BBC Radio 3 tells you everything you need to know about Franz Schubert. These free downloads will cover every aspect of the life of one of the greatest ever composers.
Latest episodes
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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 programmes devoted to the Viennese composer
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Schubert's Vienna:18 Last Days
Sean Rafferty is taken to the ‘Sterbewohnung’, the house where Schubert spent his final days and where he composed some of his greatest works, and goes to the Zentralfriedhof where…
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Schubert's Vienna: 17 Syphilis
Sean Rafferty sees grisly evidence of Schubert’s syphilitic condition with Dr Beatrix Patzak, director of the Federal Pathology and Anatomy Museum, and hears about the symptoms, pr…
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Schubert Labs - Episode 8
In the eight and final episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question: Is Schubert's final year an end or a begining?
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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 oval face and a deeply cleft chin. In turning to the streets of 19th century Vienna, "a night in…
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Schubert's Vienna: 16 Lichtenthal Church
Sean Rafferty is guided round the Lichtenthal Church, scene of Schubert’s baptism and first public performance, by parishioner Hannah Martin.
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28 min ↗
Schubert Labs - Episode 7
In the seventh episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question: Who is Schubert? Prove whether he was a composer up with the angels or bathed in slime.
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Schubert's Vienna: 15 Hofburg and school
Sean Rafferty follows in Schubert’s schoolboy footsteps as Nora Tunkel takes him to Mass sung by the Vienna Boys’ Choir at the Hofburgkapelle, and reads Schubert’s school report wi…
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50 min ↗
Composer of the Week Schubert 1 of 2
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of programmes devoted to the Viennese composer
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12 min ↗
The Schubert Essay - Episode 7 Schubert and Performance
During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional. Audiences listened attentively in an environment free of gimmicks, and performance criticism blossomed. N…
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Schubert's Vienna: 14 Dancing
Sean Rafferty is taken for a turn around the ballroom by period dance specialist Pia Brocza and hears how Schubert’s Vienna was waltz-crazy.
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26 min ↗
Schubert Labs - Episode 6
Tom Service tries to answer today's question: Schubert; classical or romantic? Was he either, neither or both?
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Schubert's Vienna: 13 Theatres
Sean Rafferty talks to Thomas Trabitsch, director of the Austrian Theatre Museum and discovers the importance of theatre in Schubert’s Vienna.
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12 min ↗
The Schubert Essay - Episode 6 Schubert and Snow
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.
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Schubert's Vienna: 12 Biedermeier
Sean Rafferty delves below the elegant surface of Biedermeier Vienna to find what lurks there with the University of Vienna's Karl Vocelka.
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32 min ↗
Schubert Labs - Episode 5
Tom Service presents the fifth episiode of The Schubert Lab and investigates what Schubert was looking for and what he found in his 'wanderings'.
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Schubert's Vienna: 11 Schubert's Clothes
Sean Rafferty rifles through the contents of Schubert's wardrobe with Regina Karner of the Vienna Museum Fashion Collection.
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12 min ↗
The Schubert Essay - Episode 5 Schubert and Scotland
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian poems, and Scott's The Lady of the Lake.
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Schubert's Vienna: 10 Wallersee and Salzburg
Sean Rafferty travels to Upper-Austria and Salzburg to follow in the footsteps of one of Schubert's holidays.
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Schubert's Vienna: 9 Prater and Zoo
Sean Rafferty meets Prater Collection curator Ursula Storch, zoo historian Gerhard Heindl and Regina Karner of the Vienna Museum Fashion Collection to hear some of the surprising t…