Episodes from Composer of the Week broadcast in 2007

1/5. Donald Macleod follows Puccini's path to fame and fortune on the operatic stage.

5/5. Coates flirts with politics and royalty, and starts his film career at age 68.

4/5. As war is declared, Coates's stirring marches came into their own.

3/5. As he moves into several houses in and around London, Coates falls in love with the city.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Coates's By the Sleepy Lagoon, used today in Desert Island Discs.

1/5. Coates's student years proved to be startlingly memorable.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores 1891 which, for Tchaikovsky, saw the premiere of Sleeping Beauty.

4/5. Donald Macleod considers how the 1880s began for Tchaikovsky, with his 1812 Overture.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores 1878, which was a happier year for Tchaikovsky.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores 1877, the year of Tchaikovsky's disastrous marriage.

1/5. Donald Macleod looks at Tchaikovsky's music written and performed in 1876.

5/5. Donald Macleod reflects on Webern's intense love of his homeland Austria.

3/5. Donald Macleod looks at Webern's encounter with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg.

2/5. Donald Macleod reveals how tragedy blighted Webern's early career.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores some myths about the spirit behind Webern's music.

5/5. Mozart's friends came in all guises. Donald Macleod investigates.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Mozart's unrequited passion for the soprano Aloysia Weber.

1/5. Donald Macleod discovers the friends, family and fellow musicians who inspired Mozart.

5/5. After a trip home, both composers turned to the symphony.

4/5. The two composers go through a period of mixed fortunes in Hollywood.

3/5. Alfred Hitchcock, Errol Flynn and the theremin all feature in the composers' film careers.

2/5. Financial desolation led the two composers to find work in Beverly Hills.

1/5. Donald Macleod considers the early years of Rozsa and Korngold.

5/5. Donald Macleod devotes his final programme to Rameau's final opera Les Boreades.

4/5. Donald Macleod introduces a complete performance of Rameau's acte de ballet Pygmalion.

3/5. With Rameau's music composed for the 1745 wedding of the Dauphin to Maria-Theresa of Spain

2/5. Rameau is best known for his operas, yet he didn't write his first until he was nearly 50.

1/5. Donald Macleod considers Rameau's first 50 years, which are largely shrouded in mystery.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Ireland's last works, including Five 16th Century Poems.

4/5. Including two contrasting musical celebrations of Ireland's beloved Sussex Downs.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Ireland's relationships with the women in his life.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores how Ireland combined Anglo-Catholicism and paganism in his music.

1/5. John Ireland's early talent gained him entry to London's Royal College of Music at 14.

Donald Macleod on those who contributed to London's theatre scene in the 17th century.

Donald Macleod explores the increasing importance of music away from the court.

Donald Macleod surveys the requirements placed on composers to the royal family.

Donald Macleod surveys the composers who emerged as choristers at the Chapel Royal.

Donald Macleod introduces the composers of Restoration England.

5/5. Grieg's debut in Britain as a concert pianist was held up by the applause that greeted him

4/5. The encounters with British people that shaped Grieg's life, including Frederick Delius.

3/5. Exploring what made the Norwegian identity in Grieg's music attract audiences in Britain.

2/5. Investigating the Scottish ancestry to be found in the Norwegian composer's family tree.

1/5. The music heard at the first of two memorial concerts held in London upon Grieg's death.

5/5. War and politics prevented Martinu returning to Czechoslovakia, and affected his music.

4/5. Martinu arrived in New York in 1941 and set about establishing his reputation in America.

3/5. The effect the German occupation of Martinu's birthland and his home, Paris, had on him.

2/5. Paris offered many literary possibilities, and Martinu honed them into theatrical projects

1/5. Martinu acknowledged that his odd birthplace formed a significant influence on his music.

5/5. Bantock was knighted in 1930. Including Violin Sonata; Processional; A Hebridean Symphony.

4/5. Bantock's amazing zest for life: his physical energy extended beyond academic walls.

3/5. Featuring a new recording of Bantock's epic choral and orchestral masterpiece Omar Khayyam

1/5. His father wanted him to join the Indian Civil Service, but Bantock became a composer.

5/5. Rachmaninov lived in America and Europe but kept in touch with Russia's artistic spirit. (R)

4/5. The fall of Old Russia in the October Revolution of 1917 forced Rachmaninov to emigrate. (R)

3/5. Like other Russian composers, Rachmaninov drew on the music of the Russian Orthodox Church (R)

2/5. In 1892 Rachmaninov began his career as a composer, but his First Symphony was savaged. (R)

1/5. Born to a musical family, Rachmaninov won a scholarship to the St Petersburg Conservatory. (R)

5/5. Joplin and ragtime were almost forgotten after his death but had a revival in the 1970s.

4/5. Joplin's final decade in New York saw him struggling for respect in a city of opportunity.

3/5. How America's critics and musical establishment responded in mixed fashion to ragtime.

2/5. Joplin biographer Susan Curtis explains how the US economic crisis of 1893 helped ragtime.

1/5. The roots of the music Joplin helped to define, with ragtime pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen.

5/5. Gluck's operatic career included his sequel to Iphigenie en Aulide and a French farce.

4/5. Gluck's decided in 1774 to apply his radical aesthetics to the traditions of French opera.

3/5. Gluck's manifesto for opera was to 'restrict music to its true function of serving poetry'

2/5. Donald Macleod traces the young Gluck's journeys across Europe before he settled in Vienna

1/5. Gluck stood aloof from any tradition, declaring he wrote 'music belonging to all nations'.

5/5. A selection of Sibelius's final works, including the finest evocations of his homeland.

4/5. In his early 40s, Sibelius's health problems had a dramatic effect on his state of mind.

3/5. Donald Macleod introduces one of the most popular concertos for the violin, Valse Triste.

2/5. Sibelius's fascination for the Finnish epic The Kalevala was the impetus behind many works

1/5. By the age of 26, Sibelius was established as a standard-bearer of Finnish culture.