Friday First and Schubert Week.

"Astral Weeks" by Van Morrison.

BBC Radio 3 is celebrating the 215th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth with 200 consecutive hours of the great man's work, starting today. I thought I'd join in by posting a Schubert selection each day over the next week. Here's the second movement of his String Quartet No. 14, "Death And The Maiden", as performed by the Busch Quartet: