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Through the Night: The Spirit of Schubert

Through the Night: The Spirit of Schubert: Episode 6: Classical or Romantic?

Classical or Romantic?

Episode 6

Episode 6: Classical or Romantic?

The Spirit of Schubert

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, The Spirit of Schubert, Classical or Romantic?

John Shea with Schubert songs on classical themes, string quartets and an opera.

John Shea presents a selection of Schubert's songs on classical themes, two string quartets and his 1822 opera Alfonso and Estrella.

John Shea continues BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert with a selection of Schubert's songs on Classical themes, two string quartets and some waltzes for piano. Plus a rare chance to hear the 1822 opera Alfonso and Estrella written to a libretto by the poet Franz Von Schrober, and not performed until 34 years after Schubert's death.

1.13AM
Alfonso and Estrella D.732
Hermann Prey (baritone) - Mauregato
Edith Mathis (soprano) - Estrella
Theo Adam (bass) - Adolfo 
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) - Froila
Peter Schrier (tenor) - Alfonso
Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Radio Chorus, Otmar Suitner (conductor)

3.57AM
Songs on the theme of the Classics...

Amphiaraos (D.166)

Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (Horch wie Murmeln) - 1st setting (D.396)

Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (Horch wie Murmeln) - 2nd setting (D.583)

Hippolits Lied (D.890)
Fragment aus dem Aeschylus (D.450)

Philoktet (D.540)

Orest auf Tauris (D.548)

Der Entsuhnte Orest (D.699)

Thomas Hampson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

4.22AM
Quartet for strings (D.46) in C major
Leipzig String Quartet

4.48AM
Songs: Salis-Seewis song settings from 1816...

Pflugerlied (D.392)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)

Die Einsiedelei [1st setting] (D.393)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)

An die Harmonie (D.394)
Peter Schreier (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)

Lied (Ins stille Land) (D.403) [all versions]
Margaret Price  (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)

Die Herbstnacht (D.404)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)

Der Herbstabend (D.405)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)

Abschied von der Harfe (D.406)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano)

Herbstlied (Bunt sind schon die Walder) (D.502)
Lucia Popp (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano)

5.10AM
Salve Regina(D.27) in F major
Erna Berger (soprano), Michael Raucheisen (piano), Heinrich Geuser (clarinet) 

5.19AM
12 Waltzes, 17 landlers and 9 ecossaises for piano (D.145) 
Michael Endres (piano)

5.44AM
Die Einsiedelei(D.337)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir

5.47AM
Das Grab is tief und stille(D.377) 
Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Andreas Staier(piano)

5.50AM
Songs: 1813 Schiller Settings...

Die Schatten (D.50)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

Sehnsucht (Ach, aus dieses Tales Grunden) (D.52) [1st setting]
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

Thekla [eine Geisterstimme] (D.73) [1st setting]
Maya Boog (soprano), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano)

Dithyrambe (1st arrangement)
James Glichrist (tenor), Brandon Velarde (baritone), The London Schubert Chorale 

6.05AM
Quartet for strings (D.87) in E flat major 
The Sorrel Quartet

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