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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: Strauss 150

Composer of the Week: Strauss 150: Episode 3: The Perfect Librettist

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Episode 3: The Perfect Librettist

Strauss 150

The Perfect Librettist

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Strauss 150, The Perfect Librettist

Donald Macleod introduces music from the most important collaboration of Strauss's career.

Donald Macleod introduces two operas that emerged from the most fruitful partnership of Strauss's operatic career, with the Austrian poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

In the years leading up to the First World War, Strauss was increasingly in demand across Europe, both in and out of the orchestra pit. He now embarked on the most fruitful collaboration of his operatic career with the Austrian poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Donald Macleod introduces music from two of the operas to come out of that unlikely partnership.

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 life and work of Richard Strauss

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