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Soul Music: Series 11: Schubert's Winterreise

Schubert's Winterreise

Series 11

BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Series 11, Schubert's Winterreise

Music lovers describe the part that Schubert's Winterreise has played in their lives.

Music lovers describe the impact of Schubert's Winterreise, 24 songs that track a journey, upon their lives. From March 2011.

Winterreise was written the year before Franz Schubert's death aged just 31, these 24 songs based on poems by Wilhelm Müller describe a journey that takes us ever deeper into the frozen landscape of the soul. 

Singers Thomas Hampson, Mark Padmore, Alice Coote and David Pisaro describe the experience of immersing themselves in this music. 

And Bernard Keefe tells of the time he sang these songs in Hiroshima to survivors of the bomb.

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Producer: Rosie Boulton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.

Soul Music: Series 11

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