Composer of the Week Podcast

Schoenberg 06.01.2017 1:14:16 ↓

Donald Macleod explores Schoenberg's life from five different viewpoints

Novello 30.12.2016 1:22:32 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Ivor Novello.

Prokofiev 23.12.2016 1:12:00 ↓

Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's triumphant and ultimately tragic return to the USSR.

Caccini 16.12.2016 1:03:33 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Francesca Caccini and her circle.

Handel 09.12.2016 1:03:35 ↓

Donald Macleod focuses on Handel the organist.

Faure 25.11.2016 52:17 ↓

Donald Macleod follows the dramatic thread running through Gabriel Faure's musical output

Schubert 11.11.2016 1:03:35 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the remarkable and prolific final year of Schubert's life.

Meredith Monk 04.11.2016 1:24:28 ↓

Donald Macleod talks to Meredith Monk about her remarkable life and unique music

Michael Haydn 28.10.2016 1:11:12 ↓

Michael Haydn. He was a composer admired and respected by Mozart and revered by Schubert

Martinu 14.10.2016 1:02:19 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Bohuslav Martinu.

Daniel Kidane 07.10.2016 21:35 ↓

Donald is in conversation with Composer Daniel Kidane .

Anna Meredith 07.10.2016 25:08 ↓

Donald Macleod talks to acoustic and electronic music composer Anna Meredith.

Helen Grime 06.10.2016 23:21 ↓

Donald Macleod speaks to British composer Helen Grime about her work.

Gwilym Simcock 04.10.2016 21:02 ↓

Donald's joined by composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock .

Anoushka Shankar 04.10.2016 29:00 ↓

Donald is joined by composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.

Oliver Knussen 03.10.2016 1:35:27 ↓

Donald Macleod invites composer Oliver Knussen to join him to discuss his life and career

Rubbra 23.09.2016 1:12:19 ↓

Donald is joined by Edmund Rubbra's sons Benedict and Adrian, who discuss their father and his music

Rimsky-Korsakov 16.09.2016 1:09:58 ↓

Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov's final years through the lens of his biographer, Vasily Vasilyevitch Yastrebtsev

Mendelssohn 26.08.2016 1:19:36 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of composers.

Janacek 19.08.2016 58:54 ↓

Donald looks at Janacek's life through his instrumental and small-scale compositions.

Villa Lobos 12.08.2016 1:29:51 ↓

Donald explores the music and life of Villa-Lobos with musicologist Manoel Correa do Lago

Butterworth 05.08.2016 1:13:48 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the music of George Butterworth and four of his contemporaries

Brahms 29.07.2016 53:33 ↓

Looking at the life and work of Johannes Brahms and some of his larger orchestral works

Mozart 15.07.2016 1:07:17 ↓

Donald explores Mozart's relationship with his home city of Salzburg.

Bernard Stevens 08.07.2016 1:07:34 ↓

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of neglected British composer Bernard Stevens