
Composer of the Week: Schubert Part 2 of 2
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of programmes devoted to the Viennese composer
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
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.
Listen to The Spirit of Schubert, a Arts podcast by BBC. Stream 37 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
Browse this show under Arts podcasts.
20 episodes are loaded now from a catalog of 37. More episodes can be opened from this page.
Explore Arts podcasts, United States podcasts and English podcasts.

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...
You can listen to The Spirit of Schubert episodes online on Radio and Podcast. Open an episode and the site player will stream the available audio.
The Spirit of Schubert is listed as a Arts show. The show language is listed as English.
This page lists 37 episodes for The Spirit of Schubert. More episodes are available from the View more button when the list continues.
You can listen to The Spirit of Schubert episodes on this page by opening an episode and using the site player.
The Spirit of Schubert is listed as a Arts show by BBC.
This page lists 37 episodes for The Spirit of Schubert where feed data is available.