The Spirit Of Schubert [Breakfast]

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1815 Day

20120324

The Spirit of Schubert - 1815 Day.

With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer.

Today we celebrate the year 1815 when Schubert wrote nearly 22,000 bars of music, much of it in the current repertoire 200 years on. This feat represents a productivity unparalleled in the history of any art. Where did that productivity come from and how did he physically create and write down such a vast amount of music? Throughout the day at 1115, 1400 and 1745 Tom Service introduces The Schubert Lab exploring issues and answering questions about the composer's life and music.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, focusing on Schubert in the year 1815.

Schubert And Friends

20120325

The Spirit of Schubert - Schubert and Friends

Today we celebrate Schubert and his Friends. The spirit of camaraderie reflected in much of Schubert's music was essential to the life of the composer and his close-knit circle - friends in music, other arts and other professions, who wrote texts for dozens of his songs and made for the psychological well-being which could only aid his creativity and ease the later bouts of illness and depression. Today The Spirit of Schubert investigates how important those friends were to the creativity and productivity of a composer who lived life to the full.

Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.

Radio 3's breakfast show

Schubert And Vienna

20120326

Schubert and Vienna

Schubert's fortunes as a composer were largely conditioned by the musical scene in the city where he was born and which he seldom left. Few pieces are not in some way connected with the institutions, societies, buildings, professional musicians and businesses of Vienna at its height as the hub of musical endeavour in the western world. Today we ask what was the magic of Vienna, and how did it shape Schubert's music?

Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert including between 8.00 and 8.30 the world premiere of Brian Newbould's completion of Schubert's Minuet and Trio D2f.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring music by Schubert.

The Outdoors

20120327

Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

So many of Schubert's songs reflect his love of nature, whilst his chamber and orchestral works were at times shaped by the wealth of imagery offered by the outdoors. As a composer who was able to represent the outdoors often as well as any painting of the period, today we investigate how his music translates the natural world into images in the mind.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert.

Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the life and music of Schubert.

Schubert The Wanderer

20120328

Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

Schubert found such musical mileage in the concept of 'The Wanderer' that he reworked music from the song of that name within his 'Wanderer' Fantasy for piano. Images of alienation, rejection, despair and death often go hand in hand with the portrayal of rudderless peregrination. Today we ask what was Schubert looking for, and what did he find?

Continuing Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert season, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.

Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the life and music of Schubert.

Classical Or Romantic?

20120329

Schubert - Classical or Romantic?

Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

From his earliest days Schubert, like Mozart and Beethoven, aimed to excel across the whole of instrumental and vocal composition and that put his roots firmly in classical soil. Inspiration from outside music soon coloured his thinking though, pushing him towards a richer harmonic and textural music - ahead of the true Romantics. Today we ask, what was Schubert at heart - Classical or Romantic?

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert.

Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the life and work of Schubert.

Who Is Schubert?

20120330

Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

Today we ask who is Schubert? Clearly a man, trapped in a body vulnerable to the fortunes and misfortunes of the day, the whims of others, health, sickness, temptation and disease. But also a creative persona, capable of sublime visions in which intellect, sensuality and spirituality meet with unique consequences. We try to get to the essence of the man, and what the music tells of him.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert.

Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show celebrating the life and work of Schubert.

The Last Year

20120331

The Spirit of Schubert - The Last Year.

Throughout the day at 1100, 1400 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music.

Today we consider Schubert's last year. He died at the age of 31 in 1828 having written almost a thousand works. He'd contracted syphillis fives years before his death and the works of those final years reached an immediacy and intensity he'd not before discovered. His was a brief life that burned bright, and it's impossible to call these works - when many other composers would just be establishing themselves - a late period. Yet they touch such extraordinary depths, we have to ask how close did he know he was to death. With such a presence of emotion in these pieces, what does that music say about Schubert's understanding of the world. And is the music of the final year of his life an end or a beginning?

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show on the final day of The Spirit of Schubert

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show.

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show celebrating the music of Schubert.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
01	1815 Day	20120324	The Spirit of Schubert - 1815 Day. With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Today we celebrate the year 1815 when Schubert wrote nearly 22,000 bars of music, much of it in the current repertoire 200 years on. This feat represents a productivity unparalleled in the history of any art. Where did that productivity come from and how did he physically create and write down such a vast amount of music? Throughout the day at 1115, 1400 and 1745 Tom Service introduces The Schubert Lab exploring issues and answering questions about the composer's life and music. Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show. Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, focusing on Schubert in the year 1815.
02	Schubert And Friends	20120325	The Spirit of Schubert - Schubert and Friends With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Today we celebrate Schubert and his Friends. The spirit of camaraderie reflected in much of Schubert's music was essential to the life of the composer and his close-knit circle - friends in music, other arts and other professions, who wrote texts for dozens of his songs and made for the psychological well-being which could only aid his creativity and ease the later bouts of illness and depression. Today The Spirit of Schubert investigates how important those friends were to the creativity and productivity of a composer who lived life to the full. Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show. Radio 3's breakfast show
03	Schubert And Vienna	20120326	Schubert and Vienna With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Schubert's fortunes as a composer were largely conditioned by the musical scene in the city where he was born and which he seldom left. Few pieces are not in some way connected with the institutions, societies, buildings, professional musicians and businesses of Vienna at its height as the hub of musical endeavour in the western world. Today we ask what was the magic of Vienna, and how did it shape Schubert's music? Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert including between 8.00 and 8.30 the world premiere of Brian Newbould's completion of Schubert's Minuet and Trio D2f. Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring music by Schubert.
04	The Outdoors	20120327	With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. So many of Schubert's songs reflect his love of nature, whilst his chamber and orchestral works were at times shaped by the wealth of imagery offered by the outdoors. As a composer who was able to represent the outdoors often as well as any painting of the period, today we investigate how his music translates the natural world into images in the mind. Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert. Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the life and music of Schubert.
05	Schubert The Wanderer	20120328	With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. Schubert found such musical mileage in the concept of 'The Wanderer' that he reworked music from the song of that name within his 'Wanderer' Fantasy for piano. Images of alienation, rejection, despair and death often go hand in hand with the portrayal of rudderless peregrination. Today we ask what was Schubert looking for, and what did he find? Continuing Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert season, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show. Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the life and music of Schubert.
06	Classical Or Romantic?	20120329	Schubert - Classical or Romantic? With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. From his earliest days Schubert, like Mozart and Beethoven, aimed to excel across the whole of instrumental and vocal composition and that put his roots firmly in classical soil. Inspiration from outside music soon coloured his thinking though, pushing him towards a richer harmonic and textural music - ahead of the true Romantics. Today we ask, what was Schubert at heart - Classical or Romantic? Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert. Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the life and work of Schubert.
07	Who Is Schubert?	20120330	With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Throughout the day at 1000, 1500 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. Today we ask who is Schubert? Clearly a man, trapped in a body vulnerable to the fortunes and misfortunes of the day, the whims of others, health, sickness, temptation and disease. But also a creative persona, capable of sublime visions in which intellect, sensuality and spirituality meet with unique consequences. We try to get to the essence of the man, and what the music tells of him. Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show celebrating The Spirit of Schubert. Petroc Trelawny with Radio 3's breakfast show celebrating the life and work of Schubert.
08	The Last Year	20120331	The Spirit of Schubert - The Last Year. With 200 hours of broadcasting and more than a thousand performances, over eight and a half days, BBC Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life. Including performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers. When he died at the age of 31 in 1828, he left a vast body of work, and with live daily performances across the UK, specially commissioned completions of his music and unprecedented analysis of the man behind the music, now, for the first time on this scale, BBC Radio 3 unravels the spirit of this prolific composer. Throughout the day at 1100, 1400 and 1745 Tom Service presents The Schubert Lab - exploring the issues of the day and answering questions about Schubert's life and music. Today we consider Schubert's last year. He died at the age of 31 in 1828 having written almost a thousand works. He'd contracted syphillis fives years before his death and the works of those final years reached an immediacy and intensity he'd not before discovered. His was a brief life that burned bright, and it's impossible to call these works - when many other composers would just be establishing themselves - a late period. Yet they touch such extraordinary depths, we have to ask how close did he know he was to death. With such a presence of emotion in these pieces, what does that music say about Schubert's understanding of the world. And is the music of the final year of his life an end or a beginning? Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show on the final day of The Spirit of Schubert Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show. Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show celebrating the music of Schubert.