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Composer of the Week: Schubert

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5/5. Schubert wrote his dark Piano Sonata in A minor, D784, after a period of being so ill that he had had to turn down work. Donald Macleod also looks at the incidental music written for the play Rosamunde, discovered by George Grove and Arthur Sullivan 39 years after Schubert's death. Prometheus, D674 Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Charles Spencer (piano)
Piano Sonata in A minor, D784 Vladimir Ashkenazy Incidental Music: Rosamunde Anne Sofie von
Otter (mezzo), Ernst Senff Choir , Chamber
Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
George Grove
Unknown:
Arthur Sullivan
Baritone:
Thomas Quasthoff
Baritone:
Charles Spencer
Unknown:
Ernst Senff Choir
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Source: Radio Times

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