Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Migrated podcast image for: Composer Of The Week

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: Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Composer of the Week: Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Episode 2: An Extension of My Home Country

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Episode 2

Episode 2: An Extension of My Home Country

An Extension of My Home Country

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), An Extension of My Home Country

Donald Macleod focuses on Falla's move to Paris in 1907.

Donald Macleod focuses on Falla's move to Paris, made with the promise of a concert tour that ultimately never materialised.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. In 1907 Falla moved to Paris, with a promise of a concert tour that in the end never materialised. He managed to gather together enough pupils to be able to afford stay on, and lived there for the next seven years. He said he found in Paris "what became an extension of my home country." It was in France that Falla's opera La Vida Breve first found success, after which it seems that he was intending to settle permanently in Paris. He hoped his parents and his sister would be able to join him: "not in Paris but a healthy quiet village, cheerful and picturesque, within an hour of the Gare Saint-Lazare." However, very soon afterwards he found Paris mobilising for WW1 and, in common with thousands of other foreigners, left the city, and he returned to neutral Spain.

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 Spanish composer Manuel de Falla

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Composer of the Week

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Episode 2: An Extension of My Home Country

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3