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• Sun

  29

  Jan

  2023

  Schubertiade: The Winterreise Years

  3pm

  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.”

  Streaming live here