Composer of the Week: Schubert

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Composer of the Week: Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Friends and unfinished business

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Friends and unfinished business

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Donald Macleod looks into Schubert's friendships and focuses on the year 1820.

Donald Macleod looks into Schubert's friendships and focuses on the year 1820. Music includes two of his unfinished works, the Quartettsatz in C minor, D703, and oratorio Lazarus.

This week of programmes about Franz Schubert focuses on five years through his short life, and features one of his string quartets every day.

Today the focus is on the year 1820, when Schubert was aged 23. Donald Macleod looks into Schubert's friendships, people who rallied round helping him out, including paying his rent whilst he worked on establishing himself as a freelance composer. However, some of his friends cheerfully began calling him "The Tyrant" due to Schubert's tendency to occasionally respond to these kindnesses harshly; they began to see a different side to his nature.

Music featured includes an extract from two unfinished works, his oratorio Lazarus and the Quartet Movement in C minor. Plus we hear one of the best loved of all Schubert's Goethe settings, Erlkönig,which was first performed in this year, and the glorious Song of the Spirits Over the Waters. 

Erlkönig, D 328
Jessye Norman, soprano
Phillip Moll, piano		
 
Lazarus (Act II - end at chorus)
Martin Egel, baritone (Simon)
Martyn Hill, tenor (Nathanael) 
Choeurs de Radio France
Jacques Jouineau, chorus master
Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France 
Theodor Guschlbauer, conductor

String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D 703 (Quartettsatz) 
Doric Quartet 

Psalm 23, D 706 
Det Norske Solistkor 
Grete Pedersen, conductor
Ingrid Andsnes, piano

Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D 714 
Det Norske Solistkor
Grete Pedersen, conductor
Catherine Bullock and Madelene Berg, viola 
Øystein Birkeland and Ole Eirik Ree, cello
Dan Styffe, double bass

Producer: Amy Wheel for BBC Wales

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

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A week of programmes about Franz Schubert focusing on five years of his short life.

A week of programmes about Franz Schubert focusing on five years of his short life and featuring, each day, one of his string quartets.

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