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91热爆 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

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

Episodes to download

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    Michael Haydn

    Fri 28 Oct 2016

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

  • Martinu

    Fri 14 Oct 2016

    Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Bohuslav Martinu.

  • Daniel Kidane

    Fri 7 Oct 2016

    Donald is in conversation with Composer Daniel Kidane .

  • Anna Meredith

    Fri 7 Oct 2016

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

  • Helen Grime

    Thu 6 Oct 2016

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

  • Gwilym Simcock

    Tue 4 Oct 2016

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

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Tue 4 Oct 2016

    Donald is joined by composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.

  • Oliver Knussen

    Mon 3 Oct 2016

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

  • Rubbra

    Fri 23 Sep 2016

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

  • Rimsky-Korsakov

    Fri 16 Sep 2016

    Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov's final years.

  • Mendelssohn

    Fri 26 Aug 2016

    Donald Macleod explores the life and work of composers.

  • Janacek

    Fri 19 Aug 2016

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

  • Villa Lobos

    Fri 12 Aug 2016

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

  • Butterworth

    Fri 5 Aug 2016

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

  • Brahms

    Fri 29 Jul 2016

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

  • Mozart

    Fri 15 Jul 2016

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

  • Bernard Stevens

    Fri 8 Jul 2016

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

  • Stravinsky and the Symphony

    Fri 1 Jul 2016

    Donald Macleod explores Igor Stravinsky's life through his symphonies.

  • Johann Strauss I and II

    Fri 17 Jun 2016

    Donald Macleod explores the lives of and music of Johann Strauss I and his son, Johann

  • Gershwin

    Fri 3 Jun 2016

    Donald explores the colourful life and music of George Gershwin, a pianist and composer.

  • Clara Schumann and Her Circle

    Fri 27 May 2016

    Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in

  • Satie

    Fri 20 May 2016

    Satie the Onion: his surreal life viewed in reverse.

  • Dussek

    Fri 13 May 2016

    Donald Macleod explores Dussek鈥檚 early years traveling through Europe.

  • Purcell

    Fri 29 Apr 2016

    Henry Purcell, a musical revolutionary remembered as Britain's 'musical Shakespeare'

  • Byrd

    Fri 22 Apr 2016

    Donald Macleod explores the life and work of William Byrd.

  • Sterndale Bennett

    Fri 15 Apr 2016

    Donald Macleod explores the life and work of William Sterndale Bennett.

  • Vaughan Williams

    Fri 8 Apr 2016

    Donald Macleod charts the long life and career of Vaughan Williams.

  • Telemann

    Fri 1 Apr 2016

    Donald Macleod explores who the real Telemann was.

  • Granados

    Fri 25 Mar 2016

    Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composer-pianist Enrique Granados.

  • Women of the MacDowell Colony

    Fri 18 Mar 2016

    Donald explores the work of the many female composers who have visited MacDowell colony.

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