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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: Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957)

Composer of the Week: Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957): Episode 5

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Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957)

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Sibelius - The Rest is Silence? (The Years 1925-1957), Episode 5

Donald Macleod presents Sibelius' last arrangements, plus the finale from his 5th Symphony

Donald Macleod presents Sibelius's late arrangements, plus a vintage performance of the finale from his great Fifth Symphony, recorded by Malcolm Sargent in 1958.

Donald Macleod explores the mythology cloaking the last decades of Sibelius' life.

He introduces a series of curious arrangements the composer made in his ninth and tenth decades, including a hymn for girl scouts. Plus a work that brings Sibelius' life and career full circle - his late revision of part of Kullervo, originally written as a young hopeful, some 60 years earlier.

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Donald Macleod explores the mythology surrounding the last decades of Sibelius's life

Donald Macleod explores the myths and mysteries behind Sibelius's last, so-called 'silent' decades. With extracts from the composer's diary as well as a variety of rare pieces

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