Composer of the Week

The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe's leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It's still regarded as one of the best images we have today. Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags to riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy for an astonishing 48 years. But this week, Donald Macleod puts the public face of this celebrated figure to one side. He's going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends. Music Featured: Piano Trio No 4 in F major, Hob.XV:39 Signor voi sapete, Hob.XXIVb:7 Symphony No 1 in D major, Hob 1/1 (1st mvt) Salve Regina in E major, Hob. XXIIIb:1 (I. Salve Regina) Horn Concerto No 1 in D, Hob.VIId:3 Vada adagio, signorina, Hob.XXIVb:12 L'isola disabilitata, Act 2, sc 12 Sonata No 46 in A flat major Hob XVI/46 II (3rd mvt) L'infedeltà delusa, Act I. Scene 1: Introduction: Bella sera The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (Sonata No 2) Armida, Act 1: Parti Rinaldo - Se pietade avete Mass in D minor, H.XXII:11 “Nelson Mass” (Gloria) Motetto "O ceolitum beati", Hob. XXIIIa:G9 Keyboard Concerto No 2 in D major, Hob.XVIII:2 String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33, No 2 'The Joke' (2nd mvt) Michael Haydn: Requiem in C minor (excerpts) String Quartet in G major, Op 33, No 5 (2nd & 4th mvts) Symphony No 82 in C major, 'The Bear' (1st mvt) Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ, Hob. XXII:5 (excerpts) String Quartet in D major, Op 64, No 5, 'The Lark' (1st mvt) Piano Trio No 39 in G major, Hob.XV:25 'Gypsy' (3rd mvt) Symphony No 91 in E flat major (2nd mvt) Piano Sonata No 59 in E flat major, HobXVI:49 (1st mvt) Piano Trio No 40 in F sharp minor, Hob: XV:26 (2nd mvt) Die Schöpfung, Part 3, (No 30) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l4cf And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donal Macleod explores how, from childhood, Poulenc was exposed to two versions of Paris: one that was working class and religious, another that was high society, secular... and avant-garde. Francis Poulenc was the epitome of Parisian high society: suave, convivial and connected. Or was that how he wanted us to see him? The critic Claude Rostand famously commented that Poulenc was a combination of “moine et voyou” - monk and rogue. This week, we follow the composer from Paris's artisanal upper class heartland, to the city's dark underbelly, discovering the moments when the monk and the rogue met face-to-face. Music Featured: Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, FP 146 (1st mvt) Sonata for Piano 4 Hands Gnossiennes Rapsodie Nègre L'Album des Six (5th mvt, ‘Valse') Les Biches Concert Champêtre Les Soirées de Nazelles Les Litanies à la Vierge Noire Bleuet Les Animaux Modèles L'Histoire de Babar Les Mamelles de Tirésias La Fraîcheur et le Feu Les Dialogues des Carmelites La Voix Humaine Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Alice McKee For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lkym And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Sir Arthur Sullivan became the most renowned composer of the Victorian era, with his fame spreading across Europe and America too. His output spanned many genres including oratorios, a symphony, chamber music, hymns and anthems, but it was for his collaboration with the librettist W. S. Gilbert on operetta's that he is best remembered today. He was a personal friend to royalty, and he was knighted when he was in his early forties. He also had a liking for playing cards, buying race horses and gambling, frequently loosing the substantial earnings from the stage works he'd composed. Sullivan became a pillar of the British musical establishment, so that when he died, despite wanting to be buried with his family in Brompton Cemetery, he was laid to rest in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, with an additional service at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace. Music Featured: HMS Pinafore (Overture) HMS Pinafore (When I was a lad) O Israel Overture ‘In Memorium' Will he come? Symphony in E major, ‘Irish Symphony' (Andante espressivo) Cox and Box (excerpt) The Merry Wives of Windsor (excerpts) Lead Kindly Light HMS Pinafore (excerpts) Pirates of Penzance (excerpt) Who is like unto thee Mikado (excerpts) The Golden Legend (excerpt) Ruddigore (excerpts) The Yeomen of the Guard (excerpts) Ivanhoe (excerpt) Utopia Limited (Society has quite forsaken) The Long Day Closes Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kpgh And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

As Christians around the world prepare for Easter, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of two nuns who were also composers. Though Hildegard of Bingen and Isabella Leonarda lived five centuries apart, their stories and music are connected by their shared faith and their shared vocations. Both lived cloistered lives, shut away in convents and cut off from the everyday concerns of the societies in which they lived. Yet, they also enjoyed a profoundly rich and human connection with the world and with their God, revealed in the music and poetry they created and sent into the world. Music Featured: Hildegard: Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans Leonarda: Sonata, Op 16 No 8 Hildegard: Columba Aspexit Hildegard (ed Wishart): O frondens virga Hildegard: O virga ac diadema Leonarda: Memento rerum Leonarda: Volo Jesum, Op 3 No 4 Leonarda: Sonata, Op 16 No 3 Leonarda: O anima mea Leonarda: Dixit dominus, Op 19 Hildegard: Ordo Virtutum (Prologue and Scene 1) Hildegard: Antiphon, O quam mirabilis est Leonarda: Purpurei Flores, Op 20 Leonarda: Magnificat Op 19 Leonarda: Sonata Op 16, No 12 Leonarda: Ave suavis dilectio, Op 6 No 5 Hildegard: O rubor sanguinis Hildegard: O Ecclesia Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Hildegard of Bingen and Isabella Leonarda https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kh9p And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

150 years ago this week, Sergei Rachmaninov was born: one of the finest pianists of his generation, touring the world in the 1920s and 30s as a musical megastar. Composing had been his real passion since childhood, and towards the end of his time in Russia before the Revolution, it was farming. Though St Petersburg and then Moscow was his base for much of his early life, it was Ivanovka – a country estate deep in the Russian countryside - that formed him. The house and the land surrounding it were a major source of his creative inspiration until his last visit in 1917. Donald Macleod explores how important Ivanovka was to Rachmaninov, and how he carried the precious memory of it with him when he left it behind for a life of exile. Music Featured: Lilacs op 21, No 5, ‘Siren' Piano Concerto No. 1 (mvt 1) Dances from Aleko Cello Sonata in G minor (mvt 1) Vesna Symphony No 2 (Mvt 2) Songs Op 34, No 12 Piano Concerto No 3 (Mvt 1) All-Night Vigil (Excerpt) Piano Concerto No 2 (Mvt 1) Etudes-Tableaux Op 39, No 6 The Bells (Mvt 2) Prelude Op 3, No 2 Three Russian Songs Symphony No 3 (Mvt 2) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Excerpt) Isle of the Dead Symphonic Dances (Mvt III) Suite No 2 for Two Pianos (Mvt IV) The Bells op.35 (Mvt IV) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Megan Jones For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k8ck And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Georges Bizet's story ought to have been a very straightforward one. It was clear to everyone who met him just how brilliantly and excitingly talented he was. He was also fortunate to live and work in Paris, a city laden with musical opportunities in the mid-nineteenth century. Donald Macleod shows how Bizet's life proved more challenging and event-filled than anyone might have expected – and that success can never be guaranteed! Music Featured: Carmen (extracts) Symphony in C, III. Scherzo Le Docteur Miracle: Overture L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (arr. Guirand), IV. Farandole Te Deum Roma, II. Allegro Vivace & III. Andante molto Vasco da Gama: Aria, “Ouvre ton Coeur” Les Pêcheurs de Perles: Duet,“Au fond du temple saint” La jolie fille de Perth: choeur de la Saint-Valentin (Act 4) Variations chromatiques Jeux d'enfants: No 3 ‘La poupée' Djamileh: Overture L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: I. Prelude & II. Minuetto Patrie Overture Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades. Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria's New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna's cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime. Music Featured: String Quintet in A minor, Op 7 (excerpt) Piano Sonata, Op 8 (Allegro enérgico) Herbst, Op 20 No 3 (Vier Lieder) Wie eine Vollmondnacht, Op 20 No 4 (Vier Lieder) Zwei dreistimmige Frauenchöre, Op 10 Piano Sonata, Opus 8 (excerpt) Cello Sonata, Op 17 (Moderato) String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (Moderato) Intermezzo in D, Op 3 No 4 (Fünf Klavierstücke) Vier Lieder, Op 2 Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (Moderato serioso) UK Broadcast Premiere String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (excerpt) Die stille Stadt, Op 4 No 1 Heroic Overture, Op 21 (excerpt) Alle die wachsenden Schatten, Op 9 No 3 (Drei Chöre) Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (excerpt) UK Broadcast Premiere Heroic Overture, Op 21 String Quintet in A minor, Op 7 (Adagio con expressione) Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 31 (excerpt) Zwei Lieder, Op 11 Cello Sonata, Op 17 (excerpt) Epilog zur einer Tragodie 'Brand‘ – symphonic fantasy, Op 25 Intermezzo in D minor, Op 3 No 3 (Fünf Klavierstücke) Impromptu in D minor, Op 3 No 5 (Fünf Klavierstücke) In Memoriam, Op 28 No 5 (Herbstlieder) Novelette in A flat, Op 3 No 2 (Fünf Klavierstücke) Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (Allegretto amabile) UK Broadcast Premiere Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 31 (Adagio sostenuto) Drei Gesange, Op 33 String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (Allegro con spirito) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

The singer, and composer Barbara Strozzi neither held any position at church or court, nor had a consistant patron, and yet she published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. Donald Macleod is joined by Professor Laurie Stras to explore the life of this extraordinary musician, and the world of 17th Century Venice in which she lived and worked. This was a world in which, despite the acknowledged successes of female artists in literature and music, being a successful composer seems to have aroused suspicion, and brought accusations of impropriety. Music Featured: Mi fa rider la speranze, Op.7'10 Che si puo fare, Op 8'6 Sonetto Proemio dell'Opera, Op 1'1 Godere in gioventù, Op. 1'12 L'Usignuolo, Op.1'5 Il contrasto di cinque sensi, Op. 1'14 Parla alli suoi pensieri, Op.6'5 L'Amante segreto, Op. 2'16 Sospira respira, Op.6'17 Godere e tacere, Op.1'9 Cuore che reprime alla lingua di manifestare il nome della sua cara, Op.3'1 La sol fa, mi, re, do, Op.2'25 Cor donato, cor rubato, Op. 3'10 Sino alla morte, Op.7'1 E pazzo il mio core, Op.8'9 Fin che tù spiri, spera, Op.7'3 Cristiana Presutti, soprano Ensemble Poiesis La riamata da chi amava, Op.2'18 Silentio nocivo, Op. 1'6 Donne Belle, Op.8'12 Se volete così me ne contento, Op. 6'18 Lagrime Mie, Lamento, Op. 7'4 L'Eraclito amoroso, Op. 2'14 Amante loquace, Op. 6'16 Il Lamento - S'ul rodano severo, Op.3'3 Begl'occhi, Op.2'2 Mater Anna, op.5'1 O Maria, Op.5'7 Tradimento, Op.7'9 Sete pur fastidioso, Op. 7'12 Conclusione dell'opera, Op.1'25 Parasti in dulcedine, Op.5'8 L'Astratto, op.8'4 Salve Regina, Op.5 Gite, o giorni dolenti, Op.2'21 L'amante modesto, Op.1'13 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Barbara Strozzi (1619 – 1677) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

“So great a musician are you.....that if the Fates carried you off.....music would be mute.” So wrote a contemporary of Thomas Tallis, showing us just how highly this composer was regarded in his own time. Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod traces the career of Tallis, unquestionably one of England's greatest ever composers. We follow him from the early faint mentions of the composer in Dover Priory, to his 40-plus years serving four successive monarchs as part of the Chapel Royal, and through the upheaval of one of the most tumultuous periods in all of English history. O Sacrum Convivium Lamentations of Jeremiah I & II Euge celi porta Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix Ave, rosa sine spinis When shall my sorrowful sighing slack Sequence: Celeste Organum - Agnus Dei Magnificat for 4 voices Salve Intemerata Mass for four Voices Magnificat for 5 voices 5 part Litany Sancte Deus Hodie nobis caelorum Videte Miraculum for Vespers on Purification of Virgin Mary Remember not, O Lord God Te Deum for Meanes If Ye Love Me A New Commandment Gaude Gloriosa In nominee II Mass: Puer natus est nobis – Agnus Dei Archbishop Parker's Psalter: O Come in One to Praise the Lord; E'en like the Hunted Hind; Expend, O Lord, my Plaint; Why Brag'st in Malice High ; God Grant with Grace Psalm 2, the third of 9 tunes for Archbishop Parker's psalter “Why Fum'th In Fight” Suscipe quaeso domine My Soul Cleaveth to the Dust O Nata Lux (arr. Christian Forshaw) Spem in alium Cantiones Sacrae - Salvator Mundi I; Derelinquit impius; Semone blando angelus; In ieiunio Miserere nostri Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Thomas Tallis (1505 – 1585) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores how Smetana created a musical Czech identity The title of Smetana's most popular work, ‘Ma Vlast', gives us a clue to what drove him through much of his career. It translates as ‘My Homeland' and the music is Smetana's ardent tribute to the Czech sprit of his beloved Bohemia. The composer was deeply involved with his people's struggle for cultural and political independence from the Hapsburg empire. He pledged his art to those aims and he even took to the streets to fight on the barricades, on one occasion. Smetana's life was also beset by great misfortunes. When times were hardest, he always turned to music, even after illness made composing an almost impossible exertion. He created some of his most extraordinary works under the most painful circumstances. This week Donald Macleod follows Smetana as he grows from naïve revolutionary into one of the foundational figures in Czech music. Music Featured: The Bartered Bride: Overture Triumphal symphony, II. Largo maestoso Polka: Memory of Plzeň Wedding Scenes (orch. F. Hertl) Piano Trio in G minor Vision at the Ball Memories of Bohemia, Op 13 Håkon Jarl Song of the Czechs Overture to Doktor Faust The Brandenburgers in Bohemia The Bartered Bride: Act III finale The Two Widows: Act 2: Scene 3 Má Vlast: 2. Vltava & 4. Z českých luhů a hájů. On the Sea Shore Libuše: Overture String Quartet No.1 in Em ‘From My Life' Czech Dances, Book 2: No.7 ‘The Lancer' String Quartet No.2 in D Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor, for BBC Audio Cardiff For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Max Richter (b. 1966) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ghdw And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

As performer, composer, impresario, musical director, and teacher, Antonio Vivaldi was a key figure in the musical life of Baroque Italy. Thanks to his set of Concertos “The Four Seasons”, he remains one of the most famous and best loved composers today. This week, Donald Macleod puts these four celebrated concertos front and centre as he also explores the four seasons of Vivaldi's own life, lingering a little in his summer. We'll follow him from the start of his musical story, teaching at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, through his time as an opera composer, catering to the crowds who swarmed to Venice during carnival season, to his successes away from Venice. Vivaldi had many highs in his career, however he also had some difficult low points, finding himself embroiled in scandal and accused of immoral behaviour, before dying in poverty in a foreign city – his star having fallen from favour. Music Featured: Violin Concerto in E major, Op 8 no. 1 RV 269 “Spring” Credo, RV 591 L'oracolo in Messenia – “S'in campo armato” La costanza trionfante de gl'amori e de gl'odii, RV 706 Ottone in villa, RV 729 – “Frema pur, si lagni Roma” Farnace, RV 711 - “Gelido in Omni” Armida - Act I Scene 13: “Armata di furore” Concerto for Multiple Instruments, 'per l'orchestra di Dresda' in G minor, RV 576 Magnificat in G minor, RV 610b Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 8 no. 2 RV 315 “Summer” Violin Concerto in F major, RV 293 Op.8 no 3 “Autumn” Dorilla in Tempe, RV709 – Act II, Scene 8: “Arsa da rai cocenti” Griselda, RV 718 – “Ho il cor gia lacero”; “No, non tanta crudelta”; Terzetto “Non piu regina”; “Son infelice tanto” Farnace, RV 711 – “Forse, o caro, in questi accenti...” Lauda Jerusalem, RV609 Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297 Op.8 no. 4 “Winter” Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Mel Bonis (1858 – 1937) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Mel Bonis's name may not be a familiar one these days, but she produced somewhere in the region of three hundred compositions. There's no doubt that she was sensitive to gender discrimination. It's why she chose to publish her music under the name of Mel rather than her birth name Mélanie. She was born in 1858 to parents of modest means. Her father worked for the watch company Breguet, still in business today, and her mother worked in the haberdashery trade. Neither of them held any particular interest in music, so it was down to young Mélanie to teach herself the play the family's piano. Her talent was recognised by a visiting friend who facilitated a meeting with one of the leading lights of the day, César Franck, an esteemed professor of organ at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire. Mélanie enrolled and showed great promise as a student, winning several end of year prizes. Her studies came to an abrupt end when her parents refused to give their consent to her marriage to a fellow student there, a poet, critic and singer, Amédée Hettich. Her life took a sharp turn two years later when, at the instigation of her parents, she married a twice widowed man of comfortable means. Thereafter her life as a composer had to take a back seat to the demands of raising five step-children and three of her own children with her husband, Albert Domange. Even so, she managed to continue to compose, producing music for her own instrument, the piano, and in almost every other genre as well. Étiolles, Op 2 Ophélie, Op 165 Piano Quartet No 1 in B flat major, Op 69 - II. Intermezzo. Allegretto tranquillo Impromptu pour piano, Op 1 5 pièces pour piano No 1: Gai Printemps, Op 11 No 2: Romance sans paroles, Op 29 No 3: Menuet, Op 14 No 4: Églogue, Op 12 No 5: Papillons, Op 28 Cello sonata in F major, Op 67 – III. Très lent Fantaisie, Op 72 "Septuor" Près de ruisseau, Op 9 Pensées d'automne, Op 19 Piano Quartet No 1, Op 69 – I. Moderato and IV. Final. Allegro ma non troppo Villanelle, Op 4 Dès l'aube, Op 18 Marionnettes, Op 42 Sonata for Flute and Piano Suite Orientale, Op 48 No 2 Valses-caprice, Op 87 Elève toi mon âme L'Oiseau Bleu, Op 74 Cello sonata in F major, Op 67 – I. Moderato quasi andante Suite en forme de valses, Op 35 to 39 La chanson de Rouet, Op 24 Carillon mystique, Op 31 Les Gitanos, Op 15 No 2 Suite en Trio, Op 59 Salomé, Op 100 Mazurka-ballet, Op 181 Trois melodies, Op 91 Soir et Matin, Op 76 Scènes de la Forêt La Cathédrale Blessée, Op 107 Sonate pour violon et piano, Opus 112 – IV. Finale Finale, Op 187 Miocheries, Op 126, No 13, La toute petite s'endort Regina coeli, Op 45 Piano quartet No 2 in D major, Op 124 Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 144 Le songe de Cléopatre, Op 180 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Mel Bonis (1858 – 1937) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h57j And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores the turbulent life of Dmitry Shostakovich, and asks the ultimate question: Who was he? A faithful Soviet lackey… or a secret dissident? Dmitry Shostakovich, like his home country of Russia, was a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. From the very beginning of his career, he pushed the boundaries, but under Stalin's stifling regime, experimental artists were enemies of the state, and Shostakovich was at the top of the wanted list. The composer was forced to censor his work and betray his own morals to survive - or was he? Some say Shostakovich was Stalin's faithful lackey; others read dissident messages in his music. This week, Donald Macleod traces five turning points in the composer's career, we start with his First Symphony. Admitted to the Conservatoire while still just a child and battling ill health, his debut made a splash for all the right reasons – and the wrong ones too. Then we hear about the fateful night that Stalin paid a visit to the opera, and Shostakovich's career as a composer was changed forever. After denouncing his music, Stalin offered Shostakovich an opportunity to rescue his reputation however, it comes at great personal cost. The death of Stalin should have meant rebirth for Shostakovich, but once again he finds himself backed into a corner, forced to make a decision that shocks and mystifies those closest to him. Music Featured: Piano Concerto No. 2 In F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10: II. Allegro Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10: IV. Allegro molto Symphony No. 2 in B Major, Op. 14 “To October” The Nose, Op. 15, Act 2: Scene 6 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, Op. 29, Act 2: Scene 5 Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43: I. Allegretto poco moderato Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op 47: IV. Allegro non troppo Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 99: I. Nocturne. Moderato From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op.79: III. Lullaby Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67: IV. Allegretto Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93: IV. Andante – Allegro The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a: VII. Introduction String Quartet String Quartet No. 7 In F. Sharp Minor, Op.108: I Allegretto Hamlet Suite, Op. 116a: Ophelia's Insanity String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: I. Largo Symphony No. 13 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 “Babi Yar”: IV. Fears Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Alice McKee For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fdx8 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod chats to Max Richter, one of the world's most in-demand composers German-born British musician Max Richter is one of the most influential composers of his generation. A streaming sensation with over a billion listens, he blends classical and electronic elements in his music and is just as at home on 6Music as on Radio 3. He's a producer, pianist and serial collaborator whose trailblazing work ranges from ballets and orchestral works to major Hollywood scores and solo albums. At his studio in rural Oxfordshire, Donald sits down with Max to talk about his musical life, from making synthesisers in his bedroom, to Grammy nominations, writing the world's longest lullaby and tackling some of society's biggest questions through the medium of music. Across the week, we dig into Max's eclectic back catalogue, and journey through one of his most popular works, his reinterpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Music Featured: Spring 1 (Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) Last Days Sketchbook Andras Spring (Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) Gongstream (excerpt) The Blue Notebooks On the Nature of Daylight Summer (Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) Flowers for Yulia ; Autumn Music 2 Selection from 24 Postcards in Full Colour Waltz with Bashir (excerpts) Infra (excerpts) Three Worlds: Woolf Works (III. Orlando - excerpts) Sleep (excerpt) Dream 3 (in the midst of my life) Path 5 (delta) Voices : All Human Beings ; Origins Winter (Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) Mercy Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Amelia Parker, for BBC Audio Cardiff For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Max Richter (b. 1966) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ghdw And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod presents another selection of composers who are most famous for a single work. Last Easter, Composer of the Week explored the lives of ten composers whose music we adore but mainly only for a lone composition. This week, Donald Macleod makes a second selection of classical ‘One Hit Wonders' - ten more composers who have been catapulted into the mainstream thanks to the surprising popularity of just one of their pieces. He's joined by pianist and music director, Yshani Perinpanayagam, to uncover these composers' stories and to share examples of their best music. We'll hear the familiar hits alongside plenty of captivating music that's less well-known. Music Featured: John Cage: 4'33'' (extract) John Cage: Hymns & Variations: Hymn A (After W. Billing's "Old North") John Cage: In a Landscape Jeremiah Clarke: Trumpet tune 'The Prince of Denmark's March' Jeremiah Clarke: Ode On The Death Of Henry Purcell (extract) Boccherini: String Quintet in E major, Op 11 No 5 (3rd mvt) Boccherini (arr. Grützmacher) Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major (2nd mvt) Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No 4 in D (3rd mvt) Monti: Czardas Monti: Noël de Pierrot, Act II, "Ô vous que j'adore" Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra Rodrigo: Cancíon y danza Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for More One Hit Wonders https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9nt And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod presents another selection of composers who are most famous for a single work. Last Easter, Composer of the Week explored the lives of ten composers whose music we adore but mainly only for a lone composition. This week, Donald Macleod makes a second selection of classical ‘One Hit Wonders' - ten more composers who have been catapulted into the mainstream thanks to the surprising popularity of just one of their pieces. He's joined by pianist and music director, Yshani Perinpanayagam, to uncover these composers' stories and to share examples of their best music. We'll hear the familiar hits alongside plenty of captivating music that's less well-known. Music Featured: Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda, Act III) Ponchielli: Sinfonia in Bb minor, Op 153 Widor: Toccata (from Symphony No 5) Widor: Piano Quartet in A minor Op 66 (2nd and 3rd mvt) Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz, Op 183 Waldteufel: Solitude Waltz, Op 174 Paganini: Caprice in A minor, Op 1 No 24 Paganini (arr. Sedlar): Moses Fantasy Paganini: Sonata No 6 in F major: Minuet – Allegretto Paganini: Violin Concerto No 1 in D major (3rd mvt) Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne: Bailèro Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne: Chut, Chut & L'Antouèno Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for More One Hit Wonders https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9nt And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod invites us to join Bach and his family during the Christmas season, at five different periods in his life. Christmas can be special wherever you live, but to experience a truly Christmassy Christmas, many would say that the only place to go is Germany. Plenty of Britain's favourite Yuletide traditions originated there and Germany's citizens have always had a special knack for celebrating this time of year. This was certainly true in J.S. Bach's lifetime and, right through his career, he produced quantities of amazing Christmas music that we still love and revere today. All this week, Donald Macleod invites us to join Bach and his family during the Christmas season, at five different periods in his life, to see how his story develops and revel in the glorious works he created for Christmastime. Music Featured: Chorale Prelude: Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91: Opening Chorus Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64: 5. Was die Welt in sich hält Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40 Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: Movts. 10-16 Wachet! betet! betet! wachet', BWV 70a: Opening chorus In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: 5. Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn & 6. Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152: 1. Sinfonia Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a: 2. Traget ihr Lufte den Jubel von hinnen Brandenburg Concerto No 4: 1. Allegro Christmas Oratorio, BWV248, Part 6: Opening Chorus: Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043: 2. Largo ma non tanto Flute Sonata No 4 in C major, BWV1033: 1. Andante: Presto & 2. Allegro Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Domine Deus Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110: Opening Chorus A Musical Offering, BWV 1079, Sonata sopr'il Sogetto Reale a Traversa, Violino e Continuo: 1. Largo & 2. Allegro Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV 769 Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV 603 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for JS Bach at Christmas https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g3hl And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores the recently unearthed life and works of Leokadiya Kashperova, one of the most talented composers and pianists of her generation. The name of Leokadiya Kashperova was, for many decades, recorded in mainstream musical history as a footnote: the piano teacher of Igor Stravinsky. Her full story as a musician and composer has finally now been unearthed, through the researches of Dr Graham Griffiths, supported by Radio 3's Forgotten Women Composers project in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This week, in the year of her 150th anniversary, Donald Macleod is joined by Graham Griffiths to rediscover this once renowned musician. Featuring many specially made recordings and UK premieres. Kashperova was one of the most talented composers and pianists of her generation, described as ‘a most welcome phenomenon of St Petersburg's musical life'. She studied composition with Nikolay Solovyov and piano with Anton Rubinstein. Both Glazunov and Balakirev favoured Kashperova in the interpretation of their music and she travelled internationally as a soloist to destinations such as Berlin and London. She also often performed her own compositions. Prior to 1917 most of Kashperova's works were published and heard, but the arrival of the Russian revolution caused her voice to be silenced. Public performances of Kashperova's music stopped altogether because of her connections with the gentry. Private performances were rare. She continued to compose but now without any hope of hearing it played. Music Featured: Symphony in B minor, Op 4 (excerpt) The Murmuring of the Rye (In the Midst of Nature) Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 1 No 2 (Allegro appasionato) Symphony in B minor, Op 4 (Andante – Allegro risoluto) Night Cello Sonata in G major, Op 1 No 1 (Allegro moderato) Piano Trio in A minor, Op Posth (Scherzo: Allegro) Piano Concerto in A minor (Allegro maestoso – Molto allegro) UK Premiere Autumn Leaf No 1 (In the Midst of Nature) Symphony in B minor, Op 4 (Andante) Nachtgebet (Songs of Love: 12 Romances, No 11) UK Premiere Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 1 No 1 (excerpt) Dich Einz'gen lieb' ich (Songs of Love: 12 Romances, No 6) UK Premiere Wiedersehen (Songs of Love: 12 Romances, No 8) UK Premiere Piano Trio in A minor, Op Posth (excerpt) Symphony in B minor, Op 4 (Finale: Andante sostenuto – molto allegro) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fwz0 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores how Cesar Franck, who was, known for being retiring and unassuming, became a leading figure of French musical life. It seems as if Franck's diffident character positively hindered his advancement. He wasn't interested in moving in glamorous social circles, and lived, according to one visitor who called on him the year before he died, "like a monk". This natural reticence may be why the composer of popular works such as the Violin Sonata, the Piano Quintet, a ground-breaking String Quartet and the glorious Symphony in D found that all too often his critics were quick to find fault and were slow to recognise his worth. He had some disappointments to bear, in an age when opera was thriving, none of his four operas saw the light of day in his lifetime. Recognition for his two major choral works, La Rédemption and Les Béatitudes was to come after his death in 1890 at the age of 67. Franck did enjoy some support. Early on Liszt recognised his talent and did his best to help him get his work performed, and later on a band of his pupils, among them the composer Vincent d'Indy did their best to promote their beloved teacher's music. To mark the 200th anniversary of Franck's birth, Donald Macleod spends the week delving a bit deeper into this enigmatic and complex character from his early compositions which pay homage to Liszt and the pianistic tradition of Hummel, to the wonderfully vivid pictorial canvas of Le Chasseur Maudit. Music Featured: Panis angelicus (Messe á trois voix, Op 12 FVW 61) Variations brillantes sur Gustave III, Op 8 (excerpt) Trio Concertant No 2 in B flat Op 1, No 2 (4th mvt) Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne L'ange et l'enfant Les Septs Paroles du Christ au Croix, No 7 Prélude, Fugue et Variation (Six Pieces, Op 18) Symphonic Variations Egologue, Op 3 Stradella (Overture) Hulda (Act 4: excerpt) Patria Piano Quintet in F minor (3rd mvt) La Rédemption (7th – 9th mvt) Violin sonata Op 23 (1st mvt) Prélude, Choral et Fugue Blessed are the Meek (Les Béatitudes, No 2) Rebecca (Camel drivers'chorus) Prélude (Prélude, Aria et Final) String Quartet in D major (4th mvt) Chorale No 3 in A minor, M40 Symphony in D (3rd mvt) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for César Franck (1822-1890) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fnfs And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores Chopin and his relationship with novelist George Sand, from their first meetings to their fractious end. Early in 1837, Franz Liszt introduced Chopin to a woman who would have a profound influence on his life. Her name was George Sand and Chopin's relationship with the novelist would go on to stretch for almost a decade and prove to be the longest romantic bond of the composer's life, and a defining creative relationship for both of them. Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod explores the intertwined lives of these two key figures in French romantic-era life. Music Featured: Impromptu No 1 in A-flat major, Op 29 Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21 (1st mvt) Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23 Nocturne, Op 37, No 12 Preludes, Op 28, No 2 Ballade no 2 in F major, Op 38 Polonaise in C minor, Op 40, No 2 Minute Waltz, Op 64, No 1 Nocturne in C minor, Op 48, No 1 Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58 (1st mvt) Ballade No 3 in A flat major, Op 47 Wiosna (Spring), Op 74, No 2 Mazurka No 51 in F minor, Op 68, No 4 Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65 (2nd mvt) Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op 60 Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt) Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op 64, No 2 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fdx8 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Marking the centenary of her birth, Donald Macleod delves in to the little known world of 20th century British composer Doreen Carwithen. Doreen Carwithen is one of only a handful of female British composers who worked in the film industry in the 1940s and 1950s. Dramas, mysteries, horror flicks, documentaries, the thirty plus films she scored form a substantial part of her musical legacy. An award winning student, Carwithen first came to critical attention in the concert hall, with the catchily titled ODTAA, One damn thing after another, in 1947. Predictably, newspaper headlines made much of her gender and her youth. She was just 24. It seemed as if a bright future lay ahead, yet, at the beginning of the 1960s Carwithen would stop writing music, a situation which perhaps in part explains why her music dropped off the radar for many years. One hundred years since her birth, Donald Macleod brings to light the little-known yet fascinating story of this 20th century British composer. This week Donald Macleod is joined in conversation by Leah Broad, whose new biography of Carwithen is due out next year. They chart Carwithen's career from the age of five, when she began piano and violin under the guidance of her musical mother, to the moment when she ceased to compose. Music Featured: Men of Sherwood Forest (excerpt), arr Philip Lane Serenade for tenor and piano String Quartet No 1 Concerto for piano and strings Piano sonatina Violin sonata Bishop Rock String Quartet No 1 (2nd mvt) Four Piano Preludes Suffolk suite (1st mvt) Cello sonatina String Quartet No 2 Mantrap Suites, arr Philip Lane Three Cases of Murder, arr Philip Lane East Anglian Holiday, arr Philip Lane Boys in Brown Suite, arr Philip Lane Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith

The northern Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem was meant to be an upper-class white neighborhood, but rapid overdevelopment led to empty buildings and desperate landlords seeking to fill them. In the early 1900s, in what became known as the Great Migration, African-Americans from the South moved north to New York in droves, searching for work after the war, and hoping to escape the racial violence tearing through America. Harlem became a centre for Black culture in the city, drawing in poets like Langston Hughes, thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and musicians. These musicians pioneered new forms of jazz and blues, subverted the expectations of Black performers and broke through into the mainstream. This week, Donald Macleod is joined by jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, as he traces the rise and fall of the Harlem Renaissance, transporting us from rent parties to night clubs to Broadway, as we hear a joyful, soulful explosion of sound. Music Featured: Carolina Shout Echoes of Spring Willie's Blues The Harlem Strut Finger Buster St Louis Blues Shuffle Along Medley Love Will Find a Way Everything Reminds Me of You Troublesome Ivories Good Morning Blues Motto/Dead in There The Weary Blues Could Be/Bad Luck Card/Bad Man Consider Me I, Too Black Beauty Black and Tan Fantasy It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Creole Rhapsody Symphony in Black West End Blues Sobbin' Hearted Blues Ain't Misbehavin' Hotter Than That I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues When the Saints Go Marching In Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Alice McKee For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for The Harlem Renaissance https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dy5s And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores the relationship between Verdi and the city of Milan. As the hearse carrying the coffin of the composer Giuseppi Verdi travelled through Milan, more than half of the city's population lined the streets to pay their respects and catch a final glimpse of their hero. Few musicians have made such an indelible impression on the population of a country, and become more linked to their sense of identity than him. And fewer still have become as ingrained in the fabric of a city as Verdi is in Milan. Today, as well as a statue to the composer, both the Conservatoire and a major theatre are named after him. So how was this relationship, between the city of Milan, and Verdi – a man born in Le Roncole, which was then French territory – who would rise to become the most successful Italian composer of his generation, forged? Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod explores the twists and turns of Verdi's relationship with Milan -where Verdi would see his first iconic successes, and where he would breathe his last, but also a city where, for a time, he tried to ban the performances of his music. Music Featured: Requiem - Sanctus Io la Vidi (Scena lirica) La Forza del Destino - Overture La seduzione Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (excerpt) Nabucco - “Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate” I Lombardi alla prima crociata – “Oh belle, a questa misera” Ernani – “Ernani Involami” Giovanna d'Arco – Act 1, Scene 2 Alzira Overture Macbeth (1847 version) – “ Vegliammo invan due notti - “Un lume recasi in man?” La battaglia di legnano – “Giuriam d'Italia” Aida – “Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside”; triumphal march La Forza del Destino – “La Vergine degli angeli” Requiem – Libera Me, Domine Falstaff – Act II Scene II Otello - “Ave Maria” Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dpc0 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from his first steps up the musical ladder, to his premature death at the age of 37 and the legacy left behind. At the turn of the 20th century, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor could have been described as the most famous Black person in Britain. His cantata trilogy, the Song of Hiawatha, was an overnight success, and by the age of 25 he had packed out the Royal Albert Hall with a thousand performers, let alone the audience. His fame took him all around Britain and America as choral societies from Worcester to Washington DC all wanted to sing his music, and Coleridge-Taylor became a role-model, especially for African-Americans. But tragically, just over a decade later, he would be dead. He remained a household name into the 1930s, only for his flame to flicker out much sooner than he deserved. All this week, Donald re-visits his fascinating story, with recordings predominantly released in the last 5 years, showing how excited today's performers are to rediscover his delightful music. Music Featured: Going Up Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (iv. Finale) Magnificat in F major Piano Quintet, Op 1 (i. Allegro con moto; ii- Larghetto) Symphony, Op 8 (iii. Scherzo) Nonet (ii. Andante con moto) African Romances, Op 17 (Ballad) Hiawatha Overture Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (excerpt) Othello Suite Nonet (3rd and 4th movements) Romance of the Prairie Lilies (arr. P.E. Fletcher for orchestra) The Bamboula for piano African Suite (iv. African Dance, orch. Chris Cameron) Big Lady Moon Summer is gone Violin Concerto, Op 80 (ii. Andante semplice; iii. Allegro molto) Hiawatha's Departure (excerpt) Deep River (arr. Kanneh-Mason Trio) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Amelia Parker For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dfvp And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod delves into the life and works of Robert Schumann during the 1840s. The 1840s was the decade when Robert and Clara Schumann's married life began, and was the decade in which he established himself as a significant composer. Focusing on both his personal and professional life, Donald explores the ups and downs Schumann faced during these revolutionary ten years. Music Featured: Der Hidalgo (Three Poems, Op 30: No 3) Die alten, bosen Lieder (Dichterliebe, Op 48: No 16) Symphony No 1 in B-flat major, Op 38, "Spring" (1st mvt) Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52 Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op 44 (2nd and 3rd mvt) Das Paradies und die Peri, Op 50 (excerpt) String Quartet No 2 in F major, Op 41, No 2 (1st mvt) Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61 (1st mvt) Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63 (1st mvt) Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (1st mvt) Fruhlingsgesang (Album for the Youth, Op 68: No 15) Piano Trio No 2 in F major, Op 80 (3rd and 4th mvt) Genoveva, Op 81 (Act 4: Steil und steiler) Nachtlied Op 108 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Iain Chambers For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Robert Schumann (1810-1856) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cyl5 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod journeys into the varied musical landscape of Adolphus Hailstork, in conversation with the composer himself. American composer Adolphus Hailstork has written in many genres ranging from orchestral and chamber, to choral, song cycles and operatic scenes. Of African-American heritage and now in his eighties, Hailstork's works have been performed by major orchestras in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, and leading conductors have championed his music including Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim and Lorin Maazel. Born in 1941, his early instrumental studies included the organ, piano, violin and the voice, but it was his experience both in the Anglican Cathedral tradition, and hearing and singing spirituals, that have had a significant impact upon the development of his own musical language. For many years he's been a Professor of Music at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, and he resides in the state of Virginia, USA. His own list of teachers is impressive, not least of all Nadia Boulanger at the American Institute at Fontainebleau. Hailstork's own reputation has been significant, and he's been called the Dean of African-American composers. Music Featured: Symphony No 3 (Vivace) The Lamb String Quartet No 3 (Moderato) Piano Sonata No 2 Symphony No 3 (Scherzo) Fanfare on Amazing Grace Three Spirituals for Orchestra Symphony No 2 (Adagio) Three Spirituals for String Trio Symphony No 1 I Will Sing of Life (Songs of Life and Love) Eight Variations on Shalom Chaverim Arabesques Whitman's Journey: I launch out on the endless seas Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Adolphus Hailstork (1941) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cgkd And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores Carl Maria von Weber's city lives and those dramas and scandals survived throughout. Weber's relationship with European cities mirrored his life and work, from the restless wandering of his earlier years, to the way his life changed after the success of his opera Der Freischütz. And in his final months he travelled to London to compose and produce another major opera, Oberon, but would die after giving its first performances. The young Weber had an unerring ability to cause offence. He got involved in multiple love affairs that caused him problems. He was also very good at racking up debts. These traits unfold as we follow Weber's picaresque journeys around Europe, flitting from city to city: sometimes chasing opportunities, sometimes in disgrace, at other times escorted away under armed guard. Music Featured: Grande polonaise in E-Flat major, Op 21, J. 59 Der Beherrscher der Geister (Ruler of Spirits), J. 122 Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat major, Op 34, J. 182 (1st mvt) Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op 19, J. 50 (1st and 2nd mvt) Das Hifthorn schallt, ‘Huntsmen's Chorus' (Silvana, Act 1) Momento capriccioso, Op 12, J.56 Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 11, J. 98 Clarinet Concertino in C minor / E-Flat major, Op 26, J. 109 Abu Hassan, J. 106 (Overture) Piano Concerto No 2 in E-Flat major, Op 32, J. 155 (2nd and 3rd mvt) 9 Variations on a Russian Theme, "Schöne Minka", Op 40, J. 179 Missa sancta No 1, Op 75, J. 224 (Kyrie and Gloria) Aufforderung zum Tanze, Op 65, J. 260 Der Freischütz, J. 277 (Act 3: Finale) Oberon, J. 306 (Overture) O Araby dear (Oberon, J. 306, Act 3) Piano Sonata No 4 in E minor, Op 70, J. 287 (3rd mvt) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Iain Chambers For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cckh And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

This week Donald Macleod lifts the lid on the life and music of Anton Bruckner, focusing upon different themes to better understand both the man and the music. Anton Bruckner was one of the great symphonists, and yet recognition for his talents as a composer came late in life. He was an Austrian by birth, and was noted for his improvisatory skills at the organ. In fact, he received invitations to travel abroad to France and England, where he demonstrated his skills at the organ console. Yet, although as a composer he would become recognised as one of the most innovatory figures of the second half of the 19th century, during his lifetime he was not only plagued by doubt especially made manifest through the harsh reactions of the Viennese music critics, but was also often dubbed a buffoon because of his dress, dialect and mannerisms. Music Featured: Symphony No 3 in D minor, WAB 103 (3rd mvt) - arr. Mahler Ave Maria, WAB 6 Fantasie in G major, WAB 118 Requiem, WAB 39 (Dies Irae) Symphony No 00 in F minor, WAB 99 (2nd mvt) - arr. Mahler Symphony No 3 in D minor, WAB 103 (4th mvt) Prelude in E flat major, WAB 127 No 2 Postlude in D minor, WAB 126 No 1 Libera me, WAB 22 Vor Arneths Grab, WAB 53 Prelude and Fugue in C minor, WAB 131 Te Deum, WAB 45 March in D minor, WAB 96 - arr. Edwin Horn Symphony No 3 in D minor, WAB 103 (1st mvt) String Quartet in C minor (3rd mvt) Symphony No 1 in C minor, WAB 101 (3rd mvt) Tota pulchra es, WAB 46 Symphony No 3 in D minor, WAB 103 (2nd mvt) Symphony No 7 in E major, WAB 107 (4th mvt) Prelude in C major, WAB 129 Locus iste, WAB 23 Symphony No 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (3rd mvt) Symphony No 6 in A major, WAB 106 (2nd mvt) Symphony No 8 in C minor, WAB 108/2 (1st mvt) Virga Jesse floruit, WAB 52 Pange lingua, WAB 33 Mass No 2 in E minor, WAB 27 (Sanctus) Mass No 3 in F minor, WAB 28 (Agnus Dei) Symphony No 4 in E flat major, WAB 104, ‘Romantic' (1st mvt) Symphony No 9 in D minor, WAB 109 (2nd mvt) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bs92 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores the work of Franz Schubert, focusing on five distinct phases in the composer's life. And afterlife. We start in 1815, the year in which Schubert turned 18 and was a reluctant schoolmaster still living under his father's roof. Although he was in many ways unhappy and constrained by his circumstances, he was still prodigiously prolific. In the years after 1820, we see him spreading his wings as he'd never been able to do before, enjoying a sense of liberation after being shackled to the schoolroom in his father's house. In 1824 we see a year of ill-health for Schubert, but also a year of fighting back, with attempted cures and triumphant, ambitious music. In Schubert's final year – inevitably coloured by sadness, but also by great spirit and tenacity - emerged what is for many people Schubert's crowning achievement: his song-cycle Winterreise. Schubert died at the age of 31, when most people are just getting going in life – in the same decade as Keats and Byron and Shelley – and he's often thought of, with them, as an exemplar of a kind of doomed romanticism. Central to that is a sense of having been thwarted in life – encapsulated, in Schubert's case, by the fact that so much of his music was unpublished in his lifetime, so much never even heard. However, in the years after his early death, his music found an audience, including the BBC's regular ‘Schubert Nights' in the 1920s. Music Featured: Erlkonig Sonatina for violin and piano No 2 in A minor String Quartet No. 12 Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli (Variation 38) Am See Sei mir gegrüßt, o Sonne! (Alfonso und Estrella, Act 1) Fantasie in C major, “Wanderer” Das Wandern (Die Schone Mullerin, No 1) Des Baches Wiegenlied (Die Schone Mullerin, No 20) Piano Sonata in C major for Four-Hands, "Grand Duo" String Quartet No 13 in A minor, Op 29, "Rosamunde" Arpeggione Sonata in A minor (1st - 2nd mvt) Winterreise 2, No 1: Die Post Winterreise 2, No 7: Tauschung Symphony No 9 in C major, “the Great” (4th mvt) Piano Sonata No 21 in B Flat major (1st mvt) Die Nacht Der Tod und das Mädchen Symphony No 10 (orch. Brian Newbould) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Martin Williams For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Franz Schubert (1797-1828) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bkkp And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of legendary organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude. Buxtehude was a musical star in his own time, whom Johann Sebastian Bach walked almost 300 miles just to meet and learn from. Yet, the facts of Buxtehude's own story are far from straight forward. Doubts remain over so many details in the composer's life. We can't even be sure when or where he was born, leading to three different countries claiming him as their own, and for a musician who perhaps above all was famed for his organ music, it is remarkable that not one single organ piece by him was published in his lifetime. In this Composer of the Week series, Donald Macleod pieces together what we do know about Buxtehude, the pre-eminant European composer before Bach, and finds a multifaceted personality and ground-breaking musician who worked his way across Europe via three different churches dedicated to St Mary, and who – once he settled in Lubeck - acted as a kind of centre of gravity for other musicians of his age. Music Featured: Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149 Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV 113 Chaconne in E minor, BuxWV 160 Aperite mihi portas justitiae, BuxWV 7 Sonata in B flat major, BuxWV273 Chorale Prelude 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott', BuxWV 184 Att du, Jesu, will mig hora, BuxWV 8; Herren var Gud, BuxWV 40 Prelude in A minor, BuxWV 153; War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BuxWV 222 Klinget fur Freuden, BuxWV 119 Gott, hilf mir, BuxWV 34 Canzona in C major, BuxWV 166 Harpsichord suite in G major, BuxWV 240 Mein Gemut erfreut sich, BuxWV 72 O frohliche Stunden, o herrlicher Tag, BuxWV 120 Klag-Lied of seven strophes, "MuB der Tod denn auch ent- binden', BuxWV 76 Wacht! Euch zum streit, 'Das jüngste Gericht' – Act II Aria “Weg mit allen irdischen Schatz” Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75 - Ad Facium "Illustra faciem tuam" Chorale “Nun lob meine Seele den Herren”, BuxWV 213 Wie Wird erneuert, wie wird erfreuet, BuxWV 110 (Incl. Trumpets!!) Auf, Saiten, auf!, BuxWV 115 Wacht! Euch zum streit, 'Das jüngste Gericht' Schwinget euch himmelan, BuxWV 96 Trio Sonata for violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord in E minor, BuxWV 258 (Op. 1, No. 7) Drei schone Dinge sind, BuxWV 19 La Capricciosa - 32 variations in G major, BuxWV.250 for keyboard Divertissons nous aujourd'hui, BuxWV 124 Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab, BuxWV 38 Prelude in E minor, BuxWV142 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Dietrich Buxtehude (c1637-1707) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bcfc And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald explores composer Claudio Monteverdi, one of the most important figures in the development of Western music. As a composer of both secular and sacred music, over the course of his career he worked for court, church and was one of the key figures in the development of opera. Across this week of programmes, Donald Macleod tracks Monteverdi's career across three cities, from promising child prodigy, through poverty and plague, to his final years in the priesthood, with huge artistic successes along the way. Music Featured: Toccata (Orfeo) Surge propera amica mea (Sacrae cantiunculae) O bone Iesu, illumine oculos meus (Sacrae cantiunculae) Surgens Iesu (Sacrae cantiunculae) Iusti tulerunt spolia impioru (Sacrae cantiunculae) Non si levav'ancor l'alba novella (2nd book of Madrigals) E dicea l'una sospirand'all'hora (2nd book of Madrigals) O come e gran martire (3rd book of Madrigals) O primavera (3rd book of Madrigals) Occhi, un tempo (3rd book of Madrigals) Rimanti in pace (3rd book of Madrigals) Questi vaghi concenti Vespro della Beata Vergine (Ave maris stella a 8) Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda De la Bellezza le dovute lodi, SV 245 Anima mia, perdona (4th book of madrigals) Che se tu se il cor mio (4th book of madrigals) Cruda Amarilli (5th book of madrigals) Ah, dolente partita! (4th book of madrigals) Quel augellin che canta (4th book of madrigals) Pur ti miro (L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act 3 Sc 8) Orfeo (Act 5 : Final ritornello and Moresca) Orfeo (Act 3: excerpt) Lamento d'Arianna Missa da capella a sei voci “In illo tempore” (Kyrie and Gloria Il Ballo della Ingrate (Overture) Misero alceo, SV 114 (6th book of Madrigals) Zefiro torna, SV 108 (6th book of Madrigals) Presso un fiume tranquillo, SV 116 (6th book of Madrigals) Dixit Dominus (Vespers, 1610) Tirsi e Clori (7th book of Madrigals) Litanie della Beata Virgine, SV 204 Oblivion soave (L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act 2) Gloria a 7 (Selve morale e spirituale) Ardo avvampo, mi struggo, ardo, accorrete, Madrigali guerrieri, No 7 (8th book of Madrigals) Lamento della ninfa, Madrigali amorosi, No 9 (8th book of Madrigals) Torna, torna, deh torna Ulisse (Il ritorno d'Ulisse, Act 1 Sc 1) Beatus Vir Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019knl And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's life as a set of themes and variations, beginning with his very first musical excursions in the form in the early 1790s. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) composed piano music in the form of themes and variations across his entire career - from his earliest published work to his late, titanic “Diabelli Variations”, lasting nearly an hour. And Beethoven's life can itself be seen as a set of variations on a theme: recurring episodes of unrequited love, artistic anguish, angry fallings-out and constant striving for the highest pinnacle of musical achievement. Yet Beethoven's piano variations often lie in the shadow of his 32 great sonatas for the instrument. This week, Donald Macleod puts that right - shining a light on this remarkable corpus of work, as well another often-overlooked genre: his piano bagatelles. Diabelli Variations (Theme and 1st variation) Variations in C Minor on a theme of Ernst Christoph Dressler, WoO 63 Variations in G on “Quant'e piu bello”, WoO 69 Piano Trio no 2 in G, Opus 1 No 2 (2nd mvt) Piano Concerto no 2 in B Flat, Op 19 (3rd mvt) Six Bagatelles, Op 126 Variations in D on “Rule Britannia!”, WoO 79 Variations in F, Op 34 Christ On The Mount Of Olives, Op 85 (excerpt) Seven Bagatelles, Op 33 Bagatelle in C Major, Woo 54 “Lustig-Traurig” Clarinet Trio, Op 38 (5th mvt) An die Hoffnung, Op 32 Eroica Variations, Op 35 Triple Concerto in C Major, Op 56 (2nd and 3rd mvts) Tarnopolsky: Echoes Of The Passing Day Bagatelle in A Minor (“Für Elise”), WoO 59 Variations in C Minor, WoO 80 Mass in C Major: Credo Variations on an original theme (March from the “Ruins of Athens”), Op 76 Eleven Bagatelles, Op 119 Diabelli Variations, Op 120: Theme Diabelli Variations, Op 120: Variations 1-10 Diabelli Variations, Op 120: Variations 11-14 Franz Liszt: Variation 24 for Diabelli's Waltz F.X. Mozart: Variation 28 for Diabelli's Waltz Schubert: Variation 38 for Diabelli's Waltz Diabelli Variations, Op 120: Variations 15-18 Diabelli Variations, Op 120: Variations 25-33 Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Steven Rajam For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019c66 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores Ravel's meteoric rise to fame and early chamber music - including a long-lost violin sonata, and a unique arrangement for four ondes martenots. The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) is much loved for its remarkable orchestral colours and brilliant virtuosity, heard vividly in works like Bolero, Daphnis and Chloe and Gaspard de la Nuit. But his chamber music, intimate, crystalline, and beautiful, is often overlooked. This week Donald Macleod puts that right, as he introduces every one of Ravel's works for small instrumental ensemble; an array of work that spans the composer's colourful life and career. Music Featured: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré Violin Sonata No 1 in A minor Sites Auriculaires (No 2, 'Entre Cloches') Chanson du Rouet Si morne! Shéhérezade (Overture) String Quartet in F major (1st mvt) Noël Des Jouets Deux Epigrammes de Clement Marot String Quartet in F Major (2nd - 4th mvt) Miroirs (No 3, 'Une Barque sur l'Ocean') Introduction and Allegro Deux Melodies Hebraiques (No 1, 'Kaddische') Piano Trio in A Minor (1st mvt) Trois chansons Piano Trio in A Minor (2nd mvt) Le Tombeau de Couperin (Prelude and Rigaudon) Piano Trio in A Minor (3rd and 4th mvts) Deux Melodies Hebraiques (No 2, 'L 'enigme eternelle') Frontispie L'Heure Espagnole (excerpt) La Valse (version for 2 pianos) Sonata for Violin and Cello Sarabande (Pour le Piano) L'Eventail de Jeanne (Fanfare) Tzigane L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (excerpts) Trois Chansons Madécasses Violin Sonata No 2 in G major Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Steven Rajam For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00194q9 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod begins the second leg of his “Tour de France” in three weeks focused on French composers across the centuries. This week, Donald introduces us to the remarkable life story and unsung musical innovations of Hélène de Montgeroult. There aren't many composers who can claim that music saved their life – at least, in the literal sense. But for Hélène de Montgeroult, it was her astounding powers of improvisation that got her out of the stickiest situation imaginable, hauled in front of the guillotine during the French Revolution. This week, we'll follow her rollercoaster tale and hear how she had her own revolutionary impact on the piano literature. Described as a precursor of Romanticism, anticipating the language of Schubert and Mendelssohn, audiences said her playing “made the keys speak”. She broke ground as the first female professor at the Paris Conservatoire and left behind 600 pages of music, including a complete course for piano which elevated the technical study into a miniature lyrical artform. As Donald pieces together her tantalising story, he's joined by pianist Clare Hammond, who has spent recent years getting to know Montgeroult and recording an album of her études. Music Featured: Etude No 66 in C minor Etude No 101 in C sharp major Sonata in E flat, Op 1 No 2 Sonata in D major, Op 5 No 1 (1st mvt) Sonata in A minor, Op 2 No 3 (2nd mvt) Etude No 38 in A minor Etude No 65 in E flat minor Etude No 17 in E flat major Etude No 55 in F minor Etude No 19 in F major Sonata in A minor, Op 2 No 3 (1st and 3rd mvt) Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 5 No 3 Etude No 107 in D minor Sonata in F minor, Op 5 No 2 Etude No 114 in F minor Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 1 Thème varié dans le genre moderne Sonata in D major, Op 5 No 1 (2nd-4th mvts) Etude No 82 in C minor, Etude No 104 in G sharp minor Etude No 74 in C minor Etude No 26 in G major Etude No 73 in D major Fugue No 1 in F minor Fugue No 3 in G minor Etude No 110 in A major Etude No 112b in A flat major Sonata in A minor, Op 2 No 3 Etude No 106 in B major Etude No 62 in E flat major Fantaisie in G minor Sonata in C major, Op 2 No 2 Etude No 112 (1st mvt) Etude No 111 in G minor Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Amelia Parker for BBC Audio Cardiff For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018ylr And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod begins three weeks focused on French composers, in honour of this month's ‘Tour de France' cycle race. "I have followed the theatre since the age of twelve", so said Rameau to a young composer who wrote to him for advice. It's an intriguing insight into a man who didn't produce his first opera until the age of fifty. Quite why it took him that long isn't clear. Up to that point he had been a church musician, following in his father's footsteps, holding a succession of posts mainly in the South of France. He also taught and established himself as a theoretician of some note. A brief, early sojourn in Paris, a mecca for any theatrical hopeful, ended abruptly when he was still in his twenties. It wasn't until he returned to Paris in 1723 that Rameau was able to start writing music for theatrical entertainments, at first for the popular Fairs, and then finally in 1733 for the Paris Opera. In the midst of constant cultural rows over the merits of French and Italian operatic style, Rameau flourished as a theatre composer. At one point he was so successful the management of the Paris Opera decreed no more than two of his works should be mounted per season, to allow other composers to get a look in! He completed his final opera, a masterpiece, Les Boréades in 1763, the year before he died at the age of eighty. Across the week Donald Macleod focuses on this remarkable period in Rameau's life, from the first of his theatrical works to his last. Music Featured: Naïs (Overture) Naïs (Prologue: Lancez, lancez la foudre) Achante et Céphise (Act: excerpt) Un horizon serein (Les Boréades) La poule (Suite in G minor) Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 3: Quels biens!) Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 4, Sc 1 to 3) Dardanus (Overture) Castor et Pollux (Act 2: excerpt) Castor et Pollux (Act 4, Sc 3) Dardanus (Act 1, Sc 1: Cesse, cruel Amour, de regner sur mon âme) Dardanus (Act 2, Sc 3) Dardanus (Act 4, Sc 1) Les fetes d'Hébé (excerpt) Les surprises d'amour (Ouverture) Les surprises d'amour (Act 1, Sc 6: The Abduction of Adonis) Hippolyte et Aricie (Act 1, Sc 1: Temple sacre, séjour tranquille) Platée (Act 1, Sc 5 and 6: excerpt) Platée (Act 2, Sc 2 to 4) Le Temple de la Gloire (Act 3, Finale) Les indes galantes (excerpt) Zaïs (Act 4, Sc 3 to 4) Anacréon (Sc 6) Pygmalion (Sc 3) Pygmalion (Sc 4) Les fêtes de Polymnie (Prologue, Sc 3) Zoroastre (Act 3: excerpt) Achanté et Céphise (Act 3: excerpt) Achanté et Céphise (Act 3: excerpt) Les Boréades (Act 2: excerpt) Les Boréades (Act 4: Entrée de Polymnie) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018qjv And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod surveys one of the most famed Spanish composers of the Renaissance, Tomás Luis de Victoria. Tomás Luis de Victoria has become the most famed Spanish composer of the Renaissance and ranks alongside Palestrina and Lassus as one of the greatest composers of the 16th century. He was a singer, organist, scholar, teacher, and a priest but it was in composition that he made his most significant impact. His motets, Offices for the Dead and music for Holy Week are admired for their great beauty and intensity and his musical talent thrust him into the orbit of Spain's royal family and the most senior clerics in Rome. His devotion to God sat at the heart of his creative life; and he wrote, “there is not a single thing as useful as music, which, reaching our hearts soft but deeply, provides a clear benefit not only for our soul but also for our body.” Music Featured: O magnum mysterium Ave Maria Missa pro defunctis (Taedet animan meam) Missa pro defunctis (excerpt) Missa pro defunctis (excerpt) Magnificat octavi toni O Magnum Mysterium Vadam et circuibo civitatem a 6 Ascendens Christus in altum Super flumina Babylonis Missa O magnum mysterium Ave maris stella a 4 Gaude Maria Nigra sum sed formosa Ardens Est Cor Muem Magnificat septimi toni Lamentations for Maundy Thursday Conditor alme siderum a 4 Aurea luce a 4 O Ildephonse Pange Lingua ‘more hispano' a 4 Victimae paschali Laudes a 8 Veni, Sancte Spiritus a 8 Missa pro Victoria a 9 Missa Surge Propera a 5 (Credo) O quam gloriosum O vos omnes Missa pro defunctis (excerpt) Versa est in luctum Libera me (Absolution) Missa Salve regina a 8 Alma Redemptoris Mater Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018862 And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores Dvořák's American years and uncovers what he achieved during his time there. Antonín Dvořák became the first Czech composer to achieve global fame. His gift for transforming the folk styles of his native Bohemia into richly Romantic classical music won him admirers far beyond his homeland. Consequently, Dvořák was approached to leave Europe and serve as director of the newly established National Conservatory of Music in America. His sponsors hoped he would help foster a new and distinctive American musical style, less reliant upon Germanic traditions. During his time in America, from 1892 – 1895, Dvořák composed many of his most celebrated works, including his 9th symphony and his cello concerto. Before leaving, he'd started work on his Cello Concerto, inspired by his yearning for the Bohemian countryside. Back at home, Dvořák also completed his String Quartet No 13 which some have seen to be his final work to have musical associations with America. Dvořák's had set out to encourage American musicians to look to their own traditions rather than simply following behind Europe. He may not have been entirely successful but he did encourage others in that aim, such as Harry T. Burleigh. Burleigh said of Dvořák that he'd assisted in changing attitudes of African American's towards their own folk tradition, and most importantly, that Dvořák "was a man of the people". Music Featured: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 “From the New World” (excerpt) Piano Trio No 4 in E minor, Op 90 “Dumky” (Lento maestoso) Carnival Overture, Op 92 Requiem, Op 89 (Introitus) Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 13 (excerpt) Silent Woods, Op 68 No 5 Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88 (excerpt) Requiem, Op 89 (Confutatis Maledictis) Symphony No 6 in D, Op 60 (Scherzo: Furiant) Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88 (Allegretto grazioso – Molto vivace) Te Deum, Op 102 Southland Sketches (excerpt) - Harry T. Burleigh Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 “From the New World” (excerpt) Sonatina for violin and piano, Op 100 (Larghetto) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Arr. Harry T. Burleigh Go Down Moses – Arr. Harry T. Burleigh Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 “From the New World” (Largo) String Quintet, Op 97 “American” (excerpt) Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 “From the New World” (Allegro con fuoco) Humoresques, Op 101 No.7 (excerpt) Suite in A, Op 98B (Allegro) String Quartet No 12 in F, Op 96 “The American” (Vivace) Humoresques, Op 101 (excerpt) Biblical Songs, Op 99 (excerpt) Among the Fuchsias, from Five Songs of Laurence Hope - Harry T. Burleigh Worth While, from Five Songs of Laurence Hope - Harry T. Burleigh Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (excerpt) Lullaby, B194 - Dvořák Arr. J. Suk String Quartet No 14, Op 105 (Molto vivace) Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (Adagio ma non troppo) String Quartet No 13 in G, Op 106 (excerpt) Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (Finale) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Luke Whitlock For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Dvořák and America https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00182rp And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

Donald Macleod explores Handel's crucial relationship with the British monarchy, and how he and the Georgian Kings helped forge a new sense of British culture and identity. What could be more quintessentially British than a rousing chorus of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus? Or his anthem Zadok the Priest, which has been performed at every British coronation since 1727? Yet, though the composer became was a naturalised British subject, he was born in Germany and kept his German accent all of his life. The same was true of the two Kings Handel served, George I and George II. This week, as we head towards a royal jubilee weekend, Donald Macleod explores Handel's crucial relationship with the British monarchy, and how he and the Georgian Kings helped forge a new sense of British culture and identity. Music Featured: Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus Agrippina, Act 2: "Pensieri, voi mi tormentate" Handel: Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1 Rinaldo, Act 1: “Cara Sposa” ‘Utrecht' Jubilate Te Deum in D, ‘Queen Caroline' (Mvts 1 & 2) Water Music (excerpt) Radamisto, Act 2: “Ombra caro di mia sposa” I will magnify thee Overture to Admeto Riccardo primo, re d'Inghilterra, Act 2 ‘T'amo si' My Heart is Inditing Ariodante Act III: ‘Dopo Notte' and Finale Zadok the Priest Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline: I. Introduction, II. The Ways of Zion do Morn Messiah: ‘Every valley shall be exalted' and No 4 ‘And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed' Israel in Egypt: (extracts from Parts II and III) Concerto Grosso No 12 in B minor ‘Dettingen' Te Deum: ‘Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day' Occasional Oratorio: Overture Handel Organ Concerto Op 4 No 1: II. Allegro Judas Maccabaeus, Part 2: ‘See! The Conquering Hero Comes', ‘Sing Unto God' and ‘O Lovely Peace' Music for the Royal Fireworks Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Handel and the Crown https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017m2m And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

This month, Donald Macleod takes a new look at one of Britain's best loved composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season - marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. Over the course of four weeks and twenty programmes, Donald will be delving into Vaughan Williams' life story and work in intriguing detail, and he'll also be talking to some of the leading authorities on Vaughan Williams to share and explore fresh perspectives on a variety of overlooked and less well known aspects of his life and work, forming a comprehensive and absorbing portrait of a composer whose body of work has had such an enduring impact on British cultural life. In this, the final week of Composer of the Week's landmark series, Donald will focus primarily on the years 1948-1958, the final decade of Vaughan Williams' life. The composer was, by this point recognised as the Grand Old Man of English music, and for a younger generation of British composers had begun to represent the establishment. He was also beginning to feel his age, but was still managing to surprise critics with some of his new works, and he showed little sign of slowing down, continuing to lead a busy life, and launching into new endeavours too: foreign travels which included a major tour of the US, a major house move, and, following the death of Adeline, a second marriage. Donald will also be speaking to Vaughan Williams experts Ceri Owen and Alain Frogley about Adeline Fisher and Ursula Wood, Vaughan Williams two wives, and about Vaughan Williams' legacy, and the changing reception to his music since his death. Music Featured: Symphony no. 6 in E minor - I. Allegro Prayer to the Father of Heaven An Oxford Elegy (excerpt) Concerto Grosso for strings Pilgrim's Progress - House Beautiful Sons of Light - III. The Messengers of Speech Four Last Songs 3 Impressions – II. The Solent Songs of Travel Three Shakespeare Songs Romance in D flat for harmonica & strings Old Hundredth Silence and Music Symphony 7 ‘Sinfonia Antartica' - III. Landscape - Lento Turtle dove; Dark-Eyed Sailor; John Dory Symphony no 8 in D minor - II. Scherzo alla marcia; III. Cavatina Vision of Aeroplanes Symphony no. 9 in E minor - IV. Andante tranquillo Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes Symphony no. 9 - II. Andante Sostenuto The Lover's Ghost Suite from 49th Parallel (excerpt) Nocturne: Whispers of Heavenly Death A London Symphony (1913 version) – IV. Finale (excerpt) Presented by Donald Macleod Producer Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rjd And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

This month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at one of Britain's most popular composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season - marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. Alongside programmes which delve into Vaughan Williams' life story and music in fascinating depth, over the course of four weeks and twenty programmes, Donald will also be talking to some of the leading authorities on Vaughan Williams to share and explore share new perspectives on a variety of overlooked and less well known aspects his life and work, forming a comprehensive and absorbing portrait of a composer whose body of work has had such an enduring imprint on British cultural life. In the third week of this landmark series, Donald focuses on the years 1931-1947, a dramatic period in not just Vaughan Williams' life, but in the wider world too, encompassing the second World War. Vaughan Williams was 67 when Britain and France declared war on the Reich, so too old for active service, but he threw himself into contributing wherever he could to the war effort. Musically, this was another period when the composer suffered from a crisis of failing inspiration and creative drought as the political turmoil deepened around him, but it would also give rise to some of his finest music, including three of his best regarded Symphonies – numbers 4, 5 and 6. Music Featured: Into the Woods my Master Went Fantasia on Greensleeves Piano Concerto in C major - I. Toccata; II. Romanza Symphony no. 4 in F minor – III. Scherzo; IV. Finale con epilogo fugato The Running Set 5 Tudor Portraits - V. Jolly Rutterkin Two Hymn-Tune Preludes Festival Te Deum in F Riders to the sea – Act I: “…and may he have mercy on my soul” Serenade to Music (Orchestral Version) Epithalamion - The Lover's Song Epithamalion - Song of the Winged Love Bushes and Briars Symphony no. 5 in D major - IV. Passacaglia Dona Nobis Pacem - I. Agnus Dei, II. Beat! Beat! Drums!, III. Reconciliation Coastal Command Suite - Finale 5 variants of Dives and Lazarus 49th Parallel - The Invaders Partita for Double String Orchestra - IV. Fantasia Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A minor - III. Finale Symphony No 3, 'Pastoral Symphony' (excerpt) Song of Thanksgiving (excerpt) Symphony No.6 in E minor - II. Moderato; III. Scherzo Symphony no. 2 “A London Symphony” – IV. Andante con moto (excerpt) Symphony no. 7 “Sinfonia Antartica” - V. Epilogue (excerpt) Symphony no.1 “A Sea Symphony” - I. A Song for all Sea, all Ships (excerpt) Symphony no 9 in E minor – IV. Andante tranquillo – poco animato (excerpt) Symphony no.5 in D major – III. Romanza (excerpt) Symphony no.5 in D major – I. Preludio Symphony no 6 in E minor – III. Scherzo (excerpt) Symphony no. 4 in F minor – I. Allegro (excerpt) Symphony no.1 ‘A Sea Symphony' - I. A Song for all Sea, all Ships (excerpt) Symphony no. 6 in E minor- IV. Epilogue Symphony no. 8 in D minor – IV. Toccata Presented by Donald Macleod Producer Sam Phillips For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rjd And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

All this month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at this much loved composer as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. He'll unpack Vaughan Williams' life story in fascinating detail over the course of four weeks and leading authorities on the composer will join him to share their new perspectives. They'll be exploring some of the overlooked aspects of his life and music, as well as the qualities that have left such an enduring imprint on British cultural life. This week Donald chronicles Vaughan Williams' life through the years 1914 to 1930. When War was declared, although he was 42 Vaughan Williams immediately joined up. He was accepted as an ambulance orderly with the rank of private. Throughout the War, wherever he was posted throughout Europe, he made music with anyone and everyone. He spent much of his spare time starting up a singing class, training a choir, getting together whoever was available, whenever they had a break in their duties. Even though he didn't “compose” during the war years, his own music did stir. He said of his 3rd Symphony, “a great deal of it incubated when I used to go up night after night with the ambulance wagon at Ecoivres and we went up a steep hill and there was a wonderful Corot-like landscape in the sunset – it's not really lambkins frisking at all, as most people take for granted.” Music Featured: A Cotswold Romance (The Men of Cotsall) Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge Symphony No 3 "Pastoral Symphony" - IV. Lento Motion and Stillness (4 Poems by Fredegond Shove) 'Four Nights' and 'The New Ghost' (4 Poems by Fredegond Shove) The Lark Ascending O Clap Your Hands Concerto Accademico Piano Suite in G Major (excerpt) Mass in G minor In Windsor Forest (Falstaff And The Fairies) The Pilgrim's Progress - Act IV Scene 2 “The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains' (excerpt) The Pilgrim's Progress - Act III Scene 1 “I buy the truth!” (excerpt) Riders to the Sea (Where is she?) Riders to the Sea (They are all gone now) Job – A Masque for Dancing (excerpt) Valliant for Truth Old King Cole Sancta Civitas Merciless Beauty, Three Rondels by Geoffrey Chaucer Flos Campi O vos omnes Job – A Masque for Dancing 3 Poems by Walt Whitman (Nocturne) 3 Choral Hymns Sir John in Love (excerpt) Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Rosie Boulton For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rjd And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

This month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the UK's most significant music figures, as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the UK's most significant musical figures. This month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at this much loved composer as part of Radio 3's 'Vaughan Williams Today' season, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth Donald will be telling Vaughan Williams' life story and exploring his music in fascinating detail over the course of four weeks and twenty programmes. Interleaved with Donald's in-depth narrative accounts, some of our leading authorities on Vaughan Williams will be joining him to share new perspectives. They'll be unpacking the overlooked and less well known aspects of a composer whose body of work and diverse interests have made such an enduring imprint on British cultural life. The first week of this landmark series will focus on Vaughan Williams' formative years, and his earliest works. It could be said that Vaughan Williams was pre-destined to be a leading figure in the musical life of Great Britain. He was born in 1872 with, in his own words, "a small silver spoon in his mouth" and his mother was part of the Wedgwood and Darwin dynasties. Charles Darwin was Vaughan Williams' great uncle. Raised, after his father's early death, in the matriarchal family home Leith Hill Place in Surrey, young Ralph was encouraged in the pursuit of knowledge from an early age. The values he was exposed to growing up are reflected in his social awareness later on. He wrote music for every kind of setting, from the concert hall to the village hall. We'll follow his development from his very first attempt at writing music, Robin's Nest, to the assurance of his London Symphony. Music Featured: The Lark Ascending (excerpt) A vision of aeroplanes (excerpt) The Robin's Nest Quintet in D major - I: Allegro moderato Bucolic Suite - II. Andante; IV. Finale Songs of Travel - 3. The Roadside Fire; 4. Youth and Love In the Fen Country Songs of Travel - 1. The vagabond Heroic elegy & Triumphal Epilogue - I: Andante sostenuto Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties - No 2; No 13; No 15 Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor Five mystical songs - The Call Toward the Unknown Region The Water Mill The last invocation A Sea Symphony - III: The Waves; I: A song for all Seas (excerpt) The Garden of Proserpine (excerpt) Five mystical songs - Love bade me welcome The Wasps - Overture On Wenlock Edge - I: On Wenlock Edge; III: Is my team ploughing? The sky above the roof L'amour de Moy Quant li louseignolz jolis String Quartet No 1 in G minor - I: Allegro moderato Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis - I: Largo sostenuto Phantasy Quintet - IV: Burlesca, alla moderato A London Symphony - Scherzo Linden Lea Serenade in A minor - IV: Romance Harnham Down On Wenlock Edge - Oh, when I was in love with you; Bredon Hill A Sea Symphony - II. On the Beach at Night Alone Presented by Donald Macleod Producer Johannah Smith For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016rjd And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z