First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on the tangled love affair between Zemlinsky and Alma Schindler, who left the composer heartbroken when she abandoned him to marry Gustav Mahler. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod tells the tragic tale of Zemlinsky's last years spent in exile in America. Music includes Jagdstuck, Symphony Songs (excerpts), Psalm 13 and String Quartet No 4. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on Zemlinsky's opera Gorge the Dreamer, into which the devastated composer poured his unrequited love for his beloved Alma. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on Zemlinsky's most painful - and brutal - musical self-portrait: his opera The Dwarf, written in Prague in aftermath of the First World War. Show more
