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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

Kate Molleson

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 5: Fraulein Klarinette

Johannes Brahms

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Episode 5: Fraulein Klarinette

Fraulein Klarinette

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Johannes Brahms, Fraulein Klarinette

Donald Macleod introduces three of Brahms's nostalgic late works for clarinet.

Donald Macleod introduces three of Brahms's nostalgic late works for clarinet, preceded by a sombre organ chorale.

1891 - nearly 60 years old now - old man Brahms, resplendent with a great white beard, is in love again. But this time the object of his affections isn't a woman, but a clarinet.

In this final programme in the seires Donald Macleod concludes by taking us through Brahms's last - and perhaps greatest - chamber works: his two clarinet sonatas and clarinet quintet.

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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