The Spirit of Schubert Podcast
´óÏó´«Ã½ 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.
Episodes to download
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Composer of the Week: Schubert Part 2 of 2
Mon 2 Apr 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of to...
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Schubert's Vienna: 17 Syphilis
Sat 31 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty sees grisly evidence of Schubert’s syphilitic condition with Dr of the...
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Schubert's Vienna:18 Last Days
Sat 31 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty is taken to the ‘Sterbewohnung’, the house where Schubert spent his...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 8
Sat 31 Mar 2012
In the eight and final episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the Is...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 7
Fri 30 Mar 2012
In the seventh episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question:...
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Schubert's Vienna: 15 Hofburg and school
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty follows in Schubert’s schoolboy footsteps as Nora Tunkel takes him to...
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Composer of the Week Schubert 1 of 2
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of to...
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Schubert's Vienna: 16 Lichtenthal Church
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty is guided round the Lichtenthal Church, scene of Schubert’s baptism by...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 8 The UnRomantic death of the mercurial Schubert
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...
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Schubert's Vienna: 14 Dancing
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty is taken for a turn around the ballroom by period dance specialist Pia...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 6
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Tom Service tries to answer today's question: Schubert; classical or romantic? Was he...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 7 Schubert and Performance
Thu 29 Mar 2012
During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.
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Schubert's Vienna: 13 Theatres
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty talks to Thomas Trabitsch, director of the Austrian Theatre Museum and...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 5
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Tom Service presents the fifth episiode of The Schubert Lab and investigates what was...
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Schubert's Vienna: 11 Schubert's Clothes
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty rifles through the contents of Schubert's wardrobe with Regina Karner of...
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Schubert's Vienna: 12 Biedermeier
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty delves below the elegant surface of Biedermeier Vienna to find what with...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 6 Schubert and Snow
Wed 28 Mar 2012
Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...
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Schubert's Vienna: 10 Wallersee and Salzburg
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty travels to Upper-Austria and Salzburg to follow in the footsteps of one...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 4
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Tom Service introduces the fourth episode of The Schubert Lab and tries to answer the...
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Schubert's Vienna: 9 Prater and Zoo
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty meets Prater Collection curator Ursula Storch, zoo historian Gerhard and...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 3
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Tom Service tries to answer today's question: What was the magic of Vienna and how did...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 5 Schubert and Scotland
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...
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Schubert's Vienna: 8 Newspapers
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty drops in at the offices of the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna's oldest and talks...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 3
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.
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Schubert's Vienna: 7 Housing
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Sean Rafferty hears about the layout of Schubert's Vienna from Sándor Békési of the...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 2
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...
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Schubert Labs - Episode 2
Mon 26 Mar 2012
Tom Service presents the second episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to find out...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 4 When Schubert Met Beethoven
Mon 26 Mar 2012
The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...
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The Schubert Essay - Episode 1
Mon 26 Mar 2012
The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.
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Schubert Labs - Episode 1
Sun 25 Mar 2012
Tom Service presents the first episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to get to of...