Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach
Donald Macleod looks at five decades of Bach's music, revealing a picture of the composer's evolving style
Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach - Early Mastery
Donald explores Bach's output during the 1710s, much of which the composer spent at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar.
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Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach - One Fearsome Cantor - Bach in the 1720s
Donald Macleod looks at what was probably Bach's most fertile decade - the 1720s - one which marked the beginning of his 27-year spell as Cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig.
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Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach - The Apprentice - Bach in the 1700s
Donald Macleod concentrates on some of Bach's earliest surviving works, including his first published cantata, Gott ist mein Konig.
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Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach - The Last Decade: Bach in the 1740s
Donald Macleod concludes his survey of Bach's music with excerpts from three of what are considered to be the musical masterpieces of the composer's final decade.
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Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach - Years of Consolidation - Bach in the 1730s
Donald Macleod examines Bach's work during the 1730s, when on top of his writing cantatas for Leipzig's four main churches, he was director of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig.
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