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Schubert Songs

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Many of Schubert's six hundred songs were composed quickly and often in the midst of of a gathering of friends loudly revelling or performing other music. Sometimes that remarkable facility would be exercised while walking in company through the woods round Vienna. John Watson has composed a sequence of scenes from this prodigious working life - sometimes in Schubert's own voice sometimes in the voices of critics or friends. Here are glimpses - forming a song cycle as it were - depicting Schubert at work or between songs until the final fortnight's struggle when he leaves them behind.

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