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Anton Bruckner The Corpse Chaser with Edith Bowman
Anton Bruckner was a composer fascinated with death, religion and teenage girls. Read more
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Monsters of Music with Tom Allen
Anton Bruckner was a composer fascinated with death, religion and teenage girls.
Fifty Shades of Percy Grainger with Lou Sanders
Percy Grainger had a fetish for whips, blood-stained shirts and folk melodies.
Dame Ethel Smyth The Wrecker with Laufey
Ethel Smyth was a trailblazing composer, suffragette and no stranger to ionate affairs
Alma Mahler The Heartbreaker with Arlene Phillips
A composer, heartbreaker, socialite and antisemite. Who was the real Alma Mahler?
Facing The Music
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Battle for Joy
Dominic West exposes Beethoven’s emotional pain in search of joyful, life-affirming music.
Dmitri Shostakovich: Staring Down the Terror
Michael Sheen uncovers Shostakovich’s fear and defiance in Stalin’s terrifying USSR.
Florence Price: Power and Pride
Nina Sosanya confronts Price’s battle with prejudice to reveal her true musical identity.
Antonín Dvořák: Heartache and Hope
Adeel Akhtar unravels Dvořák’s grief and musical rebirth after the deaths of his children.
Sergei Rachmaninov: Fear of Failure
Kit Harington tackles Rachmaninov’s paralysing writer’s block to reveal a masterpiece.
Jean Sibelius: Rage Against the Machine
Toby Jones reveals how Sibelius’s anger and destruction freed him from musical torment.
Ethel Smyth: Resilience and Resistance
Maxine Peake embraces Smyth’s rule-breaking as the composer takes on the patriarchy.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lust for Life
Andrew Lincoln revels in Mozart’s new-found love as he and his music, break free.
Duke Ellington: In Control
Don Warrington watches Ellington risk it all to save his name and musical legacy.
Joseph Haydn: Letting Go of Loneliness
David Suchet plunges into Haydn’s isolation and how it was shattered in war-torn Vienna.
Introducing Facing The Music
Exposing the emotional turmoil behind legendary composers and their captivating music.
