Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
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https://t.co/1sRgNdfYh3 #LeokadiyaKashperova was, for many decades, recorded in mainstream #Musical #history as a footnote: the #piano teacher of Igor #stravinsky. Her full story as a musician+#composer has finally now been unearthed, supported by #BBCRadio3 #Forgotten #Women #composers project with the Arts+Humanities Research Council,+the Boosey and Hawkes. In the year of her 150th anniversary, #DonaldMacleod is joined by researcher Graham Griffiths to rediscover this once renowned #musician.
#LeokadiyaKashperova #Musical #history #piano #stravinsky #composer #BBCRadio3 #forgotten #women #composers #DonaldMacleod #musician
Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
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https://t.co/xvM3i32ai4 To mark the 200th #anniversary of #CesarFranck's birth,
#BBCRadio3's #DonaldMacleod
spends the week delving a bit deeper into this enigmatic, complex, retiring and unassuming character who became a leading figure of #French #musical #life#episodes at #BBCSounds.
#composer of the #week #bbc #expertise #classical #music #pleasure #expert #writing and #presentation with #musical #extracts #arts #history #culture for all. Licence fee funded, free to hear.
#anniversary #cesarfranck #BBCRadio3 #DonaldMacleod #french #Musical #Life #BBCSounds #composer #week #bbc #expertise #classical #music #pleasure #expert #writing #presentation #extracts #arts #history #culture
Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
153 followers · 481 posts · Server mastodonapp.ukhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fnvq A night at the #opera - tickets <44p per household! #BBCRadio3’s #DonaldMacleod presents #Handel's #magical opera from the #RoyalOperaHouse, Covent Garden, starring Lisette Oropesa as sorceress #alcina and Emily D'Angelo as bewitched Ruggiero. 18.30 on #BBCRadio3 and then at #BBCSounds.
#opera #BBCRadio3 #DonaldMacleod #Handel #magical #RoyalOperaHouse #alcina #BBCSounds
Laura Phillips · @lauraphillips
104 followers · 250 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk
All this week on #bbc #radio 3+ #BBCSounds #DonaldMacleod examines #Liszt’s role in #Chopin’s first meetings with novelist #GeorgeSand, and explores how their relationship almost led to the #composer being killed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fdyy
#music #culture for all. Free to hear. Funded by <44p a day per #UK household.
#bbc #radio #BBCSounds #DonaldMacleod #liszt #chopin #georgesand #composer #music #culture #uk