Essential Schubert [Essential Classics]

10.00

Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Peter Schreier.

10.30

Sarah's guest today is poet Fiona Sampson, who has chosen some chamber music for strings. Fiona originally trained and worked as a violinist, and this music is particularly meaningful for her; in fact, she has based many of her poems on the experience of listening to music, and Schubert in particular.

11.00

Sonata in C, D812 (Grand Duo)

Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten (piano duet)

11.45

Today's Lieder advocate is Brigitte Fassbaender, who introduces some of her favourite Schubert recordings.

Sarah Walker presents great works by Schubert in classic performances.

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

10.00

Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

10.30

Sarah's guest today is Baroness Julia Neuberger. She has chosen Schubert's setting of Psalm 92, composed to a Hebrew text and written at the request of and perhaps for a performance by Salomon Sulzer, the cantor at a new synagogue in Vienna. She's also chosen an excerpt from the unfinished opera Der Graf Von Gleichen, based on an exotic tale set in the Ottoman Empire, but addressing the serious issue of polygamy.

11.00

Piano Sonata in E, D459/459a

Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

11.30

Today's Lieder advocate is Christian Gerhaher, who will introduce recordings of some of his favourite Schubert recordings.

Sarah Walker introduces great works by Schubert. Julia Neuberger is the guest.

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

10.00

Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Elly Ameling.

10.30

Sarah's guest today is director Jeremy Sams, who has chosen music with a domestic setting. As well as Schubert's many songs, intended to be sung and played in the home, he composed a great deal of music for piano 4-hands, to be played by two pianists at one piano. Jeremy has fond memories of playing this uniquely intimate but still profound music.

11.00

Piano Sonata in A minor, D537

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

11.30

Today's Lieder advocate is Ian Bostridge, who introduces recordings of some of his favourite Schubert recordings.

Sarah Walker introduces great works by Schubert in classic performances.

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

10.00

Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Gerard Souzay.

1030 Sarah's guest today is philosopher Roger Scruton has chosen songs in classic recordings by great singers of the 20th century, and a beautiful Notturno for Piano Trio written towards the end of Schubert's life, and which sounds like a trail run for the later and better known slow movement of the String Quintet.

11.00

Piano Sonata in B major, D575

Sviatoslav Richter

11.30 Today's Lieder advocate introduces some of their favourite Schubert recordings.

Sarah Walker introduces great works by Schubert in classic performances.

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

10.00

Sarah is joined by Tom Service for Schubert Lab, followed by a mini Lieder recital by Christa Ludwig

1030 Sarah's guest today is arts executive Sir John Tusa, who has chosen recordings which remind him of Schubert's music that he heard at particularly memorable concerts: two singers in song recitals, Peter Pears (accompanied by Benjamin Britten) and the recently-retired Thomas Quasthoff, and the pianist Andras Schiff.

11.00

Piano Sonata in C, D840 (Reliquie)

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

11.30 Today's Lieder advocate introduces some of their favourite Schubert recordings.

Sarah Walker introduces great works by Schubert in classic performances.

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music