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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: Thea Musgrave (1928-): Experimenting

Thea Musgrave (1928-)

Experimenting

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Thea Musgrave (1928-), Experimenting

Donald Macleod and Thea Musgrave discuss her early electronic techniques and spatial ideas

Donald Macleod and Thea Musgrave discuss her early experiments with electronic techniques and her long friendships with musicians

All this week, Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as the Scottish born composer celebrates her 90th birthday. 

In this programme she discusses her early experiments with electronic techniques as well as her long friendships with musicians such as oboist Nicholas Daniel, horn player Barry Tuckwell and conductor Colin Davis. She explains how she developed a form of music that she describes as dramatic abstract, where she experiments with spatial configurations of players and acoustic possibilities.


Niobe for oboe and pre-recorded tape
Nicholas Daniel, oboe

Concerto for horn and orchestra
Barry Tuckwell, horn
Scottish National Orchestra
Thea Musgrave, conductor

Wild Winter I
Red Byrd
Fretwork

Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton for BBC Wales

Composer of the Week: Thea Musgrave (1928-)

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Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as she marks her 90th birthday.

Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as the Scottish composer marks her 90th birthday.

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