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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Composer of the Week: Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Episode 3: Recognition

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

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Episode 3: Recognition

Recognition

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Recognition

Donald Macleod presents works from the period of Schubert's growing reputation.

Donald Macleod introduces one of Schubert's finest piano sonatas, some settings of verses by a budding young poet and the last of his three great string quartets.

Throughout his career, Schubert was keen for his talents to be recognised by the influential Viennese music society, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. By 1825 Schubert's vocal quartets and lighter piano music were increasingly performed at their Thursday chamber concerts and he was elected one of the twenty 'deputies' of the committee of the Society. There was little public appetite for Schubert's more serious chamber music however and he had great difficulty getting any of it published. Donald Macleod introduces one of the sonatas Schubert finally saw into print in 1827, regarded by Schumann as Schubert's 'most perfect work, both in form and conception' plus some settings of verses by a budding young poet and the last of his three great string quartets.

Trinklied D888
Richard Jackson (baritone)
Graham Johnson (piano)

Wiegenlied D867 
Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Graham Johson (piano)

String Quartet in G, D887 (1st mvt)
Artemis Quartet

Piano Sonata in G, D894 (2nd mvt)
Paul Lewis (piano)

Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 
Grab und Mond D893
Nachthelle D892 
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Richard Jackson (baritone)
London Schubert Chorale
Graham Johnson (piano).

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