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Composer of the Week

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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50 episodes

Mar 14, 2025•1:41:19

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

Mar 28, 2025•1:11:39

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Apr 11, 2025•1:10:10

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Apr 18, 2025•1:08:08

Mozart's Last Years

May 2, 2025•1:03:34

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)

May 9, 2025•1:11:06

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

May 16, 2025•1:09:46

Max Bruch (1839-1920)

May 23, 2025•1:04:14

Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

May 30, 2025•56:53

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Jun 12, 2025•53:51

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)

Jun 20, 2025•1:11:55

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)

Jun 28, 2025•1:20:51

Gavin Bryars

Jul 4, 2025•1:02:05

Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Jul 11, 2025•1:02:13

Grace Williams (1906-1977)

Jul 25, 2025•1:12:29

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Aug 1, 2025•1:19:02

Arvo Pärt

Aug 8, 2025•1:11:45

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Aug 22, 2025•1:09:45

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Sep 12, 2025•1:05:54

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Sep 26, 2025•1:06:53

Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

Oct 10, 2025•1:08:41

Eleanor Alberga

Oct 17, 2025•1:06:41

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Oct 31, 2025•54:40

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)

Nov 8, 2025•54:57

Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

Nov 14, 2025•1:05:28

Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929)

Nov 21, 2025•1:01:23

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Nov 28, 2025•1:45:35

Max Roach (1924-2007)

Dec 5, 2025•1:45:09

John Rutter (born 1945)

Dec 19, 2025•1:06:34

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Dec 26, 2025•1:02:23

A Georgian Christmas

Jan 13, 2026•1:13:47

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Jan 30, 2026•1:12:02

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791-1844)

Feb 6, 2026•1:36:01

Erik Chisholm (1904-1965)

Feb 17, 2026•1:07:24

Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)

Feb 27, 2026•55:46

Amy Beach (1867-1944)

Mar 6, 2026•1:05:19

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Mar 13, 2026•1:12:12

New Zealand Composers

Mar 20, 2026•1:06:04

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Mar 27, 2026•1:01:28

Thomas Adès

Apr 24, 2026•1:12:09

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

May 1, 2026•1:11:59

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

May 8, 2026•1:10:23

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

May 15, 2026•1:26:43

Florence Price (1887-1953)

May 29, 2026•1:20:48

Miles Davis 100

Jun 12, 2026•1:08:07

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Jun 19, 2026•1:22:36

Anonymous

Jul 3, 2026•1:19:29

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Jul 10, 2026•1:33:30

Fela Sowande and the Art Music of Nigeria

Jul 24, 2026•1:15:50

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Aug 7, 2026•1:04:50

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