First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod considers Richard Strauss’s move to the Weimar Court Opera, and the ideas and philosophical discussions that led to Also sprach Zarathustra. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores Richard Strauss’s rather fraught early years as third conductor at the Munich Opera, with music including his orchestral tone poem Tod und Verklarung. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod assesses the enormous demands of Richard Strauss’s appointment to the Berlin Court Opera, with music including the vast canvas of his tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod charts Richard Strauss’s early years, with music including his First Symphony, which was completed in his last year in school, and a Concert Overture. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod charts Strauss’s early years, with music from his Second Symphony and Burleske, a piano work that was initially described by its first performer as unpianistic. Show more
