Episodes from Composer of the Week broadcast in 2009

1/5. Donald Macleod defines some of the characteristics of the Opera-Comique genre.

5/5. Donald Macleod focuses on two of Moskowski's most celebrated piano pieces.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores how Moszkowski often saw the funny side of life.

3/5. Donald Macleod surveys the geography of Moszkowski's life.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Moszkowski's demanding Violin Concerto in C.

1/5. Donald Macleod investigates just how famous Moszkowski was.

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

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

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

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

Donald Macleod introduces the composers of Restoration England. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Satie's momentous last decade.

4/5. Donald Macleod presents two works considered Satie's greatest, plus a rare miniature.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Satie's famously eccentric character.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Satie's 'mystic' period of the 1890s.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Satie's early life and his famous set of three Gymnopedies.

5/5. Donald Macleod presents some of Nielsen's works from his final years.

4/5. Donald Macleod presents works from when Nielsen's career and personal life were in crisis.

3/5. WIth Nielsen's comic opera about masked balls and his final string quartet.

2/5. Donald Macleod introduces two of Nielsen's works inspired by paintings.

1/5. Focusing on the recognition for both Nielsen's first symphony and his first choral work.

5/5. Donald Macleod tells the unhappy story of Mussorgsky's final years.

4/5. Exploring Mussorgsky's song cycle, Songs and Dances of Death, and the opera Khovanshchina.

3/5. Focusing on the year 1874, when Mussorgsky produced Pictures at an Exhibition.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores the ultimate Russian opera - Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

1/5. Charting the course from Mussorgsky's apprenticeship to the song cycle The Nursery.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores how Weill established himself as a successful Broadway composer.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores how Weill's voluntary exile from Germany affected his music.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores how Kurt Weill responded to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

2/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Weill's move to Berlin, where he collaborated with Brecht.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Kurt Weill's formative years. Including Mack the Knife.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Strauss' role as the leading German composer of the Nazi era.

4/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Strauss' music at the time of the First World War.

3/5. Donald Macleod on Strauss' everyday life, including his favourite pastime - a card game.

2/5. Donald Macleod examines events in Richard Strauss' early career.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Strauss' final days, framed by recordings of his early works.

5/5. Donald Macleod discovers the sad end of Johann Christian Bach.

4/5. Donald Macleod dicusses JC Bach's relationship with his famous pupil - Mozart.

3/5. Donald Macleod discusses JC Bach's friendship with German composer Carl Friedrich Abel.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores JC Bach's activities in 18th-century London.

1/5. With Donald Macleod. JC Bach rejects a typically Bach career as a provincial organist.

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

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

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

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

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

5/5. Donald Macleod explores John Tavener's most recent music, including Lalishri.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores how John Tavener begain to broaden his musical horizons.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Tavener's working relationship with the nun Mother Thekla.

2/5. Donald Macleod on some of John Tavener's earliest works, influenced by religious orthodoxy

1/5. Donald Macleod focuses on John Tavener's first major musical success.

5/5. Donald Macleod reflects on New York's devotion to Villa-Lobos and his music.

4/5. Donald Macleod discusses the importance to Villa-Lobos of the city of Sao Paulo.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Villa-Lobos' fascination with the Amazon.

2/5. Donald Macleod considers Villa-Lobos' relationship with Paris.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the impact of Rio de Janeiro on Villa-Lobos' life and work.

5/5. Donald Macleod on the contradictory aspects of Bernard Herrmann's complex personality.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores Bernard Herrmann's collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock.

3/5. Donald Macleod on how Britain's writers, culture and landscape affected Bernard Herrmann.

2/5. Donald Macleod on Bernard Herrmann's career as a CBS radio and TV composer and conductor.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the early years of Bernard Herrmann's career.

5/5. Donald Macleod follows the last years of Salieri's life.

4/5. Donald Macleod on how Salieri began to look more to teaching and composing sacred music.

3/5. Donald Macleod traces Salieri's successful career in the world of opera.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Salieri's work as composer for the Imperial Chamber in Vienna.

1/5. Donald Macleod charts Salieri's formative years, focusing on the loss of his parents.

5/5. Donald Macleod charts Myaskovsky's final, tragic years.

4/5. Donald Macleod charts the beginning of persecution of Myaskovsky.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores the impact on Myaskovsky's music of the First World War.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Myaskovsky's time at the St Petersburg Conservatory.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Myaskovsky's childhood, marked by the religious mania of his aunt.

5/5. Exploring how King James' musicians responded to the final years of his reign. (R)

4/5. Donald Macleod explores the music of King James I's era, focusing on his entertainments. (R)

3/5. Donald Macleod focuses on the court musicians of James' eldest son son, Prince Henry. (R)

2/5. Donald Macleod focuses on how James' musicians responded to failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. (R)

1/5. Donald Macleod focuses on the aftermath of the James' imprisonment. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Orff's final works and personal correspondence.

4/5. Donald Macleod on Orff's behaviour during the Second World War and immediately afterwards.

3/5. Donald Macleod discusses Orff's inspirations, which included fairy tales and ancient myths

2/5. Donald Macleod on how Orff's life and work were shaped by the start of the Third Reich.

1/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Orff's early career in 1920s Munich.

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

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

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

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

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

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Kodaly's final years, spent in communist Hungary. (R)

4/5. Donald Macleod explores Kodaly's efforts to enhance Hungary's cultural identity. (R)

3/5. Donald Macleod examines Kodaly's increasing international success. (R)

2/5. A Red Apple Smiles (Two Folk Songs from Zobor); Cello Sonata, Op 8; Psalmus Hungaricus. (R)

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Kodaly's early life, including his youth spent in the countryside. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod looks at Ravel in the context of his contemporaries. (R)

4/5. Including Daphnis et Chloe (excerpts); La valse; Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. (R)

3/5. Donald Macleod explores the importance for Ravel of the poets he read and knew. (R)

2/5. Entre cloches; L'heure espagnole (excerpt); Gaspard de la nuit; Bolero. (R)

1/5. Including Vocalise; Chanson espagnole; Ma mere l'oye; Rapsodie espagnole. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod concludes his exploration of the music of Jonathan Harvey.

4/5. Donald Macleod and composer Jonathan Harvey focus on the theme of nature in Harvey's music

3/5. The music of Jonathan Harvey including One Evening..., How Could the Soul Not Take Flight.

2/5. Including Homage to Cage, Nataraja, Flight-Elegy and The Riot.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the music of Jonathan Harvey with the composer himself.

5/5. Donald Macleod examines the music published in Vivaldi's own lifetime. (R)

4/5. Exploring Vivaldi's friendship with German violinist Johann Georg Pisendel. (R)

3/5. Exploring Orlando Furioso, considered by many to be Vivaldi's operatic masterpiece. (R)

2/5. An examination of the claim that Vivaldi merely rewrote the same concerto many times over. (R)

1/5. A look at Vivaldi's musical catalogue, focusing on the 20th century Vivaldi renaissance. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod focuses on the songs Schubert wrote during his final months. (R)

4/5. An exploration of Schubert's final years, concentrating on two valedictory works. (R)

3/5. A look at Schubert's productive final years, assessing the importance of Beethoven to him. (R)

2/5. An exploration of Schubert's final years, focusing on his 'underrated' last mass. (R)

1/5. Exploring the 'Indian summer' of Schubert's final years, with a focus on his last symphony (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod describes Stravinsky's emotional return to his Russian homeland.

4/5. Donald Macleod examines Stravinsky's attempts to keep up with the musical avant-garde.

3/5. Donald Macleod traces Stravinsky's relationship with conductor Robert Craft.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Stravinsky's early years in America.

1/5. Donald Macleod looks at the years prior to Stravinsky's leaving Europe for America.

5/5. Donald Macleod visits the mansion which Louis XVI gave to his wife Marie-Antoinette.

4/5. Donald Macleod visits the location favoured by Louis XV's wife for her musical soirees.

3/5. Donald Macleod visits the Grande Ecurie, which played host to spectacular theatrical shows

2/5. Donald Macleod explores music performed at the Palace of Versailles under Louis XIV and XV

1/5. Donald Macleod presents music including Morin, Lully and Charpentier.

5/5. With three great works: the Polonaise Fantaisie, the Cello Sonata, and the Barcarolle. (R)

4/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Chopin's close relationships - with George Sand and his sister. (R)

3/5. Donald Macleod focuses on late works by Chopin including the Heroique and the 4th Scherzo. (R)

2/5. Donald Macleod focuses on the final years, with the 3rd Ballade and the F minor Fantaisie. (R)

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Chopin's highly creative final years, spent at his lover's retreat (R)

Haydn's Armida deals in love and sorcery, and Orfeo ed Euridice revisits the Orpheus myth. (R)

Haydn changed course in L'isola disabitata; La fedelta premiata has a fine operatic finale (R)

Haydn often chose awful libretti. La vera costanza is typical, yet its music is inspired. (R)

Haydn wrote two comic operas in the 1770s: L'infedelta delusa and L'incontro improvviso. (R)

Some of Haydn's best music was written for the stage, but his operas are less well-known. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod talks to John McCabe about his future as a composer and a performer.

4/5. Donald Macleod talks to John McCabe about the challenges of composing music for others.

3/5. Donald Macleod presents McCabe talking about his great love for Haydn's music.

2/5. Donald Macleod presents McCabe performing and talking about his love of variation form.

1/5. Donald Macleod presents John McCabe discussing his early years and his work with the Halle

5/5. Donald Macleod presents Sibelius' last arrangements, plus the finale from his 5th Symphony

4/5. With Donald Macleod. Late works for organ, plus the only recording of Sibelius conducting.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores the full, tragic saga of Sibelius' never-completed Symphony No 8.

2/5. Donald Macleod presents an extended performance of Sibelius' music for The Tempest.

1/5. Donald Macleod outlines the background behind Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Bach's eventful final years at Weimar's ducal court.

4/5. Donald Macleod describes how Bach experimented with some foreign musical ingredients.

3/5. Donald Macleod describes how Bach reached new heights as a chamber musician in Weimar.

2/5. How Bach's strategy for promotion unfolded as he travelled to Halle.

1/5. Donald Macleod on Bach's arrival in Weimar, and how he coped with his 'lowly' position.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores the final years of the Mendelssohns' lives.

4/5. Focusing on Felix's appointment as Leipzig Gewandhaus director and Fanny's belated success

3/5. Donald Macleod contrasts Felix's growing popularity with Fanny's adaptation to marriage.

2/5. Focusing on the launch of Mendelssohn's career and the different path that his sister took

1/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn's early years.

5/5. Donald Macleod considers Frescobaldi's influence on later generations.

4/5. Donald Macleod and Christopher Stembridge focus on Frescobaldi's music for organ.

3/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Frescobaldi's vocal and instrumental work.

2/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Frescobaldi's keyboard music.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Frescobaldi's early years in Ferrara.

5/5. A visit to the rivers Severn, Lugg and Wye, by which Elgar dreamt up his First Symphony. (R)

4/5. Elgar explored his melancholy in the eerie landscape of Longdon Marsh, west of Tewkesbury. (R)

3/5. Exploring how Elgar's hobby of cycling affected his music, including the Enigma Variations (R)

2/5. Elgar's relationship with Worcester, from his village birthplace to the city's cathedral. (R)

1/5. The influence of the Malvern Hills on Elgar, with a visit to his grave and a former home. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Handel's oratorios, focusing on his late burst of masterpieces.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores Handel's oratorios, focusing on warlike works for troubled times.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Handel's oratorios, focusing on Saul, Belshazzar and Messiah.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores the accidental conception of the English oratorio.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Handel's oratorios, focusing on his work in Rome as a young man.

5/5. Donald Macleod gets to grips with the complex character of Astor Piazzolla.

4/5. Donald Macleod follows Astor Piazzolla's musical interests in the 1970s.

3/5. Donald Macleod surveys Piazzolla's intensely creative period during the 1960s.

2/5. Donald Macleod evaluates the impact on his career of Piazzolla's studies in Paris.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Piazzolla's early life, focusing on his discovery of the bandoneon

5/5. Donald Macleod reveals how Corelli's best friend scrabbled to cash in following his death. (R)

4/5. Donald Macleod explores how Corelli was taken on by one of Rome's cultural celebrities. (R)

3/5. Donald Macleod discovers how a musical row disturbed Corelli's famous equilibrium. (R)

2/5. Donald Macleod follows Corelli to Rome, where he begins to make his mark as a rising star. (R)

1/5. Donald Macleod discusses the basis on which Corelli's reputation was built. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney survey Gliere's influence and legacy.

4/5. Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney examine Gliere's position within Soviet Russia.

3/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Gliere's short-lived career as a conductor.

2/5. Donald Macleod is joined by Gerard McBurney to chart Gliere's early teaching career.

1/5. Donald Macleod traces Gliere's formative years, beginning with his early life in Kiev.

5/5. Donald Macleod looks at Donizetti's appointment as court composer to the Austrian emperor.

4/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Donizetti's non-operatic works, including the Requiem.

3/5. Donald Macleod describes how Donizetti took Paris by storm.

2/5. Donald Macleod on Donizetti's problems with censorship, which drove him to leave Paris.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Donizetti's Neapolitan years.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Ligeti's vocal and choral music, including Lux Aeterna and Requiem

4/5. Donald Macleod explores Ligeti's dramatic works, including excerpts from Le Grand Macabre.

3/5. Donald Macleod on Ligeti's orchestral music, including Lontano and San Francisco Polyphony

2/5. Donald explores Ligeti's chamber music, including an excerpt from his String Quartet No 2.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Ligeti's keyboard works, including Continuum for harpsichord.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and the unfinished Requiem.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores how, despite serious money trouble, Mozart wrote two great works.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores the end of the Viennese public's love affair with Mozart's music.

2/5. Donald Macleod looks at the visit of Mozart's father to his apartment in Vienna.

1/5. Donald Macleod looks at Mozart's arrival in Vienna, as he began establishing himself.

5/5. Donald Macleod introduces the setting of Psalm 80 written for Roussel's 60th birthday.

4/5. Donald Macleod introduces a group of Bacchanalian songs by Roussel.

3/5. Donald Macleod introduces the work which established Roussel's international reputation.

2/5. Donald Macleod presents a Roussel stage work set in the insect world.

1/5. Including Roussel's first major success, which evokes the sights and sounds of India.

5/5. Donald Macleod introduces music from Bartok's final years after his emigration to America.

4/5. Donald Macleod introduces Bartok's celebrated Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste.

3/5. Donald Macleod presents a Bartok suite celebrating 50 years of a unified Budapest.

2/5. Donald Macleod presents two Bartok ballets that had contrasting public receptions.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores music inspired by Bartok's failed love affair with Stefi Geyer.

5/5. Donald Macleod looks at Beethoven's last two years, which brought his late string quartets (R)

4/5. With movements from the iconic Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony. (R)

3/5. Donald Macleod talks to Charles Rosen, who tells the story behind the Diabelli Variations. (R)

2/5. With a seven-bar fugue for two violins, plus his last and possibly greatest piano sonata. (R)

1/5. Featuring two groundbreaking sonatas, the first ever song-cycle and two tiny canons. (R)

5/5. Donald Macleod focuses on Rachmaninov after the Russian Revolution.

4/5. Donald Macleod looks at Rachmaninov's friendship with Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin.

3/5. Donald Macleod on Rachmaninov decamping to Dresden to escape the Russian Revolution.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov's three-year creative block.

1/5. Donald Macleod focuses on the positive reception for Rachmaninov's first orchestral piece.

5/5. Donald Macleod charts Mendelssohn's final years and his remarkable legacy.

4/5. Donald Macleod on Mendelssohn's interest in Bach's music and revisions of his own work.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores how Mendelssohn took inspiration for his music from women and wine

2/5. Donald Macleod on the impact Mendelssohn's closeness to his family had on his compositions

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Mendelssohn's formative years leading up to his Octet in E flat.

5/5. Donald Macleod looks at Haydn's late compositions, including The Creation.

4/5. Donald Macleod tells the story of Haydn's hugely successful trip to England.

3/5. Donald Macleod looks at Haydn's life and work at the Esterhazy summer residence.

2/5. Donald Macleod looks at Haydn's relationship with the aristocratic Esterhazy family.

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the compositions and early life of Joseph Haydn.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores a decade of enduring oratorios that would seal Handel's reputation

4/5. Donald Macleod explores Handel's work in opera in London in the 1720s and 30s.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Handel's move to England.

2/5. Donald Macleod follows Handel concluding his 'grand tour' of Italy and starting a new post

1/5. Donald Macleod asks how how far we can trust John Mainwaring's portrayal of Handel.

5/5. Donald Macleod and Bruce Wood explore Purcell's theatrical interests in his later years.

4/5. Donald Macleod considers how Purcell adapted to working for two very different monarchs.

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Purcell's early theatrical ventures with Bruce Wood.

2/5. Donald Macleod follows Purcell's life into adulthood and marriage. With Bruce Wood.

1/5. Donald Macleod and Purcell expert Bruce Wood explore the events of Purcell's early years.

5/5. Donald Macleod and John Eliot Gardiner focus on Berlioz's gargantuan opera Les Troyens.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores the poetic vein of death and melancholy in Berlioz's output.