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The Spirit of Schubert

Composer of the Week: Schubert Part 2 of 2

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of to...

Schubert's Vienna:18 Last Days

Sean Rafferty is taken to the ‘Sterbewohnung’, the house where Schubert spent his...

Schubert's Vienna: 17 Syphilis

Sean Rafferty sees grisly evidence of Schubert’s syphilitic condition with Dr of the...

Schubert Labs - Episode 8

In the eight and final episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the Is...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 8 The UnRomantic death of the mercurial Schubert

Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...

Schubert's Vienna: 16 Lichtenthal Church

Sean Rafferty is guided round the Lichtenthal Church, scene of Schubert’s baptism by...

Schubert Labs - Episode 7

In the seventh episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question:...

Schubert's Vienna: 15 Hofburg and school

Sean Rafferty follows in Schubert’s schoolboy footsteps as Nora Tunkel takes him to...

Composer of the Week Schubert 1 of 2

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of to...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 7 Schubert and Performance

During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.

Schubert's Vienna: 14 Dancing

Sean Rafferty is taken for a turn around the ballroom by period dance specialist Pia...

Schubert Labs - Episode 6

Tom Service tries to answer today's question: Schubert; classical or romantic? Was he...

Schubert's Vienna: 13 Theatres

Sean Rafferty talks to Thomas Trabitsch, director of the Austrian Theatre Museum and...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 6 Schubert and Snow

Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...

Schubert's Vienna: 12 Biedermeier

Sean Rafferty delves below the elegant surface of Biedermeier Vienna to find what with...

Schubert Labs - Episode 5

Tom Service presents the fifth episiode of The Schubert Lab and investigates what was...

Schubert's Vienna: 11 Schubert's Clothes

Sean Rafferty rifles through the contents of Schubert's wardrobe with Regina Karner of...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 5 Schubert and Scotland

Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...

Schubert's Vienna: 10 Wallersee and Salzburg

Sean Rafferty travels to Upper-Austria and Salzburg to follow in the footsteps of one...

Schubert's Vienna: 9 Prater and Zoo

Sean Rafferty meets Prater Collection curator Ursula Storch, zoo historian Gerhard and...

Schubert Labs - Episode 4

Tom Service introduces the fourth episode of The Schubert Lab and tries to answer the...

Schubert Labs - Episode 3

Tom Service tries to answer today's question: What was the magic of Vienna and how did...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 4 When Schubert Met Beethoven

The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...

Schubert's Vienna: 8 Newspapers

Sean Rafferty drops in at the offices of the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna's oldest and talks...

Schubert's Vienna: 7 Housing

Sean Rafferty hears about the layout of Schubert's Vienna from Sándor Békési of the...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 3

Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.

Schubert Labs - Episode 2

Tom Service presents the second episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to find out...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 2

Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...

The Schubert Essay - Episode 1

The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.

Claiming Schubert

As part of Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert season, Sir John Tusa explores the many and in...

Schubert's Vienna: 6 Coffee

Sean Rafferty visits fifth generation coffee roaster Thomas Meinl at Julius Meinl to...

Schubert's Vienna: 5 Coffee Houses and Smoking

Sean Rafferty visits Maximillan Platzer, proprietor of Café Wiemer and Eva Abi-Fadel...

Schubert Labs - Episode 1

Tom Service presents the first episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to get to of...

Schubert's Vienna: 4 Secret Police

Researcher Karin Schneider and Karl Vocelka, Head of History at Vienna University tell...

Schubert's Vienna: 3 Congress of Vienna

Sean Rafferty learns about the Congress of Vienna from Karl Vocelka, Head of History...

Schubert's Vienna: 2 Drink

Sean Rafferty finds out about drinking, Schubert-style, from restaurant manager Udo...

Schubert's Vienna: 1 Food

Sean Rafferty asks Udo Kaubek, Manager of Julius Meinl am Graben restaurant, about the...