The Spirit Of Schubert

Tom Service introduces the fourth episode of The Schubert Lab and tries to answer the day's question; Schubert makes the piano represent the outdoors as well as any painting of the period. How does he do it?

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 journalist Richard Solder to see what was in the news in Schubert's Vienna.

Sean Rafferty hears about the layout of Schubert's Vienna from Sándor Békési of the Vienna Museum and Caroline Jaeger-Klein from the Vienna University of Technology and is guided round the house where Schubert was born by Peter Stuiber

Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry. Robert Vilain, a specialist in the German poetic tradition, examines Schubert's poetic sources from Goethe to Wilhelm Muller

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 and retired medical doctor Raymond Tallis re examines the neurological and psychological evidence of a composer who increasingly meditated on the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships

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 composer, Franz Schubert, and his pilgrimage resulted in the discovery of the score of Rosamunde. Travel writer Simon Calder explores the journey of anticipation and what drove the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians to seek out the work of a relatively unpopular composer.

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 reinvented after his death, in politics, art and literature. Who has claimed Schubert - and why? And what are the different things that he has come to represent since his death in 1837?

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 about coffee-houses and smoking in Schubert's Vienna.

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 Police in Schubert's Vienna.

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.