Tom Service on Schubert

Why I'm learning to bake Schubert strudelIf you've been listening to Radio 3 over the weekend, you'll now be fully immersed in the music of Franz Schubert. The station's latest complete-works survey of a major composer follows seasons on Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. As a Radio 3 presenter, I'm part of it, too, presenting a thrice-daily Schubert Lab that aims to get behind the music: for instance, how did he manage to write 22,000 bars of music in just one year? We'll be e...

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