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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: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Composer of the Week: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Episode 1

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Episode 1

Donald Macleod on Dvorak's career as an opera composer. Excerpts from Rusalka, Jacobin.

Exploring Dvorak's long and frustrating career as an opera composer, Donald Macleod presents music including excerpts from Rusalka, The Stubborn Lovers, Vanda and Jacobin.

AntonÃ­n DvoÅÃ¡k (1841 - 1904)
Donald Macleod begins a week of programmes, part of Radio 3's focus on opera, exploring DvoÅÃ¡k's long and frustrating career as a theatre composer, and discovers a wealth of great music rarely heard outside the composer's Bohemian homeland. (1/5).

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 Dvorak's long and frustrating career in opera

Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's long and frustrating career in opera and discovers a wealth of great music rarely heard outside the composer's Bohemian homeland

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