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A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. Authored, themed mini-series and one-off programmes offer a chance to share the musical interests of the presenters.

Saturday Classics: Robert Winston's Schubert

Saturday Classics: Robert Winston's Schubert: Episode 1: 1815 Day

Robert Winston's Schubert

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Episode 1: 1815 Day

1815 Day

BBC Radio 3 - Saturday Classics, Robert Winston's Schubert, 1815 Day

Robert Winston introduces his Schubert choices, including Fantasy, D940 and Symphony No 2.

Professor Robert Winston introduces his personal Schubert choices, including the Rondo Brillant, D895 played by Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, and the Fantasy, D940.

Continuing BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Professor Robert Winston introduces some of his personal choices including a recording of the Fantasy in F minor D.940 played by Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten, and a recording of the Second Symphony with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The programme also includes a selection of Schubert's settings of Goethe songs composed in 1815, that remarkable year being celebrated today on Radio 3.

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Professor Robert Winston introduces some of his personal choices of works by Schubert

Continuing Radio 3's celebration of the music of Schubert, Professor Robert Winston introduces some of his personal choices of works by the Viennese composer

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