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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: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Composer of the Week: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Episode 2: Revisiting the Past

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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Episode 2: Revisiting the Past

Revisiting the Past

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Revisiting the Past

Donald Macleod concentrates a period of Bach's compositional introspection.

Donald Macleod concentrates a period of Bach's compositional introspection, when he re-imagined works for different forces.

In his last years, JS Bach undertook an intensified review of his works, sometimes re-imagining them for different forces. In the process he would transform them. With the Mass in B Minor, Bach revisited some of his older works, but expanded upon them hugely, creating a compendium of different styles of music. Donald Macleod looks at JS Bach's music during a period of compositional introspection.

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 explores the music of Bach's final years in Leipzig

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