John Shea continues BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert with a selection of songs on the themes of flowers, nature, water, fishing and the night. Plus the opera Der Graf von Gleichen which Schubert worked on during the last two years of his life. He left sketches for 26 numbers all together, but in 1997 the Styriarte festival commissioned Richard Dunser to complete the work as we'll hear tonight.
Alfred Brendel introduces his own performance of the Sonata for piano (D.958) in C minor
Florian Boesch, Cornelia Horak, Letizia Scherrer, KornmarktChor Bregenz, Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, Christoph Eberle (Conductor)
Helen Donath (soprano), Josef Protschka (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Marie McLaughlin (soprano), The New Company, Graham Johnson (piano)
With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer.
Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.
Schubert found such musical mileage in the concept of 'The Wanderer' that he reworked music from the song of that name within his 'Wanderer' Fantasy for piano. Images of alienation, rejection, despair and death often go hand in hand with the portrayal of rudderless peregrination. Today we ask what was Schubert looking for, and what did he find?
Continuing Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert season, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.
Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Gerard Souzay.
1030 Sarah's guest today is philosopher Roger Scruton has chosen songs in classic recordings by great singers of the 20th century, and a beautiful Notturno for Piano Trio written towards the end of Schubert's life, and which sounds like a trail run for the later and better known slow movement of the String Quintet.
Today's Lieder advocate introduces some of their favourite Schubert recordings.
5/8 The years 1822-3 witnessed some unsettling changes in Schubert's circumstances. His old circle of friends was breaking up and a serious illness threatened to ruin all his aspirations. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Continuing BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, the Lunchtime Schubertiad tourbus heads to Kent and the unique setting of the Musical Museum at Finchcocks. Here, the renowned fortepianist Melvyn Tan is joined by the outstanding Spanish mezzo-soprano and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Clara Mouriz, to perform four songs together. Melvyn Tan will also be showcasing two of the remarkable instruments in the Finchcocks collection, specially refurbished for the museum's 40th Anniversary year. He performs Schubert's six 'Moment musicaux' as well as the Sonata in E flat major.
The Spirit of Schubert continues in Afternoon on 3, and its the turn of the 5th and 6th Symphonies, in versions recommended by conductor Roy Goodman. The 5th Symphony is performed by the Classical Band, conducted by Bruno Weil, and the 6th by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Claudio Abbado. In between these we'll pick up the pieces in the Schubert Lab with Tom Service as he surveys some Schubert "fragments".
Schubert - Symphony no. 5 (D.485) in B flat major
Schubert - Symphony no. 6 (D.589) in C major
A Passiontide Devotion from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, led by the Revd Alan Gyle and based around the movements of Schubert's 'Stabat Mater' in F minor D.383 which he composed in 1816 to F.G.Klopstock's paraphrase into German of the Latin sequence. It wasn't performed publicly until 5 years after Schubert's death. With the BBC Singers directed by David Hill. Organist Richard Pearce.
Continuing BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert Suzy Klein presents the In Tune Schubert Salon, featuring live music from the New Zealand String Quartet performing 'Death and the Maiden' and our trusted guide Graham Johnson playing lieder performed by the tenors Ian Bostridge and Ben Johnson, soprano Geraldine McGreevy and baritone Benedict Nelson.
As part of The Spirit of Schubert Tom Service presents the Schubert Lab featuring special guests and discussion about the composer as the 'Wanderer'.
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As part of The Spirit of Schubert, Clemency Burton-Hill presents three masterworks written between 1822 and 1826 and performed at the Schwetzingen and Schwarzenburg Schubertiade by some of today's leading Schubertians.
Paul Lewis brings his profound technical and musical mastery to Schubert's four movement piano fantasy of 1822, whose slow movement variations are based on the song Der Wanderer. He then joins tenor, Mark Padmore in the Angelika Kauffmann Concert Hall, Schwartzenburg for Schubert's first song cycle, to which he gave the title: The lovely maid of the mill, a song cycle to poems by Wilhelm Müller. Composed by the twenty six year old Schubert in 1823, just a few years after Muller published his poems, the cycle charts the joys and travails of the miller who is unlucky in love and after much travail, drowns himself in the brook to which he finds himself inexorably drawn. The Takacs Quartet then perform one of the great quartets of Schubert's maturity, a work which, though written in 1826, was, like so many othes, only publshed many years after the composer's death.
As part of Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents late night Schubert requests and dedications.
Write to her with your Schubert requests and dedications. Email: schubert@bbc.co.uk
Live in the studio across the week she'll also feature exclusive Schubert Remixed sessions, with contemporary artists from across the genres reinterpreting some of Schubert's great songs live in the studio.
The Schubert Essay: Samuel Beckett listened again and again to 'Winterreise', 'shivering and shivering' on the journey; children love the snow, its malleability, its purity, its temporariness; the Chinese love winter and snow and Spring is not far behind. Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and life, with Schubert as the point of departure and return.
THURSDAY 29 MARCH 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01dtwm5)
The Spirit of Schubert
Schubert the Wanderer
John Shea continues BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert including a selection of Schubert's songs on the themes of religion, night and death. Plus his opera Die Zauberharfe - his tenth opera, but only the second and final to be performed in his life time.
12.31AM
Die Zauberharfe - melodrama in 3 acts(D.644)
Thomas Moser (tenor), József Németh (bass),
Orchestra Filarmonica e Coro del Teatro Nazionale de Szeged, Tito Gotti (conductor)
Actors -
Christine Ostermayer - Melinde,
Walter Schwickerath - Arnulf,
Roswitha Dierk - Ida,
Kurt Schossmann - Sutur,
Otto Edelmann - Folko/Rynoo/Alf
2.10AM
Sonett (Apollo, lebet noch dein hold Verlangen) (D.628)
Sonett (Allein, nachdenklich) (D.629)
Sonett (Nunmehr, da Himmel, Erde schweigt) (D.630)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
2.22AM
Songs: Hardenberg settings...
Hymne 1 (Wenige wissen das Geheimnis der Liebe) (D.659)
Hymne 2 (Wenn ich ihn nur habe) (D.660)
Hymne 3 (Wenn alle untreu werden) (D.661)
Hymne 4 (Ich sag es jedem, dass er lebt) (D.662)
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano)
2.37AM
Die Zwillingsbruder (D.647)
Aga Mikolaj (soprano), Oliver Aigner (bass), Andreas Karasiak (tenor), Stephan Genz (baritone), Heiko Michael Schulz (bass), Chorus Musicus Koln, Das Neue Orchester, Christoph Spering (conductor)
3.13AM
5 Minuets with 6 trios for string quartet (D.89)
Auryn Quartett
3.39 AM
Songs on the theme of Death...
Schiffers Scheidelied (D.910)
Gerald Finley (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano)
An den Tod (D.518)
Elly Ameling (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
Der Konig in Thule (D.367)
Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Mignon II (So lasst mich scheinen) (D.727)
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
3.56AM
D.871 Das Zugenglocklein (D.871)
Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo) Hartmut Holl (piano)
D.059 Verklarung (D.59)
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
D.753 Heliopolis 1 (Im kalten, rauhen Norden) (D.753)
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
D.754 Heliopolis 2 (Fels auf Felsen hingewalzet) (Im Hochgebirge) (D.754)
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Gerard Wyss (piano)
D.801 Dithyrambe (D.801)
Gerard Souzay (baritone) Dalton Baldwin (piano)
4.12AM
Mass no. 4 (D.452) in C major
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Lucia Popp (soprano), Adolf Dallapozza (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Wolfganag Sawallisch (conductor)
4.39AM
Totengrabers Heimwehe (D.842)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
4.46AM
Divertissement a l'hongroise for piano duet (D.818)in G minor
Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz (piano)
5.18AM
Songs on the theme of the night
Die Sommernacht (D.289)
Sarah Walker (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
Die Fruhen Graber (D.290)
Sarah Walker (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
Stimme der Liebe (Abendgewolke schweben hell) (D.418) [2nd setting]
Sarah Walker (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
Abendlied der Furstin (D.495)
Sarah Walker (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)
Wiegenlied (Schlafe, schlafe, holder susser Knabe) (D.498)
Elly Ameling (soprano) Dalton Baldwin (piano)
5.32AM
30 Menuette mit Trios für Klavier 2/2 (D.041)
Michael Endres (piano)
5.52AM
Eine Altschottische Ballade (D.923)
Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
5.58AM
Der Zufriedene (D.320)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Vergebliche Liebe (D.177)
Martyn Hill (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
Der Liebende (D.207)
Martyn Hill (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
Stimme der Liebe (Abendgewolke schweben hell) (D.187) [1st setting]
Elly Ameling (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Der Weiberfreund (D.271)
Martyn Hill (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
Furcht der Geliebten (An Cidli) (D.285)
Marcus Ullman (tenor) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano)
Selma und Selmar (D.286)
Simone Nold (soprano), Marcus Ullmann (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano)
Vaterlandslied (D.287)
Simone Nold (soprano), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano)
Die Sternenwelten (D.307)
Elizabeth Connell (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Die Macht der Liebe (D.308)
Patricia Rozario (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Sehnsucht (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) (D.310)
Elly Ameling (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Die Sterbende (D.186)
Elly Ameling (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Die Schlacht (D.387)
North German Radio Chorus, Werner Hagen (conductor)[a German Radio recording]
Goldner Schein - canon for 3 voices (D.357)
Gudrun Greindl-Rosner, Adelheid Schiller, Renate Freyer [members of the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus]
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01dtwm7)
The Spirit of Schubert
Classical or Romantic?
Schubert - Classical or Romantic?
With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer.
Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.
From his earliest days Schubert, like Mozart and Beethoven, aimed to excel across the whole of instrumental and vocal composition and that put his roots firmly in classical soil. Inspiration from outside music soon coloured his thinking though, pushing him towards a richer harmonic and textural music - ahead of the true Romantics. Today we ask, what was Schubert at heart - Classical or Romantic?
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01dtwm9)
Essential Schubert
Classical or Romantic?
presented by Sarah Walker
10.00
Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Christa Ludwig
1030 Sarah's guest today is arts executive Sir John Tusa, who has chosen recordings which remind him of Schubert's music that he heard at particularly memorable concerts: two singers in song recitals, Peter Pears (accompanied by Benjamin Britten) and the recently-retired Thomas Quasthoff, and the pianist Andras Schiff.
11.00
Schubert
Piano Sonata in C, D840 (Reliquie)
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
11.30 Today's Lieder advocate introduces some of their favourite Schubert recordings.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01dtwmc)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Classical or Romantic?
6/8 Schubert's home town was also the adopted home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Donald Macleod explores how living in the shadow of these Viennese masters affected Schubert's life and music.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01dtwmf)
Lunchtime Schubertiad
Champs Hill: Michael Collins and Friends
Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert continues live from Champs Hill in Sussex. Sean Rafferty introduces a performance of one of Schubert's best loved masterpieces, the Octet in F, D803.
In 1824 Count Ferdinand Troyer, a talented amateur clarinettist proposed to Schubert that he write a follow-up to Beethoven's immensely successful Septet. Schubert duly obliged, adding a second violin to the line-up and creating a work that was quintessentially his own.
Acclaimed Clarinettist Michael Collins is joined by the young Doric Quartet, as well as horn player Richard Watkins, bassoonist Robin O'Neill and Double Bassist Lynda Houghton to play this enduringly popular work.
Schubert: Octet in F, D803
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Doric Quartet
Richard Watkins (horn)
Robin O'Neill (bassoon)
Lynda Houghton (double bass).
THU 14:10 Afternoon Concert (b01dtwmh)
The Spirit of Schubert
Die Verschworenen, Der Vierjahrige Posten
The Spirit of Schubert. Penny Gore presents 2 dramatic works by Schubert: First, Die Verschworenen (D.787) a one act Singspiel which translates roughly as "Domestic Warfare". It is an adaption of the bawdy comedy "Lysistrata" by the fifth century BC Athenian Aristophanes, transposed to Medieval Germany, where the knights, on their way home from war, encounter a very personal, but effective type of "industrial action" by their neglected womenfolk.
Secondly, another one act Singspiel "Der Vierjahrige Posten" (The 4 year posting) at just half an hour, it relates the tale of an army deserter and his wife, a local girl. 4 years on and the army returns to the village and the crafty deserter manages to convince his superiors that he has been on sentry duty for the whole 4 years - awaiting further orders. Suitably impressed by his dedication to duty, the soldier is rewarded by being given his release papers.
2.10 Die Verschworenen - Singspiel in 1 act (D.787)
Kurt Moll ................Count Heribert von Ludenstein (a baronet)
Edda Moser ............Countess Ludmila
Elke Schary.............Isella (Ludmila's maid)
Adolf Dallapozza ......Udolin (Heribert's page)
Martin Finke.............Astolf von Reisenberg (a knight)
Gabriele Fuchs ........Helene (Astolf's wife)
Gudrun Greindl-Rosner .....Luitgarde
Sunhild Rauschkolb .........Camilla
Chorus of Bavarian Radio
Munich Radio Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
.....
3pm
Schubert Lab
4pm
Der Vierjahrige Posten - singspiel in 1 act (D.190)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau .......Walther (A village judge)
Helen Donath .......................Katchen (his daughter)
Peter Schreier ......................Duval (her husband and former soldier)
Friedrich Len ........................a peasant
Willi Brokmeier .....................The Captain
Fritz Strassner .....................The General (speaking role)
Chorus of Bavarian Radio
Munich Radio Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01dtwmk)
In Tune Schubert Salon
Sophie Bevan, Anna Leese, Anna Huntley, Rupert Charlesworth
Suzy Klein presents the In Tune Schubert Salon including live performance from leading Schubert interpreters. Pianist Graham Johnson is our guest curator and each day introduces listeners to Schubert songs. Today a selection of songs exploring both Classical and Romantic themes will be performed live by Sophie Bevan (soprano), Anna Leese (soprano), Anna Huntley (mezzo), Rupert Charlesworth (tenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ben Appl (baritone), and Martin Haessler (baritone), with Graham Johnson at the piano. Plus Tom Service in his Schubert Lab asks: Classical or Romantic - was he either, neither or both?, and Sean Rafferty will be delivering another Sonic Postcard from Schubert's home city of Vienna.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01dtwmm)
Live from MediaCity, Salford
Overture (Claudine von Villa Bella), Salve Regina, Symphony No 1
The BBC Philharmonic under Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena continues the celebration of The Spirit of Schubert with a concert including a symphony Schubert didn't know he'd written, completed by Brian Newbould from fragments left by the composer. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ruby Hughes is the soprano soloist for Schubert's aria Salve Regina.
Schubert: Claudine von Villa Bella - Overture, D.239
Schubert: Salve Regina, D.676
Schubert: Symphony No.1, D.82.
THU 20:15 Discovering Music (b01dtx5s)
The Spirit of Schubert
Schubert Fragments
Stephen Johnson talks to Hull University's Brian Newbould about his work on reconstructing a number of Schubert fragments and incomplete works, including the Symphony in D, D.708a which will be given its world première in the second half of the concert. Stephen Johnson and Professor Newbould will explore the ways in which works can be completed and orchestrated from original piano score fragments and explain how close to the composer's original thoughts they really are.
THU 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01dtx5v)
Live from MediaCity, Salford
Symphony in D, D708a
The BBC Philharmonic under Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena continues the celebration of The Spirit of Schubert with a concert including a symphony Schubert didn't know he'd written, completed by Brian Newbould from fragments left by the composer. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ruby Hughes is the soprano soloist for Schubert's aria Salve Regina.
Schubert: Symphony in D, D708a (completed by Brian Newbould).
THU 22:00 Play Schubert for Me (b01dtwmp)
Classical or Romantic?
As part of Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents late night Schubert requests and dedications.
Write to her with your Schubert requests and dedications. Email: schubert@bbc.co.uk
Live in the studio across the week she'll also feature exclusive Schubert Remixed sessions, with contemporary artists from across the genres reinterpreting some of Schubert's great songs live in the studio.
Including at
11.30pm The Schubert Essay: During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional. Audiences listened attentively in an environment free of gimmicks, and performance criticism blossomed. Night Waves' Matthew Sweet examines the legacy that controlling an audience would create, and how this new wave of respectability enabled writing, composing and performance to prosper.
FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01dtvrs)
The Spirit of Schubert
Classical or Romantic?
John Shea continues BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert with a selection of Schubert's songs on Classical themes, two string quartets and some waltzes for piano. Plus a rare chance to hear the 1822 opera Alfonso and Estrella written to a libretto by the poet Franz Von Schrober, and not performed until 34 years after Schubert's death.
1.13AM
Alfonso and Estrella D.732
Hermann Prey (baritone) - Mauregato
Edith Mathis (soprano) - Estrella
Theo Adam (bass) - Adolfo
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) - Froila
Peter Schrier (tenor) - Alfonso
Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Radio Chorus, Otmar Suitner (conductor)
3.57AM
Songs on the theme of the Classics...
Amphiaraos (D.166)
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (Horch wie Murmeln) - 1st setting (D.396)
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (Horch wie Murmeln) - 2nd setting (D.583)
Hippolits Lied (D.890)
Fragment aus dem Aeschylus (D.450)
Philoktet (D.540)
Orest auf Tauris (D.548)
Der Entsuhnte Orest (D.699)
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
4.22AM
Quartet for strings (D.46) in C major
Leipzig String Quartet
4.48AM
Songs: Salis-Seewis song settings from 1816...
Pflugerlied (D.392)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
Die Einsiedelei [1st setting] (D.393)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
An die Harmonie (D.394)
Peter Schreier (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
Lied (Ins stille Land) (D.403) [all versions]
Margaret Price (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Die Herbstnacht (D.404)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Der Herbstabend (D.405)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
Abschied von der Harfe (D.406)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)
Herbstlied (Bunt sind schon die Walder) (D.502)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)
5.10AM
Salve Regina(D.27) in F major
Erna Berger (soprano), Michael Raucheisen (piano), Heinrich Geuser (clarinet)
5.19AM
12 Waltzes, 17 landlers and 9 ecossaises for piano (D.145)
Michael Endres (piano)
5.44AM
Die Einsiedelei(D.337)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
5.47AM
Das Grab is tief und stille(D.377)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Andreas Staier(piano)
5.50AM
Songs: 1813 Schiller Settings...
Die Schatten (D.50)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Sehnsucht (Ach, aus dieses Tales Grunden) (D.52) [1st setting]
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Thekla [eine Geisterstimme] (D.73) [1st setting]
Maya Boog (soprano), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano)
Dithyrambe (1st arrangement)
James Glichrist (tenor), Brandon Velarde (baritone), The London Schubert Chorale
6.05AM
Quartet for strings (D.87) in E flat major
The Sorrel Quartet
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01dvz05)
The Spirit of Schubert
Who Is Schubert?
Who is Schubert?
With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer.
Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.
Today we ask who is Schubert? Clearly a man, trapped in a body vulnerable to the fortunes and misfortunes of the day, the whims of others, health, sickness, temptation and disease. But also a creative persona, capable of sublime visions in which intellect, sensuality and spirituality meet with unique consequences. We try to get to the essence of the man, and what the music tells of him.
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01dvz07)
Essential Schubert
Who Is Schubert?
presented by Sarah Walker
10.00
Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Peter Schreier.
10.30
Sarah's guest today is poet Fiona Sampson, who has chosen some chamber music for strings. Fiona originally trained and worked as a violinist, and this music is particularly meaningful for her; in fact, she has based many of her poems on the experience of listening to music, and Schubert in particular.
11.00
Schubert
Sonata in C, D812 (Grand Duo)
Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten (piano duet)
11.45
Today's Lieder advocate is Brigitte Fassbaender, who introduces some of her favourite Schubert recordings.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01dvz09)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Who Is Schubert?
7/8 Throughout the 1820s, Schubert's status as a composer had been steadily rising but his friends worried as his increasingly erratic behaviour began to threaten his reputation. Presented by Donald Macleod.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01dvz0c)
Lunchtime Schubertiad
James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook
As part of the Spirit of Schubert season on Radio 3, the biggest ever celebration of Schubert's music across the whole schedule, Louise Fryer presents Die Schöne Müllerin live from Edinburgh's St Cecilia's Hall, sung by James Gilchrist (tenor), with Anna Tilbrook (piano).
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin.
James Gilchrist, tenor.
Anna Tilbrook, piano.
FRI 14:15 Afternoon Concert (b01dvz0f)
The Spirit of Schubert
Schubert compl Newbould: Symphonies Nos 7 and 10
The Spirit of Schubert. Presented by Penny Gore. If Schubert's 8th Symphony is the "Unfinished", then what can we call both his 7th and 10th Symphonies? In today's programme a rare chance to hear both works in completions by Brian Newbould. Schubert's 10th Symphony was the work he was working on during his final period of illness and points forward to what have been ....
Throughout the afternoon Dame Janet Baker is our voice of Schubert Song, and around
3pm we'll drop in on the Schubert Lab with Professor of Schubert - Tom Service
2.15pm
Schubert - Symphony no. 7 (D.729) in E major (in the completion by Brian Newbould)
Ulster Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
4pm
Schubert - Symphony no. 10 (D.936a) in D major (in the completion by Brian Newbould)
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Garry Walker (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01dvz0h)
In Tune Schubert Salon
Geraldine McGreevy, Toby Spence, Marcus Farnsworth, Ruby Hughes, Christoph Denoth
As part of The Spirit of Schubert Suzy Klein presents the In Tune Schubert Salon, with live performances by Graham Johnson (piano)
with singers Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone).
Soprano Ruby Hughes will also perform live with guitarist Christoph Denoth.
Tom Service continues his Schubert Lab, today he will be asking Who is Schubert - and aiming to prove whether he was a composer up with the angels or bathed in slime.
Sean Rafferty will also continue his journey through Schubert's Vienna.
The In Tune Schubert Salon, live from
16:30 to
19:30.
News bulletins at
17:00,
18:00 and
19:00.
Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01dvz0k)
Schubert in Concert
Takacs Quartet, Joshua Bell, Florian Boesch
As part of The Spirit of Schubert, Petroc Trelawny presents Florian Boesch & Roger Vignoles in Winterreise, D.911. Joshua Bell & Sam Haywood perform the Fantasy in C for violin and piano, D.934, preceded by a guide on the piece with Paul Robertson. And finally a selection of songs, including performances by Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne, Simon Keenlysise, Christopher Pregardien, Christine Schafer and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Winterreise, D.911
Florian Boesch, baritone
Roger Vignoles, piano
(preceded by TRUSTED GUIDE on the Fantasy with Paul Robertson)
Fantasy in C for violin and piano, D.934
Joshua Bell, violin
Sam Haywood, piano
Sequence of Songs.
FRI 22:00 Play Schubert for Me (b01dvz0m)
Who Is Schubert?
As part of Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents late night Schubert requests and dedications.
Write to her with your Schubert requests and dedications. Email: schubert@bbc.co.uk
Live in the studio across the week she'll also feature exclusive Schubert Remixed sessions, with contemporary artists from across the genres reinterpreting some of Schubert's great songs live in the studio.
Including at
11.30pm The Schubert Essay: Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long oval face and a deeply cleft chin. In turning to the streets of 19th century Vienna, "a night in the arms of Venus lead to a lifetime on Mercury" Whilst uncertainty exists about the cause of Schubert's death from syphilis, what do his attempts at mercury remedies reveal about his final few years? The medical historian and author of Romanticism and the Sciences Andrew Cunningham, examines The UnRomantic death of the mercurial Schubert.