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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: Johannes Brahms

Composer of the Week: Johannes Brahms: Episode 1: To the Great Joachim

Johannes Brahms

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Episode 1: To the Great Joachim

To the Great Joachim

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Johannes Brahms, To the Great Joachim

Donald Macleod explores Brahms's annus mirabilis of 1853-4.

Donald Macleod explores Brahms's annus mirabilis of 1853-4, which saw the creation of a rare, boozy birthday tribute to his new friend, the great violinist Joseph Joachim.

In the first of five programmes Donald Macleod begins with Brahms's own annus mirabilis - 12 extraordinary months from 1853-4 when his career went stratosphericm, but which ended with the tragic suicide attempt of his great friend and mentor Robert Schumann. We begin with perhaps the most unusual work in Brahms's entire output: the rare Hymn To The Veneration Of The Great Joachim! - a boozy musical joke written for the composer's new best buddy.

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.

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Donald Macleod explores Brahms's body of chamber and instrumental works

Donald Macleod explores Brahms's body of chamber and instrumental works, capturing the composer in five distinct, eclectic and turbulent periods of his life

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