Composer of the Week - William Alwyn
Donald Macleod explores the range of music Alwyn created during his long and prolific career, which embraced film scores as well concert hall works
Composer of the Week - William Alwyn - Episode 1
William Alwyn (1905-1985): 1/5. Donald Macleod explores the range of music Alwyn created during his long and prolific career, which embraced film scores and concert hall works.
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Composer of the Week - William Alwyn - Episode 2
William Alwyn (1905-1985): 2/5. With some of his best-known film scores, a recording of the Alwyn conducting his own harp concerto and his first venture into symphonic writing.
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Composer of the Week - William Alwyn - Episode 3
William Alwyn (1905-1985): 3/5. Donald Macleod introduces a work inspired by one of Alwyn's favourite artists plus a recording of Alwyn conducting his dramatic third symphony.
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Composer of the Week - William Alwyn - Episode 4
William Alwyn (1905-1985): 4/5. Donald Macleod looks at some of the chamber music Alwyn wrote during a stressful period in his life as well as a work dedicated to Sir Henry Wood.
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Composer of the Week - William Alwyn - Episode 5
William Alwyn (1905-1985): 5/5. Donald Macleod presents highlights from Alwyn's second opera and introduces a late orchestral work inspired by the English writer Sir Thomas Browne.
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