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BBC 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.
Béla Bartók was regarded as one of Hungary’s greatest composers. His fellow countryman, the pianist Andras Schiff, called him “one of the gi...
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Camille Saint‑Saëns, a composer whose career was shaped as much by personality and circumstanc...
This week, Donald Macleod traces the making of Joseph Haydn – from his long years of service to the Eszterházy princes on a remote Hungarian...
Donald Macleod talks to British composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès. Music featured: Hotel Suite from Powder Her Face Gefriolsae Me,...
Gaetano Donizetti was one of Italy’s most prolific tunesmiths, with almost 70 operas to his name – about as many as Rossini, Bellini and Ver...
Donald Macleod explores five classical composers from the land of the long white cloud, New Zealand: Douglas Lilburn, Jenny McLeod, Dame Gil...
This week, Kate Molleson traces the development of Jean Sibelius’s symphonies. Set against Finland’s changing political climate and Sibelius...
Donald Macleod explores how Amy Beach railed against the sexism of her time to journey from a child piano prodigy to a respected composer. Y...
Donald Macleod delves into the life of the great German composer Heinrich Schütz. Music featured: Wohl denen, die ohne Wandel leben, SWV 482...
This week, Kate Molleson, joined by Dr John Purser, explores the life and music of Erik Chisholm – one of Scotland’s most original and adven...
Donald Macleod takes a tour of the life of Franz Xaver Mozart, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with guest Professor Cliff Eisen. Music featu...
This week, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Aaron Copland, one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century American music. F...
Donald Macleod visits the home of Jane Austen with historian Amanda Vickery to discover some of the seasonal customs and Christmas music of...
This week, Kate Molleson explores the life and music of Sergey Prokofiev – a composer whose imagination shaped some of the most vivid music...
This week, Donald Macleod visits Sir John Rutter at his Cambridgeshire home to celebrate his 80th birthday and explore the twists and turns...
This week, Kate Molleson explores the life and work of a musical giant – drummer and composer Max Roach – in the company of writer and broad...
This week, Donald Macleod explores Wagner’s world of dreams – musical, romantic and revolutionary. Wagner didn’t just write operas; he imagi...
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Elfrida Andrée, a Swedish composer and organist who fought for women’s rights in classical musi...
This week, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the often overlooked younger Haydn brother, Michael. From his early years in Vienna...
To celebrate the centenary of his birth, Kate Molleson explores the life and music of one of most influential figures in all of modern music...
Johann Sebastian Bach is a towering cultural icon, a composer who might be seen as the poster boy for “serious music” and spent most of his...
Kate Molleson speaks to Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga about her life and career. Eleanor Alberga is a quietly rebellious composer....
Donald Macleod explores the life of Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. The Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo is responsible for one of the mos...
Donald Macleod explores Robert Schumann’s years in Dusseldorf – the city where he would spend the final years of his life. Despite often bei...
Donald explores the life of Delius through five of his relationships Donald Macleod meets the people who found themselves bewitched by Frede...
Donald Macleod explores Dmitri Shostakovich’s life during the years of World War II, a period indelibly linked to his most famous work – the...
Composer of the Week celebrates the 90th birthday of Arvo Pärt, one of the world’s most-performed and recognisable living composers. A compo...
Donald Macleod explores Tchaikovsky’s life away from home. He spent significant parts of his peak years travelling or staying with friends,...
Donald Macleod delves into the life and music of Welsh composer, Grace Williams. Music Featured: Elegy for Cynddylan Missa Cambrensis Castel...
Donald Macleod explores the life of maverick composer Erik Satie, the inventor of “furniture music”, whose innovations delighted and divided...
Kate Molleson meets Gavin Bryars, the celebrated and much-loved composer whose kaleidoscopic career defies categorisation. As an inveterate...
Donald Macleod investigates the life of a Renaissance genius, Giovanni da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) was one...
Donald Macleod traces the musical development of Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn. Whilst Fanny’s famous brother Felix Mendelssohn’s career flou...
Donald Macleod explores Beethoven’s endeavours to become the guardian of his brother’s son Karl - a relationship which from the start was bu...
Kate Molleson explores the maverick spirit, fierce passions and phenomenal twilight years of Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček was a true Czech orig...
Donald Macleod colours in Bruch’s life story and reveals the breadth of his output “Only true melody outlasts all changes and shifts of time...
Donald Macleod delves into some of Edward Elgar’s greatest passions. Edward Elgar was a man of many passions, from cycling to chemistry. Thi...
Kate Molleson explores the extraordinary life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) was a p...
This week, Donald Macleod charts the highs and lows of the composer's last five years, from veneration to humiliation and back again. We hea...
Donald Macleod explores Danish composer, Carl Nielsen, through his temperaments Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is probably the most eminent Danish...
Kate Molleson navigates through the personal and professional struggles of Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler: brilliant, fiery and tyrannical – le...
Between new sounds and old songs, Kate Molleson shares the story of Ruth Crawford-Seeger Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives...
Donald Macleod dives into the life and music of Maurice Ravel Music featured: Jeux d'eau Shéhérazade (No 3, L'indifférent) Valses Nobles et...
Donald Macleod delves into the lives and music of The Turkish Five In 1923 the Turkish Republic came into being. On the agenda for the found...
Donald Macleod explores the early years in Benjamin Britten's creative story Benjamin Britten was one of the most influential British compos...
Curtain-up on the life of 19th-century opera star Giacomo Meyerbeer, with Donald Macleod With smash hits including 'Robert le diable', 'Les...
Composer of the Week marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz with a series commemorating some of the musical voices that were silen...
Donald Macleod delves into the life and music of Imogen Holst Imogen Holst was a significant part of the British classical music scene durin...
Donald Macleod delves into the life and music of Michel Legrand Michel Legrand is best known for creating the soundtracks for over 200 films...
Donald Macleod explores Vienna in the company of Franz Schubert Of all Europe’s major cities, perhaps Vienna is the one with the reputation...