Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Migrated podcast image for: Composer Of The Week

Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

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

Composer of the Week: Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Composer of the Week: Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): Episode 3: Fauré: At the Salon

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Episode 3

Episode 3: Fauré: At the Salon

Fauré: At the Salon

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Fauré: At the Salon

Donald Macleod visits the Parisian salons to learn more about the life of Faure.

Donald Macleod explores how the world's greatest sewing machine entrepreneur came to have a defining influence on the life of Faure.

How did the world's greatest sewing machine entrepreneur come to have a defining influence on the life of Gabriel Fauré? Donald Macleod travels to Paris and gets rare access to one of the city's glorious musical salons to find out more from Jean-Michel Nectoux, leading authority on the composer's music.

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 charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure, with biographer Jessica Duchen

Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure. He's joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen, pianist Billy Eidi, and the leading authority on Faure's music, Jean-Michel Nectoux

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Composer of the Week

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Episode 3: Fauré: At the Salon

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3