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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: Lord Berners

Composer of the Week: Lord Berners: Episode 2: Berners and Diaghilev

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Lord Berners

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Episode 2: Berners and Diaghilev

Berners and Diaghilev

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Lord Berners, Berners and Diaghilev

With works commissioned by Diaghilev - Berners's only opera and his fairytale ballet suite

Donald Macleod introduces works commissioned by Diaghilev - Berners's only opera and the suite from his fairytale ballet.

In spite of his ultra-establishment position as a peer of the realm, Lord Berners didn't connect at all with the old guard in the artistic world. He found he had more in common with the wildly eccentric Sitwells who, like him, were rebelling against a conventional Victorian upbringing. Berners' idiosyncratic ways didn't deter some of the greatest artistic talents of the time from a desire to work with him. Donald Macleod introduces two works commissioned by the renowned impresario Serge Diaghilev - Berners's first and only opera and the suite from his fairytale ballet.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the eccentric British composer Lord Berners

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the colourful and eccentric British composer Lord Berners. While he behaved as a very English gentleman, his compositions had a distinctive European slant

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