Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Thomas Arne, one of British music's most lively characters. He is remembered mainly for Rule Britannia and his setting of Shakespeare's Where the Bee Sucks
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BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.
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Folge vom 09.10.2009JC BachDonald Macleod introduces music and stories from the life of Johann Christian Bach, these days best known as the younget son of JS Bach, but in his day, the most famous Bach of all. Following JC Bach as he veers away from a typically Bach career as a provincial organist, and heads instead to Italy, and opera. Covering his move to London, his friendships with Carl Abel, Thomas Gainsborough and the eight-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and his decline.