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Composer of the Week: Schubert

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.

At the end of 1822 Schubert was diagnosed as having syphilis. It was a discovery which prompted him to write some of the deepest and most profound of all his works.

Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784 (2nd mvt) - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Die Neugierige (Die Schone Mullerin) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Hubert Giesen (piano)

String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) - Melos Quartet

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Presenter:
Donald Macleod

BBC Radio 3

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