Mathias.... |
| Gustav Holst (1874-1934) And Imogen Holst (1907-1984) | ...To commemorate the centenary of Imogen Holst's birth, DONALD MACLEOD introduces a celebration of the lives and music of Imogen and her father Gustav.... |
| Gustav Holst (1874-1934) | ...DONALD MACLEOD investigates two very disparate influences on the music of Gustav Holst - the music of Henry Purcell and Hindu Mythology.... |
| Gustav Holst (1874-1934)4/5 | ...1/5. DONALD MACLEOD takes a look at the early life of Holst - his student days, the start of his teaching career and his interest in collecting folksongs, both in England and while on a rare holiday in Algeria.... |
| Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) | ...Gustav Mahler began early in life to carve out a career as a successful if controversial conductor. DONALD MACLEOD begins his exploration of Mahler's life with his only surviving piece of chamber music and two works inspired by a love affair.... |
| Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by composer, pianist and teacher George Benjamin, to explore Ligeti's life and music.... |
| Handel In London - 5 Musical Walks | ...1/5. DONALD MACLEOD embarks on his first walk through Handel's London, featuring the composer's home of 36 years and its immediate environs. Beginning at the Handel House Museum on Brook Street, Donald is given a guided tour by its director Sarah Bardwell. He then meets Lewis Foreman at nearby St George's in Hanover Square, the church in which Handel worshipped, played the organ and rented a pew. The final stop is Carlisle Street in Soho and the 18th-century offices of Private Eye magazine, where art director Tony Rushton talks about his passion for former resident J C Smith, Handel's friend and amanuensis.... |
| Hans Werner Henze (b 1926) | ...DONALD MACLEOD talks to Hans Werner Henze about his early life in Germany during the Nazi era, and his difficult journey towards becoming a composer.... |
| Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at some of the obsessions of a very obsessive character, Hector Berlioz, and discusses the composer's passion for music.... |
| Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) | ...DONALD MACLEOD examines the influence of Martin Luther on the life of his compatriot Schütz, born in Saxony 39 years after Luther died.... |
| Heinrich Schütz | ...Schütz made two visits to Venice - to train with Giovanni Gabrieli, and learn more about the music of Monteverdi and Grandi. DONALD MACLEOD finds out how these visits influenced Schütz's own music.... |
| Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) | ...Henrich Schutz made two visits to Venice, to train with Giovanni Gabrieli. DONALD MACLEOD finds out how these visits influenced Schutz's own music.... |
| Heitor Villa-lobos (1887-1959) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the cities that were important to Villa-Lobos, focusing on the impact on him of Rio de Janeiro - the place where the composer was born and died.... |
| Henry Purcell (1659-1695) | ...DONALD MACLEOD and Purcell expert Bruce Wood explore the events of Purcell's early years.... |
| Iain Burnside | ...Jeremy sits in for Iain Burnside with a musical tour of Venice, helped by DONALD MACLEOD ... |
| Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) | ...Although he lived in America for almost thirty years Igor Stravinsky referred to the loss of his homeland Russia and its language as the greatest crisis in his life as a composer. DONALD MACLEOD examines the impact of his exile from Russia and the music his birthland inspired.... |
| Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)5/5 | ...In 1934 Igor Stravinsky took up French citizenship. It was not a successful move on either a personal or professional level. DONALD MACLEOD explores the reasons why Stravinsky's move back to France proved to be so unsatisfactory.... |
| Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the final chapter of Stravinsky's life, looking at the impact his experience of America had on the man and his music.... |
| Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) | ...DONALD MACLEOD commemorates the 50th anniversary of Sibelius's death.... |
| Jean-philippe Rameau (1683-1764) | ...During his lifetime, Rameau was widely regarded as the greatest French composer of the age, yet within a few decades of his death, his music had fallen into neglect. It took a century for the Rameau revival to begin and almost as long again for him to be fully rehabilitated. DONALD MACLEOD considers the composer's first 50 years, which for the most part are shrouded in mystery.... |
| Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837) | ...DONALD MACLEOD examines the fluctuating reputation of Hummel, a composer who was once ranked alongside Beethoven.... |
| Johann Pachelbel | ...DONALD MACLEOD considers how history has treated Pachelbel.... |
| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - A Year In The Life | ...DONALD MACLEOD picks up the trail starting with Bach's audition for the job.... |
| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores five decades of Bach's music, revealing a picture of the composer's evolving style.... |
| Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | ...The young Brahms was clearly destined for greatness, but his early career was helped along by a series of significant friendships. DONALD MACLEOD traces his journey from jobbing pianist to rising star.... |
| Johannes Brahms (1833-97) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD. Brahms's celebrated love affair with Clara Schumann was just the first of a string of failed relationships with women. Macleod examines why he never succeeded in his search for true love.... |
| John Adams (b.1947) | ...DONALD MACLEOD talks to John Adams about his early years as a composer in 1970s California.... |
| John Ireland (1879-1962) | ...DONALD MACLEOD surveys the life and work of John Ireland, an undeservedly neglected minor master whose precocious early talent gained him entry to London's Royal College of Music at the age of 14. The programme includes early essays in all of the genres in which he would later excel.... |
| John Mccabe (1939- ) | ...DONALD MACLEOD meets British composer, pianist, writer and critic John McCabe, who performs in the studio and discusses his life at the age of 70.... |
| John Tavener (1944-) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and music of maverick composer John Tavener. His name is linked in many people's minds with the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, where his Song for Athene was heard by millions around the world. Over the years, he has been associated with figures as diverse as the Beatles, Steven Isserlis, Bjork and a Russian Orthodox nun.... |
| John Woolrich (b.1954) | ...John Woolrich talks to DONALD MACLEOD about what drew him towards composing, the way in which his works form a dialogue with the music of the past, and his love of the shadowy world of the viola.... |
| Jonathan Harvey (1939-) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is in the company of British composer Jonathan Harvey, a fastidious craftsman whose works are very much music of integration, often bringing together different worlds: cutting-edge electronics and traditional instruments, past and present, material and ethereal.... |
| Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) | ...For much of his working life, Haydn lived and breathed opera and some of his best music was written for the stage. But until recently, his operas have suffered from chronic under-exposure. DONALD MACLEOD blows a few layers of dust from these unfairly neglected works and introduces a complete performance of Haydn's very first comic opera, La canterina.... |
| Joseph Haydn | ...DONALD MACLEOD blows a few layers of dust from these unfairly neglected works and introduces a complete performance of Haydn's very first comic opera, La canterina.... |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963) | ...DONALD MACLEOD surveys Karl Amadeus Hartmann's life and music, to mark the centenary of his birth. He looks first at Hartmann's early influences in inter-war Munich, as Germany descended into crisis.... |
| Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) | ...As a young man, Karol Szymanowski looked set for a rosy future. In his early twenties, he fell in with a group of well-connected fellow Poles with a generous musical patron, who enabled them to publish their music and put on public concerts of their own works. DONALD MACLEOD introduces some of Szymanowski's earliest works, from a period when he looked towards Germany for musical inspiration.... |
| Leo? Janá?ek (1854-1928) | ...When Janacek had writer's block, he knew exactly how to recharge his inspiration - with the folksongs of his Moravian homeland. Biographer John Tyrrell joins DONALD MACLEOD to reveal the local ingredients in some of Janacek's most famous music.... |
| Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at how Bernstein was catapulted into the limelight after taking the baton at the last minute in place of the ailing Bruno Walter in a broadcast with the New York Philharmonic.... |
| Leonard Bernstein | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Bernstein's life and work - as an inexhaustible conductor, educator, performer and personality.... |
| Leos Janácek (1854-1928) | ...As Janacek wrestled with completing his opera Jenufa, he reached a watershed point in his career: he began to draw directly on his own experiences and bind his life to his music. DONALD MACLEOD and John Tyrrell explore Janacek's autobiographical works.... |
| Lord Berners (1883-1950) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores colourful life and music of English eccentric Lord Berners.... |
| Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD. Before he'd reached the age of 30, Louis Spohr's considerable talent was the talk of Europe. He'd left his hometown in provincial Germany and had secured a plum job in Vienna, then the centre of the musical universe. Once there he composed a wide range of fine works, struck out on a concert tour of Europe, and founded a great friendship with a chap by the name of Beethoven.... |
| Louis Spohr (1784-1859)5/5 | ...Spohr's last years were far from the restful, contented autumn that they might have been, as the politics of the town of Kassel, where he lived and worked, left a sour taste in his mouth. DONALD MACLEOD concludes his series by looking at some of the radiant works that emerged against the odds during Spohr's last years.... |
| Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) - The Pianist | ...In November 1792, Beethoven set out for Vienna from his native Bonn. It was his second visit, and this time the move was to be permanent. He quickly established himself as a prodigiously talented pianist and composer. DONALD MACLEOD looks at some of his earliest Viennese works involving the piano.... |
| Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the extraordinary musical landscape of Beethoven's last 12 years - known to posterity as his late period.... |
| Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life of Manuel de Falla, from his Andalusian beginnings, to his final days in Argentina.... |
| Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) | ...DONALD MACLEOD visits Le Belvédère, Ravel's aptly named house in the French town of Montfort l'Amaury, which has a spectacular view of the Rambouillet forest. That's the reason why he fell in love with this quirky little house, once described as being shaped like a wedge of Camembert cheese.... |
| Maurice Ravel | ...... |
| Michael Haydn (1737-1806) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the work of Joseph Haydn's younger brother, an important composer in his own right in spite of working in his sibling's considerable shadow.... |
| Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857) | ...Until his mid-thirties, Glinka was regarded as a musical dilettante, but this relatively untrained man went on to produce a four-act opera which was to change the course of Russian musical history. DONALD MACLEOD introduces some of Glinka's early songs and chamber music and the first of his orchestral works.... |
| Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995) And Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) | ...DONALD MACLEOD hears from Hollywood film music historian Jon Burlingame and conductor John Mauceri, who share some first hand reminiscences of both composers.... |
| Miles Davis (1926-1991) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the compositions of the most influential jazz musician of the 20th century.... |
| Minimalists, The | ...In the first programme DONALD MACLEOD looks at key works by those protagonists - La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, against the backdrop of 1960s America.... |
| Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) | ...DONALD MACLEOD investigates just how famous Moszkowski was.... |
| Music At Versailles | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the music that was performed at the Palace of Versailles before the French Revolution.... |
| Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD. When Clementi was 15, Sir Peter Beckford took an interest in the young composer's musical talent and struck a deal with his father in Rome to take the boy to London, which became his base for the rest of his long and busy life.... |
| Neapolitan Golden Age, The | ...DONALD MACLEOD journeys through a century of music-making in Naples which put even its great rival Venice's culture in the shade. The death in 1725 of the great Alessandro Scarlatti offers new opportunities to Neapolitan musicians.... |
| Nicolay Yakovlevich Myaskovksy (1881-1950) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Nicolay Myaskovsky, focusing on the composer's childhood. His father's army career impacted upon the young and reserved child, as did the extreme religious mania of his aunt, who lived with the family once Myaskovsky's mother died.... |
| Nikolai Roslavets (1881-1944) And Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950) | ...DONALD MACLEOD examines the music and lives of two Russian composers, both of whom fell foul of Stalin's regime, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Nikolai Roslavets.... |
| Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-korsakov (1844-1908) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Rimsky-Korsakov's early years. As a teenager, the composer was nicknamed 'beautiful child' by his colleagues in the loose collective of composers known as 'The Mighty Handful' and was seen by many of them as the brightest hope for the future of Russian music.... |
| Ockeghem And Obrecht | ...DONALD MACLEOD begins a week-long musical journey across Europe in the company of two greats from the Renaissance world.... |
| Olivier Messiaen | ...DONALD MACLEOD and biographer Nigel Simeone explore early influences on Messiaen.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Presented by DONALD MACLEOD with opera historian Sarah Lenton.... |
| Opera-comique | ...DONALD MACLEOD concludes his exploration of the colourful world of the Parisian Opera-Comique.... |
| Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ) | ...DONALD MACLEOD meets a composer anointed by American critics as 'the saviour of classical music', an artist whose diverse background - brought up in Argentina, of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, living in Jerusalem and studying in the United States - has given him a distinct musical voice.... |
| Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936) | ...DONALD MACLEOD begins his profile of one of Italy's most controversial composers with a portrait of Respighi's colourful and sometimes contradictory passions, including fine art, fairy tale, grand opera and antiquity.... |
| Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Hindemith's radical and very productive years in the 1920s, showing how by 1922 the young composer, brimming with confidence and excitement, was known across Germany as an 'enfant terrible' of the ultra-modernist school. However, some of these works the composer himself would come to regard as 'the sins of youth', and would cause him great embarrassment under the Nazi regime.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Britten's church parable based on Japanese Noh theatre is performed in a new EIF production by Olivier Py. Introduced by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Purcell's Contemporaries | ...DONALD MACLEOD introduces the composers of Restoration England who, from today's perspective, stand in the shadow of the greatest composer of the era, Henry Purcell.... |
| Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) | ...DONALD MACLEOD takes a series of snapshots of a period that lay at the centre of Tchaikovsky's creative life, from 1876 to 1890.... |
| Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky | ...DONALD MACLEOD takes a series of snapshots of a period that lay at the centre of Tchaikovsky's creative life, from 1876 to 1890.... |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) | ...DONALD MACLEOD focuses on two contrasting operas. The tragic one-act opera Riders to the Sea, a setting of Synge's play, is about a tight-knit fishing community in Ireland where the women are left to grieve when all their men-folk have been taken by the sea. As perhaps the most successful of all Vaughan Williams' operas, it has been called 'the English Pelleas and Melisande'.... |
| Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by Russian music expert Gerard McBurney to explore Gliere's life and work, from his beginnings in Kiev to his later prominent position in Moscow as both composer and teacher.... |
| Richard Addinsell And Noel Coward | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the music of Richard Addinsell and his close contemporary Noel Coward, who both composed songs and music for stage and screen from the 1920s to the 1960s.... |
| Richard Strauss (1864-1949) | ...But controversy has dogged the steps of this complex character, as a result of his anti-Semitic attitudes and association with the Nazis. DONALD MACLEOD begins his exploration of Strauss' life and works with the first two of his characterful tone poems.... |
| Richard Strauss (1864-1949)4/5 | ...Introduced by DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Richard Wagner (1813-1883) | ...Wagner extended his art into politics and philosophy, morality and psychology, but today DONALD MACLEOD focuses on his purely musical achievements. Featuring excerpts from Die Walkure, Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde.... |
| Ring In A Day, The | ...DONALD MACLEOD talks to Dame Anne Evans about the character of Brünnhilde, and to Daniel Barenboim about the enduring qualities of Wagner's music. And poet Mario Petrucci judges the winner of the Ring limerick competition.... |
| Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at the key relationship in Schumann's life - with his wife Clara.... |
| Robert Schumann | ...DONALD MACLEOD traces the start of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck's relationship.... |
| Rossini (1792-1868) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores Rossini's association with Naples, where, helped by the entrepreneur Domenico Barbaia, the composer produced nine operas, amounting to a golden age, both in his career and in early 19th-century opera.... |
| Samuel Barber (1910-1981) | ...To many people, Barber is something of a one-hit wonder with his hugely popular Adagio for Strings. Yet he was one of the most frequently performed composers of the 20th century, both in Europe and America. DONALD MACLEOD begins his exploration of Barber's life and works with a selection of pieces with which he was introduced to the American nation in his first radio broadcast.... |
| Samuel Barber (1910-1981)4/5 | ...He was invited to London to record his cello concerto with the soloist Zara Nelsova. DONALD MACLEOD introduces the final movement from that vintage recording, plus two commissions - one to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the League of Composers and the other a chamber piece for the principals of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.... |
| Scott Joplin (1867-1917) | ...With the help of ragtime performer Morten Gunnar Larsen, DONALD MACLEOD looks at Scott Joplin's beginnings, and the roots of the music he helped to define, which would dominate American music for two decades.... |
| Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) | ...DONALD MACLEOD begins his survey of Sergei Prokofiev with his childhood years, which were spent on a vast estate in the agricultural region of Ukraine. It was through his mother, an accomplished pianist, that Prokofiev first developed an interest in music.... |
| Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943) | ...Sergei Rachmaninov was born within earshot of a piano in the family home at Oneg, near Novgorod. His grandfather had studied with the Irish pianist John Field and would sit most mornings playing pieces by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Field. To begin with, Rachmaninov's family were well off, with extensive property holdings - five estates between them. Gradually though, in main due to his father's mismanagement of the family affairs, the estates had to be sold off and by the 1880s their finances were in such a dire state that the family had to sell up and move to a cramped flat in St Petersburg. It was there, at the age of ten, that Sergei Rachmaninov's musical path began in seriousness when he won a scholarship to the St Petersburg Conservatory. With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Shostakovich (1906 - 75) | ...DONALD MACLEOD talks to Brian Morton, author of a new book on Shostakovich, about how the composer managed to survive under the communist regime by playing a part - that of the 'yurodivy' or Holy Fool.... |
| Sibelius - The Rest Is Silence? (the Years 1925-1957) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the mythology cloaking the last decades of Sibelius' life.... |
| Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) | ...Elgar was famously attached to the English countryside. DONALD MACLEOD uncovers stories and music from Elgar in his natural habitat - the idyllic English landscape.... |
| Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1945) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by musicologist Lewis Foreman to explore the career of Sir Granville Bantock, described by his contemporary Elgar as having 'the most fertile musical brain of our time'. Despite his father's career aspirations for him to join the Indian Civil Service, Bantock became one of the most prolific and successful composers, conductors and educators of the early 20th Century.... |
| Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921- September 2006) | ...Sir Malcolm sadly passed away recently. DONALD MACLEOD talks about Arnold the composer, the professional trumpeter and the conductor.... |
| Sir Richard Rodney Bennett | ...DONALD MACLEOD talks to Sir Richard at his home in New York, about his life and long career as a composer and performer.... |
| Sound Stories | ...With DONALD MACLEOD. 1: Moses. Leader, law-giver, warrior and prophet, Moses led his people to the promised land but was never to set foot in it himself. Including, Tippett: Go Down, Moses (A Child of Our Time). John Cheek (bass), CBSO and Chorus/Michael Tippett. Handel: Plague Choruses (Israel in Egypt). Leeds Festival Chorus, ECO/Charles Mackerras. Schoenberg: Dance round the Golden Calf (Moses and Aaron). Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Georg Solti. Vivaldi: In exitu Israel. Taverner Consort and Players/Andrew Parrott.... |
| Telemann (1681-1767) | ...DONALD MACLEOD begins a week-long exploration of the life and music of the composer who largely eclipsed the reputation even of his compatriot and contemporary JS Bach. In this edition, a view of Telemann's entrepreneurial flare, the springboard for a number of his most important publications.... |
| Tomas Luis De Victoria (1548-1611) | ...DONALD MACLEOD is joined by Jeremy Summerly to explore Victoria's life and works.... |
| Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1750/51) | ...DONALD MACLEOD examines the few known facts of Albinoni's life.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...DONALD MACLEOD presents a profile of one of Wales's most influential creative forces, the composer Alun Hoddinott, after whom the BBC Hoddinott Hall is named.... |
| Victoria And Iberian Polyphony | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the life and work of Tomás Luis da Victoria (1548-1611), and other composers working in Spain in the 16th Century.... |
| Vincent D'indy (1851 - 1931) | ...With DONALD MACLEOD.... |
| Vintage Book Of Walking, The | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores the music and life of a man who is not a household name nowadays, but in his own time was celebrated for his composing and was a hugely influential musical educator.... |
| W H Auden | ...DONALD MACLEOD (rdr)... |
| William Alwyn (1905-1985) | ...Primarily known as a composer for films such as Odd Man Out and Fallen Idol, William Alwyn also wrote many works for the concert hall, which are rarely heard today. In the year of the centenary of Alwyn's birth, DONALD MACLEOD endeavours to set the record straight as he explores the wealth of music Alwyn created during his long and prolific career.... |
| William Boyce (1711-1779) And Thomas Arne (1710-1778) | ...DONALD MACLEOD looks at the music and lives of two English composers who were household names in their day.... |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | ...DONALD MACLEOD opens Mozart's address book to discover the friends, family and fellow musicians who inspired some of his greatest music. These include a piano sonata written to perform with Mozart's sister Nannerl, and a horn concerto for his virtuoso friend Joseph Leutgeb.... |
| Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) | ...DONALD MACLEOD explores how, despite intense criticism in his native Hungary, Zoltan Kodaly began to receive an increasingly favourable reception abroad, thanks in part to the attention of conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and Willem Mengelberg. He also considers Kodaly's relationship with Britain.... |