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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: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Composer of the Week: Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Episode 1: Family and an Early Love

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Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Episode 1

Episode 1: Family and an Early Love

Family and an Early Love

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Family and an Early Love

Donald Macleod explores the impact that Elgar's family and an early love had on his music.

Donald Macleod explores the impact that Elgar's family and Helen Weaver - an early love interest - had on his life and work.

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Edward Elgar through the lens of his muses - his love interests, and some of his greatest friends. In today's episode, Donald explores the impact that Elgar's family, his family friends and Helen Weaver - an early love interest - had on his life and his work

Reminiscences
Marat Bisengaliev (violin)
Benjamin Frith (piano)

Wand of Youth - Suite No. 2
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Pastoral (Caractacus, Scene 3)
Judith Howarth (soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor), 
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Polka Helcia
Innovation Chamber Ensemble
Barry Collett (conductor)

Sabbath at Sea (Sea Pictures)
Alice Coote (mezzo)
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

Une Idylle, Op. 4 No. 1 (for E.E. Inverness), solo piano arrangement
Ashley Wass (piano)

Producer: Sam Phillips.

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 Edward Elgar through the lens of his muses

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Edward Elgar through the lens of his muses - his family, his love interests, and some of his greatest friends

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