Schubertiade: The Winterreise Years

202329jan3:00 pm5:30 pmSchubertiade: The Winterreise Years

Time

(Sunday) 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location

Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall

740 University Avenue

Event Details

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Schubert at the Piano: The Winterreise Years
Celebrating the New Copy of A Historic Instrument

Pianists: Martha Fischer, Bill Lutes, Christopher Taylor, Jessica Johnson, Will Preston, and Aubrie Jacobson
Singers: Sarah Brailey, Mimmi Fulmer, Julia Rottmayer, Cheryl Bensman Rowe, Jerzy Gillon, Evan Mitchell, Ryan Nash, and Paul Rowe

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This year’s Schubertiade program is the 10th annual celebration of Schubert’s songs, piano and chamber works, performed in homage to the original Schubertiades that took place during the composer’s lifetime: intimate evenings of friends and fellow artists, musicians, poets and admirers, with the composer himself often seated at the piano, gathering to hear Schubert’s music.

The concert will be part of a special Schubert weekend that will also include a recital featuring Schubert’s great song cycle Winterreise performed by baritone Paul Rowe and pianist Martha Fischer on January 27 at 7:30 pm, also in Collins Recital Hall.

In both concerts, the audience will be able to hear the beautiful 1820s-style Viennese fortepiano, newly acquired by the School of Music. The piano was built especially for the School of Music by Rodney Regier, who is internationally known for his modern copies of keyboard instruments from the 18th through the first decades of the 19th centuries. The sound of this instrument is perfect for Schubert, and provides opportunities to hear the kind of piano that Schubert himself would have heard and played.

The two concerts are also related in another way. Following the Friday evening performance of Winterreise, the Sunday Schubertiade will feature solo piano pieces, piano duets, and lieder from the “Winterreise” years–not only 1827, when Schubert composed the cycle, but also the years before and after in 1826 and 1828–when we find both premonitions and echoes of Schubert’s great “Winter Journey.”

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