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Focuses on composer Arnold Schoenberg in the years 1906-1923, during which he braved bitter poverty and isolation - the fate of a revolutionary in a conservative world. His concerts resulted in riots,...
Introduces Elizabeth Maconchy’s music, explaining how she approaches the task of composition and how her ideas are formulated. Leading musicians and the orchestra of Wells Cathedral School play excerpts...
Film about the life and work of socialist composer Alan Bush, whose career was dedicated to trying to "connect musical activity with real happenings in the world." This aim is exemplified both by the...
Combines excerpts from key works with an account of Tippet’s development as a composer. Includes excerpts from his symphonies, the concertos for orchestra and for double string orchestra, the Piano Sonata...
Musicologist and composer David Raksin discusses the career of his friend, the eminent film composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975). Many film clips illustrate his themes, and Raksin demonstrates some of...
Thurston Dart talks to Peter Orr about composing music for Shakespearean drama. Recorded at the British Council, London. Date unknown but likely to have been recorded in the 1960s.
Pierre Boulez was one of the most significant figures in classical music of the late 20th century. Tom Service celebrates the French composer who died in January 2016:
Estonian Arvo Pärt is widely regarded as one of today’s most original creators of music. Largely self-taught, he is remote from the mainstream of the contemporary avant-garde. Much of his music is bound...
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