The Schubertiade Broadcasts on Austrian Radio

When the 2025 Schubertiade starts, you can be part of the audience from home. The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) will be recording some concerts at the opening Schubertiade, which will then be broadcast on the Ö1 programme.

The Full schedule is here.

The broadcasts open with a look back at 50 years of Schubertiade history, from its start as a one-week festival created by Gerd Nachbauer from an idea from baritone Hermann Prey, to its celebrations in 2025, its semi centennial year.

3 May, 3:05 CEST (GMT+2) is The Schubertiade in Voralrberg: Five Decades in the Home for Shubertians. In 1976, a small festival started in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria, as a series of song recitals and chamber music concerts. Fifty years later, the Schubertiade festival has grown and became the world-famous centre for all things Schubert. ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company) has been recording Schubertiade concerts from the very beginning, and this overview program gives an idea of the history of this famous festival.

Further broadcasts bring recordings made through the festival:

7 May, 14:05 CEST (GMT+2) will have Liviu Holender, baritone, with Lukas Rommelspacher, piano. Selected songs by Franz Schubert as well as Gustav Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder” and his “Songs of a Wayfarer” (recorded on 30 April at the Markus Sittikus Hall, Hohenems)

Program: https://www.schubertiade.at/de/produktionen/liviu-holender-lukas-rommelspacher.html

Liviu Holender

Lukas Rommelspacher

13 May, 14:05 CEST (GMT+2) brings Renaud Capuçon, violin with Guillaume Bellom on piano, playing Franz Schubert’s Violin Sonata in D major, D. 384, Sonatine; Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 12/3, and the collaborative F.A.E. Sonata, by Albert Dietrich, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms (recorded on April 30 at the Markus Sittikus Hall, Hohenems)

Program: https://www.schubertiade.at/en/produktionen/renaud-capuon-guillaume-bellom-2.html

Renaud Capucon

Guillaume Bellom

14 May, 14:05 CEST (GMT+2) brings the Minetti Quartet doing Schubert and Schumann. Schubert’s String Quartet in A minor, D. 804, Rosamunde, will be followed by Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, where the Quartet will be joined by Kit Armstrong, piano (recorded on 4 May at the Markus Sittikus Hall, Hohenems)

Program: https://www.schubertiade.at/en/produktionen/minetti-quartett-kit-armstrong.html

Minetti Quartet

22 May, 19:30 CEST (GMT+2) gives us duets for mezzo-soprano and baritone with Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano and Konstantin Krimmel, baritone, joined by Ammiel Bushakevitzon piano. In a program of Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and selected lieder by Brahms (recorded on 4 May at the Markus Sittikus Hall, Hohenems)

Program: https://www.schubertiade.at/en/produktionen/catriona-morison-konstantin-krimmel-ammiel-bushakevitz.html