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Composer of the Week

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Episode 2

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod focuses on how Grainger established himself as a pianist, his first successes as a composer and his move to New York. Show more

Composer of the Week

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Episode 1

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's hothouse upbringing in Melbourne, his years of musical study in Frankfurt, and his move to London. Show more

Composer of the Week

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Episode 3

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's adoption of US citizenship, his enlistment in the army as a bandsman, his mother Rose's suicide, and marriage to Ella Viola Strom. Show more

Composer of the Week

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Episode 4

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's founding a museum of himself, inventing 'blue-eyed English', and his reputation as 'the jogging pianist'. Show more

Composer of the Week

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Episode 5

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod focuses on how Grainger's boyhood love of Rudyard Kipling culminated in his Jungle Book Cycle. Plus Grainger's 'greatest hits'. Show more