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Donald Macleod is joined by five guests to explore Beethoven’s wider world.
Beethoven’s lifetime was one of tumultuous change. In a week of programmes exploring this wider world around Beethoven, Donald Macleod is joined by five guests to discuss some of the various elements which combined to define the Spirit of the Age – the economy, the wider world of the arts, engineering, medicine and belief.
Guests:
Professor Nicholas Mathew - Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an expert on music and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and author of “Political Beethoven”
Ruth Padel – Poet, lifelong Soprano and author of “Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life”
Julian Allwood - Professor of Engineering and the Environment at Cambridge University
Professor Herwig Czech – Chair of the History of Medicine at MedUni Vienna
Dr Aakanksha Virkar Yates - Senior lecturer at the University of Brighton and expert in late nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Music Featured:
Violin Sonata 10 in G major, Op 96 (II. Adagio espressivo)
Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
For full tracklistings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Beethoven Unleashed: Spirit of the Age https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mq5x
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
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Donald Macleod is joined by five guests to explore Beethoven’s wider world.
Beethoven’s lifetime was one of tumultuous change. In a week of programmes exploring this wider world around Beethoven, Donald Macleod is joined by five guests to discuss some of the various elements which combined to define the Spirit of the Age – the economy, the wider world of the arts, engineering, medicine and belief.
Guests:
Professor Nicholas Mathew - Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an expert on music and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and author of “Political Beethoven”
Ruth Padel – Poet, lifelong Soprano and author of “Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life”
Julian Allwood - Professor of Engineering and the Environment at Cambridge University
Professor Herwig Czech – Chair of the History of Medicine at MedUni Vienna
Dr Aakanksha Virkar Yates - Senior lecturer at the University of Brighton and expert in late nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Music Featured:
Violin Sonata 10 in G major, Op 96 (II. Adagio espressivo)
Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
For full tracklistings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Beethoven Unleashed: Spirit of the Age https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mq5x
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

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