Donald Macleod explores Handel's beginnings, his skillful ability to impress and control his employers, and his tendency to recycle existing music. Show more
Donald Macleod and Suzanne Aspden discuss how Handel thrived in Britain thanks to his political acumen and his well-received music. Show more
Donald Macleod and Suzanne Aspden discuss Handel's place in the London opera scene of the early 18th century, a world fraught with feuding both on and off the stage. Show more
With Sarah Walker: this week a collection of autumnal music, Italian Cantatas by Handel and recordings by the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Show more
Composer of the Week
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Episode 5: The Stage Works - The Labour of a Lifetime
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod discusses Vaughan Williams's life and work during the Second World War, including his treatment of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Show more
Francesco Piemontesi in a piano recital at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival. Handel: Suite in B flat, HWV434. Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel. Plus Bach and Liszt. Show more
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With Petroc Trelawny. Cellist Natalie Clein performs in the studio and soprano Joan Rodgers joins pianist Nicholas Walker to discuss future concerts celebrating music by Balakirev. Show more
From the Barbican, London, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Hindemith: Concert Music for strings and brass. Debussy: Fantaisie. Show more
Journalist Agnes Poirier reports on big autumn events in Paris, including a Monet exhibition, French cartoons in the Bibliotheque Forney and an interesting new bistro. Show more
From the Barbican, London, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte. Mussorgsky, orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. Show more
Author Jacqueline Wilson launches Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival of ideas with a lecture from the Sage Gateshead entitled Beyond the Fairytale: Happiness in the Real World. Show more
Composer of the Week
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Episode 5: The Stage Works - The Labour of a Lifetime
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Donald Macleod discusses Vaughan Williams's life and work during the Second World War, including his treatment of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Show more
Chinese writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo pays tribute to all she has learned from Chekhov in his deeply humane depiction of peasant life in a bitter winter landscape. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy presents sounds from around the globe. Featuring American slide guitarist Bob Brozman and Irish musicians John McSherry (Uillean pipes) and Donal O'Connor (fiddle). Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a concert by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra performing Weber, Mozart and Mendelssohn. Joining them is clarinettist Martin Fröst. Show more
