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Stephen Hough

chooses The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Franz Schubert

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Classical pianist, composer and writer
Gramophone Award winning recordings include the complete Rachmaninov and Saint-Saens piano concertos. Soloist at the 2013 First Night of the Proms.

The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Franz Schubert

Stephen Hough chooses the The Hurdy Gurdy Man (Der Leiermann), the final song from Franz Schubert's 1828 song-cycle Winterreise (Winter's Journey).

He tells Mark Lawson why an unusual recording by the Irish baritone Harry Plunket Greene (1865 - 1936)Β is his favourite.

From the Archive

Schubert's Interior Life

Donald Macleod explores Schubert's turbulent emotional state during the writing of Winterreise.

Britten and Pears

Composer Benjamin Britten andΒ tenor Peter Pears performΒ Der Leiermann by Schubert.

Broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 06 Mar 1962

Thomas Hampson

The American baritone Thomas Hampson explores the meaning of Schubert's Winterreise.

Mark Padmore

Tenor Mark PadmoreΒ discussesΒ Schubert's Hurdy Gurdy Man.