Donald Macleod
@DonaldMacleod01
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Presenter of Composer of the Week on BBCRadio3, & other stuff. Freelance voice: exhibition/gallery guide. Might-have-been furniture maker. Enthusiastic cook
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Not a day
@BBCRadio3
thinks worth celebrating, but I do: 20 yrs to the day since my 1st broadcast as sole presenter of COTW. 2 decades of immeasurable privilege & pleasure. Thanks to all composers living & dead who’ve made this the most joyous & fulfilling time
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Happy Birthday Beethoven!
This is the day of the 250th anniversary.
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As the day ends, I raise a glass to the great man. Thank you, Ludwig, for the fantastic privilege of having you as my companion through the year 2020.
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V difficult week: having lived with him as const companion for a year finally say goodbye & God rest to Beethoven. He’s left a huge chasm in my working life. Limitless thanks to production team
@BBCRadio3
Cardiff, esp. Chris Taylor master-architect, particularly final week
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your powerful responses to final episode of Beethoven Unleashed, the biography. The architect, Chris Taylor, will attest to the fact that it took me several takes to record the link into the 5th Symphony without breaking down
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It’s something of a mystery: completely unmusical family; rubbish or totally absent training in music at primary and secondary level. But then, around the age of 13, the discovery of the Third Programme. I owe it everything. Thank you BBC
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Macleod looking a right mug! Heartfelt thanks to my brilliant production team on
#COTW
#Beethoven
Unleashed
@BBCRadio3
for this memento of an unforgettable year
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That’s it. The final programme of the 125 to mark the 250th anniversary. Bereft. Auf wiedersehen, Ludwig.
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Ablative Absolute: The having been vaccinated man cycled happily home.
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It had to be done! Very best wishes to all loyal listeners to
#COTW
@BBCRadio3
- and to disloyal ones too! - for a Happy Christmas and for better things in 2023.
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Writing a week of Schubert. There are certain pieces of music, aren’t there, which no matter how often you hear them, pierce your very soul? The Adagio of the String Quintet has undone me, yet again…
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OTD 80 yrs ago Composer of the Week was first broadcast on BBC Home Service. It’s been my honour to present the programme on
@BBCRadio3
since 1999. These are some of the talented people who have helped me make it over past few yrs. Thank you all, producers past & present
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And this is my current fantastically talented team who have brought you Composer of the Week over the past few years. Two of them either programme for almost as long as me!
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Thanks beyond bounds to the miraculous teams
@Moorfields
, tomorrow I will have distance vision I haven’t had in 60 years. I am so humbled by their phenomenal expertise. Thank you.
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My resident robin hasn’t got the hang of social distancing. He hopped on to my shoe last week, and now bathing, only a metre away...
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I like to be on time and am invariably early. Sometimes absurdly early. But tonight I broke my own record, turning up exactly a month early for a concert.
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Forgive terrible moment of vaingloriousness. Today I interviewed Sir John Tomlinson for imminent Bernard Haitink celebration on
@BBCRadio3
. He said I have a great voice. What?!? He said that? It doesn’t get better than this.
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Many thanks for all the good wishes. The old git has a new pair of specs and all’s well with the world. Well, at least it’s in focus, close up
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It’s that glorious time in the Composer of the Week calendar!
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It’s a big day in an astonishingly beautiful part of Argyll, in blissful weather. I am a very lucky man!
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Congratulations team!
We are delighted to announce Beethoven Unleashed: Composer of the Week on
@BBCRadio3
has won
#vlvawards2020
for Best Music and Arts Radio Programme. Congratulations
@DonaldMacleod01
and the team behind this ambitious series. Find winners and nominees at
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From tomorrow,
#COTW
celebrates the 400th anniversary of the English composer William Byrd with glorious performances of his sublime music. I’ll be visiting some of the places he knew in the county of Essex, priest-holes and all….
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Up here for a very sad reason but the landscape lightens the heart
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Hugely disappointed that the prospect from the top (i.e. no view!) was as if inside a cloud, but hugely exhilarated that the old goat managed to get to stand on top of Suilven, so long admired from a distance
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Your wonderfully positive and supportive comments about
#COTW
and other
@BBCRadio3
programmes are immensely appreciated at this dark, solitary, isolated time. Hugely motivating and encouraging. More valuable than you can imagine. Thank you.
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This is a momentous day in my broadcasting career, welcoming on board the good ship
#COTW
on
@BBCRadio3
the gloriously imaginative, articulate, insightful and wide-ranging wordsmith
@KateMolleson
, opening up another dimension to this programme in its 80th year
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A presenter’s choices: seldom so graphically displayed as in this particular studio in Broadcasting House
@BBCRadio3
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The parting glass. A humble toast to the towering Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
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One of most moving messages ever abt COTW:”For past several years R3 has been companion & joy for my father, especially as he reaches out to end of his life, now listening to COTW peacefully & happily. Thank you for all work, all music. Clear you all love what you do, felt by us”
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Using the time to sort out piles of useless paper, I came across this ancient
@BBCRadio3
memo. They don’t make them like that any more...
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I think this is brilliantly witty and fun. I hope you do too!
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Sorry Elgar and Mr. Phoebus, but I now have an e-bike and it’s absolutely magic...especially the satnav which guides me through -always with three options- London’s by-ways and green spaces. Transformational.
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!!!!!
Inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. A 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy.
#music
#art
#photography
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Sometimes I have to take stock of just how lucky I am to record (mostly) as I did this afternoon, in the glamorous Studio 80A in Broadcasting House.
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McSweens & the obligatory complements. The hyper-observant will have spied an unusually bright hue to the neeps. A first for me (+carrot). The tincture is Laphroaig. Here’s to RB!
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This is the fabulous cake that we were presented with after last night’s amazing concert by
@BBCSingers
@HoddinottHall
. It tasted as good as it looks. You can hear the concert on 25th September. Yes indeed, Happy 80th Anniversary 🎂 Composer of the Week!
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For the avoidance of doubt, though I thought I had made myself clear: I am not retiring. I am delighted that
@KateMolleson
is going to be SHARING the pleasure of presenting
#COTW
.
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This is a first, on request, a kilt in Coigach....fortunately a midge-free evening, thus far...
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Profound thanks to everyone for the overwhelming messages of appreciation and, yes, love, for
#COTW
that you’ve posted in this 80th anniversary week. We’re all very touched and grateful that you’ve taken the trouble.
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Another perfect day in Paradise, with lunch outdoors in fabulous sunshine. I think that glass of Prosecco is winking at me. Piazza San Marco with practically no-one…
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It’s one of these terrible weeks when this sort of thing begins to come off the shelves and pile up on my desk…
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I have lived in a wierd, self-isolating bubble for more than 20 years, working on COTW. That now seems an advantage. My heart goes out to so many beloved musician friends, who, by definition, cannot live in that way, whose careers are being devastated
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A photograph to die for. Thank you for posting.
Holy Island, Northumberland, by Emma Rothera, Lindisfarne-based landscape and nature photographer.
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What an astounding
@E_N_O
‘s drive-in La Boheme proved to be. Technically towering achievement, making all that complexity work so magnificently in a car park, but artistically, from every point of view, a triumph. Funny, clever, moving. Manna from heaven for the opera-famished
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And this evening, a slight variation: Negroni Sbagliato
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Still reeling and sickened by the news about the cuts to
@LeedsLieder
imposed by the barbarians who are
@ace_national
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Neil,
#COTW
now needs 2 presenters, I am happy to say, not because I am being “forced out” but because I am getting old and have asked to do fewer weeks each year than I have for the past couple of decades. Couldn’t be more pleased that
@KateMolleson
is stepping into the breach.
@BBCRadio3
@KateMolleson
@DonaldMacleod01
Absolutely no idea why this programme now needs two presenters, considering how the BBC is looking to cut its Arts budget; is Donald Mcleod being forced-out in favour of the ubiquitous Kate Molleson?
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My bed, a couple of nights ago. Never in my life…..a total dream. Infinite thanks to my absurdly generous hosts.
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Oh gosh, Roger. I remember that meeting in your office so well. I thought it was going to be curtains for my broadcasting career and instead you offered me the best job in radio anywhere on the planet. I can never thank you enough. Still feel a total fraud.
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Honestly some of the piles of excremental musicological rubbish I have to wade my way through. Currently writing a week on Szymanowski, where I find some jerk writing of how a piece ends “by collapsing, like Petrushka, on a dry non-arpeggiated chord.” So illuminating
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Bravo to all those who took part in the flash mob Music for Peace in Trafalgar Square this afternoon.
#playforukraine
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Inaugural “at home” session of
@BBCRadio3
#R3COTW
with brilliant star guests
@iainburnside
&
@SYoungConductor
. Huge thanks to both. This is my studio for foreseeable future so some acoustic adjustments required. My stand-in is modelling Sennheiser headphones
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Very, very weird, unprecedented experience today. Sitting in barber’s chair having my hair cut at midday, while man who has cut my hair for years tuned radio to
@BBCRadio3
& had to listen to myself. Fortunately buzzing & snipping sounds almost completely drowned it out.
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Daughter’s boyfriend gives me incomprehensible gift of finger puppet...surely some kind of Freudian slip
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This is the heavenly week each year when I get paid to sit and listen to Bach all day long. Sometimes I feel this is the best job in the world. It could only be better if I could actually play Bach...
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This may be lore widely known, but not by me. The secret of unwilting tulips? The placing of a cuprous coin in the bottom of the vase, as evidenced here…
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It begins tomorrow:
#COTW
’s contribution to
@BBCRadio3
’s Beethoven Unleashed: 25 weeks, so 125 programmes, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. This first week, unlike anything we’ve done before, in conversation with
@marinalsop
&
@simon_schama
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Speeding on my way towards St. Andrews, where, tomorrow, the university will award me an honorary doctorate of music. Utterly amazing!
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In exceptional circumstances, on my birthday today I was sent the most exceptional musical greeting by musical neighbours. When I can figure out how to post it- it’s in an unfamiliar format- I will. Moved me to tears. Boundless thanks.
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My morning run. Stunning setting. Pathetic distance, but at least I made a small effort after a long gap.
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Had the pleasure of seeing Gainsborough’s portrait of J. C. Bach back on show, with Abel high on the wall above him, in the new salon hang at the joyfully re-opened
@NPGLondon
yesterday
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Still reeling from the extraordinary deluge of love and approbation last week. Thank you so much for making me feel so valued & appreciated. Totally overwhelmed. Never forget the team of fabulous producers who make me sound so much better than I am
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How are the not-at-all mighty fallen: gt-niece & gt-nephew given zip-wire for Xmas. After helping to set up I volunteer to do test run...
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At 12 today the final episode: programme 125 of 125 of Beethoven Unleashed
@BBCRadio3
. All the progs available as podcasts on a single page:
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Many congratulations to
@ErrollynWallen
on her appointment as Master of the King’s Music. So well deserved!
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I find I am now being followed by Elon Musk, who, surprisingly, has just 69 followers. I feel greatly honoured.
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Two stages of a delayed monument to Covid.I realised I had a whole bunch of tests which had expired. Don’t yet know how it will end up.
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Trespassing cats, you have been warned! Now the proud owner of a Floodinator....
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Favourite placard of the day, hand embroidered by an 80-year-old (not me)...
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Yet another occasion when this city -London- I have lived in for most of my life brought me up short. Have driven by hundreds of times but today, for 1st time, I walked through Bunhill Fields, burial place of John Bunyan, William Blake & Daniel Defoe
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I haven’t posted one of these in a long time, but when visiting a historic house, it has to be done
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A week in the company of the magnificent Aaron Copland just begun, which I hope you’ll enjoy.
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Sincere apologies. Just been pointed out that we played the wrong Te Deum in today’s programme: the 1928 one, not 1937. I think this is probably a consequence of not having physical CDs to work with any longer. Perhaps if we had, this horror might have been avoided.
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A bit of an amalgam here, or should that be hodge-podge? A highland shepherd’s pie: lamb & leftover haggis with a covering of mashed neeps & tatties & celeriac, with that heretical dash of carrot. It’s no’ half bad!
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I’m not going anywhere! You’re still stuck with rather a lot of me, I’m afraid…
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Stupendous performance of Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, not to be surpassed in my ancient lifetime
@edintfest
. Echt Berliner….
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Reason I’m in Paris? Lucky me: to interview the unique phenomon who is Kaija Saariaho, coming up soon, at long last, on
#COTW
@BBCRadio3
. Absolutely riveting, honest, compelling, revealing. I’ll let you know when the progs are going out
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He’s awfully good at this, don’t you think?
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A very generous neighbour delivered this fabulous bounty
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Crême de Cacao has been sourced, or at any rate, Cacao White Liqueur & the legendary “Maurice” cocktail has been prepared in honour of Ravel:
"Three measures of Bacardi rum, one measure of lemon juice, sugar- to taste - and a little crême de Cacao, - very strong but marvellous!”
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All set and ready to go! Back in
@queens_hall
for the first recital from
@edintfest
2022 on
@BBCRadio3
at 11
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Hooray and thanks for this return to a more reasonable position over
@BBCSingers
. Let’s hope reason prevails.
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What an astonishing place to stay for the night. Phenomenal, absurdly belated first visit to glorious Durham
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I was applauding too much to take a photo of the curtain calls but absolutely bowled over by the Barrie Kosky production of Das Rheingold
@RoyalOperaHouse
. What a magnificent triumph and how splendid to see the entire orchestra on stage to take a bow at the end.
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