Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure. He's joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen, pianist Billy Eidi, and the leading authority on Faure's music, Jean-Michel Nectoux
Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Episode 1
Donald Macleod is joined by writer Jessica Duchen to chart the complex web of personalities in Faure's early life, including a formative bond with Camille Saint-Saens.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Episode 2
Donald Macleod follows Faure's footsteps into the ever-controversial Parisian church of La Madeleine, inspiration for what would become his greatest masterpiece, the Requiem.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Episode 3
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): 3/5. Donald Macleod explores how the world's greatest sewing machine entrepreneur came to have a defining influence on the life of Faure.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Episode 4
Donald Macleod explores how Faure finally attained the job he'd always sought - the directorship of the Paris Conservatoire. There, he masterminded the institution's reinvention.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Episode 5
Donald Macleod is joined by Jessica Duchen to find out how Faure found himself amongst the practitioners of palmistry and ventriloquism at a village fete in the Vale of Glamorgan.
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