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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 2: Werther's Woes...and First Maturity

Johannes Brahms

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Episode 2: Werther's Woes...and First Maturity

Werther's Woes...and First Maturity

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Johannes Brahms, Werther's Woes...and First Maturity

Donald Macleod on Brahms's return to publishing new work after Schumann's suicide attempt.

Donald Macleod explores Brahms's renewed creativity after his six-year hiatus following the suicide attempt of his mentor Robert Schumann. Including a rare work for female choir.

After the shattering suicide attempt of his mentor Robert Schumann, Brahms didn't publish a new work for nearly six years - a wretched period in the career of music's new hottest property. Yet the flirty attentions of the composer's much-beloved Hamburg Ladies' Choir finally rejuvenated his creative juices in 1859, at the tender age of 26. In this second programme episode, Donald Macleod explores Brahms's renewed creative maturity, beginning with a rare work for 'his ladies' accompanied by harp and horns.

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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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