Composer Of The Week

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Robert Schumann, focusing on the literary influences that helped shape his work

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the colourful and eccentric British composer Lord Berners. While he behaved as a very English gentleman, his compositions had a distinctive European slant.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla

Donald Macleod explores five key years of Mozart's life and presents five of his chamber works for solo wind and strings

Donald Macleod on the music of Alessandro Stradella. Highly respected and successful, he wrote in all genres: oratorios, cantatas, theatre music, opera seria, songs, and sacred and instrumental music

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Aram Khachaturian, a composer whose colourful scores led him to be dubbed the 'Rubens of Russian Music'

Donald Macleod explores a less celebrated, but important, area of Debussy's output - his chamber works

Exploring the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, who would become a lifelong friend, critic and inspiration

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of George Dyson, celebrated composer, broadcaster, teacher and author of the first manual on hand grenade use

Donald Macleod celebrates the life and music of Warsaw-born composer Andrzej Panufnik

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Gaetano Donizetti, who composed almost 70 operas in 19th-century Italy

Donald Macleod is joined by Professor Graham Sadler to celebrate the work of one of the greatest figures in French musical history, composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau

Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's relationship with the British Isles, which he visited nine times between 1884 and 1896

Donald Macleod explores Igor Stravinsky's life and work up to the end of World War I, introducing rarely-heard and early compositions

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Cole Porter, one of the most famous Broadway composers of his time. His achievements include a catalogue of witty, sophisticated and sometimes risque songs

Donald Macleod celebrates the life and music of Leos Janacek. Known primarily as a folklorist and teacher, he didn't achieve international recognition as a composer until he was into his sixties

Donald Macleod on the life and music of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, a composer whose concertos, operas, string quartets and over 100 symphonies made him a rival to Haydn in the late 18th century.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Danish organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude

Donald Macleod is joined by Dr Kate Kennedy to explore the life and work of Ivor Gurney. Including works specially recorded for the series.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Richard Strauss