Afterlife
Donald Macleod focuses on Schubert’s afterlife and the ways in which his music found an audience in the years after his early death.
Donald Macleod explores the work of Franz Schubert, focusing on five distinct phases in the composer’s life. And afterlife.
Schubert died at the age of 31, when most people are just getting going in life – in the same decade as Keats and Byron and Shelley – and he's often thought of, with them, as an exemplar of a kind of doomed romanticism.
Central to that is a sense of having been thwarted in life – encapsulated, in Schubert’s case, by the fact that so much of his music was unpublished in his lifetime, so much never even heard.
Today Donald Macleod focuses on Schubert’s afterlife – the ways in which his music found an audience in the years after his early death, including the BBC’s regular ‘Schubert Nights’ in the 1920s.
Die Nacht
The King’s Singers
Ave Maria
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Geoffrey Parsons, piano
All That Fall
Samuel Becket, writer
Mary O’Farrell as Maddy Rooney
Donald McWhinnie, producer
Der Tod und das Mädchen
Jessye Norman, soprano
Phillip Moll, piano
String Quartet No 14, “Death and the Maiden”
Belcea Quartet
Valentin Erben, cello
Symphony No 10 (orch. Brian Newbould)
Potsdam Chamber Academy
Antonello Manacorda, conductor
Piano Trio No 2 in E flat
Jörg Ewald Dähler, piano
Hansheinz Schneeberger, violin
Thomas Demenga, cello
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- Fri 24 Nov 2023 12:00BBC Radio 3
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