Robert Winston's Musical Analysis - Series 2

Series in which Professor Robert Winston explores the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered mental and physical illness

Robert Winston's Musical Analysis - Series 2 - Franz Schubert

Professor Robert Winston looks at the evidence that Schubert contracted syphilis and wrote his greatest works under the shadow of this chronic and, at the time, incurable disease.

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Robert Winston's Musical Analysis - Series 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Prof Winston examines how deafness and a catalogue of chronic illnesses became key to the transcendent spirit of Beethoven's music.

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Robert Winston's Musical Analysis - Series 2 - Peter Warlock

Prof Robert Winston looks at the stark divisions of light and dark in Peter Warlock's songs, and asks if we're right to label this troubled composer with a psychological condition.

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Robert Winston's Musical Analysis - Series 2 - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Prof Robert Winston investigates how hypnotherapy helped save Rachmaninoff's career, and a theory to explain a problem for performers of his piano music: his enormous hand span.

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