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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: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Composer of the Week: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Episode 5: It Is Enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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Episode 5: It Is Enough

It Is Enough

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), It Is Enough

Donald Macleod traces Bach's final years in Leipzig.

Donald Macleod traces Bach's final years from the success at the palace of King Frederick the Great to his failing health in Leipzig.

Donald Macleod traces Bach's final years. Bach enjoys great success at the palace of King Frederick the Great which results in his genius late work the Musical Offering. But Bach's eyesight is beginning to fail and cataract operations lead to infections and a stroke which eventually result in his death in the evening of the 28th July 1750.

Ricercar a 6 (Musical Offering, BWV 1079)
Musica Antiqua Köln 
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029
Pablo Casals (cello) / Paul Baumgartner (piano)

Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Munich Bach Orchestra
Karl Richter (conductor)


Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton.

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 traces J S Bach's early life

Donald Macleod traces J S Bach's early life from birth in Eisenach through becoming an orphan, family and schooling to early employment in Arnstadt and Mülhausen, and first marriage

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