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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: William Byrd (1543-1623)

Composer of the Week: William Byrd (1543-1623): Episode 4

William Byrd (1543-1623)

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, William Byrd (1543-1623), Episode 4

Donald Macleod explores how Byrd walked a tight-rope between Catholic and Protestant.

Donald Macleod explores how Byrd walked a precarious tight-rope, creating a DIY 'mass kit' for Catholics while pacifying the Protestant authorities.

Donald Macleod follows the composer as he walks the most precarious of tight-ropes, risking everything with the publication of a DIY 'mass kit' for Catholics, whilst doing everything he could to pacify the Protestant authorities.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Elizabethan composer William Byrd

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of William Byrd. He composed beautiful church music and inventive keyboard and vocal music, but was also a complex man who pushed religious mores to the limit

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