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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

Composer of the Week: Leos Janacek (1854-1928): Episode 3

Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

Episode 3

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Donald Macleod explores Janacek's Sinfonietta - and two rarely heard curios.

Donald Macleod explores Janacek's most celebrated and spectacular orchestral work: the Sinfonietta, inspired by military bands in Pisek, home town of the composer's muse Kamila.

Donald Macleod presents Leos Janacek's most celebrated - and spectacular - orchestral work: the Sinfonietta, inspired by military bands in Pisek, home town of the composer's muse Kamila. He also explores Janacek's trip to the UK in 1926, and dips into two of the composer's least-heard (and most peculiar) pieces; first, there's a handful of Nursery Rhymes for instrumental ensemble - full of surreal images of vegetables getting married and grandmothers in bushes - with the programme ending with the unique Capriccio for piano left hand, brass and flute.

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Donald Macleod explores the brilliant, tempestuous last five years of the life of Janacek.

Donald Macleod explores the brilliant, tempestuous last five years of the life of Leos Janacek, a composer who has been described as classical music's 'anti-prodigy'

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