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BBC Radio 3 tells you everything you need to know about Franz Schubert. These free downloads will cover every aspect of the life of one of the greatest ever composers.
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of programmes devoted to the Viennese composer
Sean Rafferty is taken to the ‘Sterbewohnung’, the house where Schubert spent his final days and where he composed some of his greatest work...
Sean Rafferty sees grisly evidence of Schubert’s syphilitic condition with Dr Beatrix Patzak, director of the Federal Pathology and Anatomy...
In the eight and final episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question: Is Schubert's final year an end or a begining?
Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long oval face and a deeply cleft chin. In turning to the str...
Sean Rafferty is guided round the Lichtenthal Church, scene of Schubert’s baptism and first public performance, by parishioner Hannah Martin...
In the seventh episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question: Who is Schubert? Prove whether he was a composer up wi...
Sean Rafferty follows in Schubert’s schoolboy footsteps as Nora Tunkel takes him to Mass sung by the Vienna Boys’ Choir at the Hofburgkapell...
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of programmes devoted to the Viennese composer
During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional. Audiences listened attentively in an environment free of gimmicks...
Sean Rafferty is taken for a turn around the ballroom by period dance specialist Pia Brocza and hears how Schubert’s Vienna was waltz-crazy.
Tom Service tries to answer today's question: Schubert; classical or romantic? Was he either, neither or both?
Sean Rafferty talks to Thomas Trabitsch, director of the Austrian Theatre Museum and discovers the importance of theatre in Schubert’s Vienn...
Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and life, with Schubert as the point of departure and ret...
Sean Rafferty delves below the elegant surface of Biedermeier Vienna to find what lurks there with the University of Vienna's Karl Vocelka.
Tom Service presents the fifth episiode of The Schubert Lab and investigates what Schubert was looking for and what he found in his 'wanderi...
Sean Rafferty rifles through the contents of Schubert's wardrobe with Regina Karner of the Vienna Museum Fashion Collection.
Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian poems, and Scott's The Lady of the Lake.
Sean Rafferty travels to Upper-Austria and Salzburg to follow in the footsteps of one of Schubert's holidays.
Sean Rafferty meets Prater Collection curator Ursula Storch, zoo historian Gerhard Heindl and Regina Karner of the Vienna Museum Fashion Col...
Tom Service introduces the fourth episode of The Schubert Lab and tries to answer the day's question; Schubert makes the piano represent the...
Tom Service tries to answer today's question: What was the magic of Vienna and how did it shape Schubert's music?
The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s meetings with his great hero, Beethoven
Sean Rafferty drops in at the offices of the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna's oldest newspaper, and talks to its editor Reinhard Göweil and journali...
Sean Rafferty hears about the layout of Schubert's Vienna from Sándor Békési of the Vienna Museum and Caroline Jaeger-Klein from the Vienna...
Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry. Robert Vilain, a specialist in the German poetic tradition, examines...
Tom Service presents the second episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to find out what Schubert got up to with his mates.
Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often fall short of explanation. The writer, philosopher an...
The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion. He went in pursuit of the lost works of a neglected comp...
As part of Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert season, Sir John Tusa explores the many and varied ways in which the composer has been used and rein...
Sean Rafferty visits fifth generation coffee roaster Thomas Meinl at Julius Meinl to find out what was in Schubert's cup.
Sean Rafferty visits Maximillan Platzer, proprietor of Café Wiemer and Eva Abi-Fadel who owns the oldest pipe shop in Europe to find out abo...
Tom Service presents the first episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to get to the bottom of the man and his music.
Researcher Karin Schneider and Karl Vocelka, Head of History at Vienna University tell Sean Rafferty about the pervasive grip of the Secret...
Sean Rafferty learns about the Congress of Vienna from Karl Vocelka, Head of History at Vienna University.
Sean Rafferty finds out about drinking, Schubert-style, from restaurant manager Udo Kaubek and wine grower and heuriger owner, Rainer Christ...
Sean Rafferty asks Udo Kaubek, Manager of Julius Meinl am Graben restaurant, about the sorts of things Schubert might have eaten.