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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: English Pastoralists

Composer of the Week: English Pastoralists: Episode 2: First Time in Evening Dress

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Episode 2: First Time in Evening Dress

English Pastoralists

First Time in Evening Dress

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Donald Macleod considers the part that folk played in the formation of a 'national music'.

Exploring the work of the English Pastoralists, Donald Macleod explores how folk music inspired these composers and played a part in the formation of a 'national music'.

Donald Macleod focuses on the work of the English Pastoralist composers. Folk music provided a fertile inspiration to many composers in the first decades of the twentieth century and in this programme Donald Macleod explores the part that this folk music played in the formation of a 'national music'.

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 lives and works of the English Pastoralist composers

Donald Macleod explores the lives and works of the English Pastoralist composers. A feeling for landscape and place was important to them, and they often responded to places they knew and loved

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