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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: Five Under 35 - Contemporary British Women Composers

Composer of the Week: Five Under 35 - Contemporary British Women Composers: Episode 2: Dobrinka Tabakova

Dobrinka Tabakova

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Episode 2: Dobrinka Tabakova

Five Under 35 - Contemporary British Women Composers

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Five Under 35 - Contemporary British Women Composers, Dobrinka Tabakova

Donald Macleod speaks to composer Dobrinka Tabakova.

Donald Macleod speaks to composer Dobrinka Tabakova, who was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and moved to the UK at the age of 11.

Continuing BBC Radio 3's celebration of female composers for International Women's Day, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work? As they discuss the issue of women in music from a contemporary perspective. Featuring music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Dobrinka Tabakova, Hannah Kendall, Anna Clyne and Charlotte Bray. Join the conversation online by tweeting @bbcradio3 with the hashtag #womensday.

In today's episode, Donald interviews the British-Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova (1980-), whose music shimmers with "glowing tonal harmonies and grand sweeping gestures", according to the leading magazine The Strad. Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Dobrinka Tabakova moved to the UK at the age of 11. Her lushly tonal, often highly Romantic music has been praised by figures as eclectic as John Adams, Iannis Xenakis and Alexander Goehr - and questions what it really means to be 'radical' in 2015.

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 speaks to five new British musical voices about their work

Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work and the issue of women in music from a contemporary perspective

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