Composer of the Week Podcast

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of the 'quintessentially English' Edward Elgar, a composer who nevertheless had musical roots firmly in Europe

Donald Macleod reflects on Vaughan Williams's highly productive later years

Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure. He's joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen, pianist Billy Eidi, and the leading authority on Faure's music, Jean-Michel Nectoux.

Donald Macleod explores the connections and relationships that helped establish Wagner as the most revolutionary musical thinker of the 19th century

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Hummel, regarded by Chopin as one of the three greatest masters alongside Mozart and Beethoven

Donald Macleod explores Copland's life and work through the places he lived, visited, and evoked in his music

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Giacomo Meyerbeer in conversation with one of the composer's leading advocates, Robert Letellier

Donald is joined by Joseph Horovitz,to talk about his own career and that of Gordon Jacob

Donald Macleod is joined by composer Joseph Horovitz, who not only talks about his own career, but also that of his one-time teacher Gordon Jacob

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Giacomo Puccini

As part of Baroque Spring, a month-long season of Baroque music and culture, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Bach

As part of Baroque Spring, Radio 3's season celebrating Baroque music and culture, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Vivaldi.

For Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of arguably the greatest English composer of the era, Henry Purcell

For Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, Donald Macleod explores Handel's years spent in Italy with the help of novelist, biographer and avid Handelian Jonathan Keates

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Charles Gounod, known today for little other than the song Ave Maria and the hugely popular opera Faust, yet an important French composer

Donald Macleod presents a rare glimpse of WF Bach's life and legacy in conversation with Bach scholar David Schulenberg, featuring concerti, flute duets, cantatas and compositions for solo keyboard

Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of two composers who were 18th-century contemporaries but worked at opposite ends of the country: Charles Avison in Newcastle and John Stanley in London

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Anton Bruckner, now celebrated as one of the greatest symphonists of the 19th century

Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Niccolo Jommelli, who was once dubbed 'the new Orpheus'

To mark the composer's 80th birthday year, Donald Macleod is joined by John Williams for an exploration of his life and music

Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's life and music during his time as an emigre in Europe in the 1920s, as well as his return to Russia

Donald Macleod explores the lesser-known masterpieces of popular and controversial Italian composer Ottorino Respighi

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Jacques Offenbach.

Donald Macleod presents an exploration of the life and vocal music of Johannes Brahms.

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Marin Marais and Michel-Richard Delalande, successors to Lully at the Louis XIV's court