Composer of the Week - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Modest Mussorgsky, a troubled, radical musical genius whose life was cruelly cut short at the age of 42
Composer of the Week - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Episode 1
Donald Macleod charts the course from apprenticeship to The Nursery, the song cycle that marks Mussorgsky's first musical maturity.
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Composer of the Week - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Episode 2
Donald Macleod explores the ultimate Russian opera - Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, a moving, disturbing work considered to be a great masterpiece.
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Composer of the Week - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Episode 3
Donald Macleod focuses on the year 1874, in which Mussorgsky produced probably his best-known work - Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Composer of the Week - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Episode 4
Donald Macleod explores Mussorgsky's final song cycle, Songs and Dances of Death, and his unfinished opera Khovanshchina.
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Composer of the Week - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Episode 5
Donald Macleod tells the unhappy story of Mussorgsky's final years - a period which should have been his middle age.
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