Word: schubertã
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...solitary traveler wanders aimlessly, love-sick and world-weary, every object and place reminding him of his lost love and impending death. Such is the stuff of Franz Schubert??s Winterreise, surely the most beloved of song-cycles and one of the greatest challenges a singer can take on. The marriage of Wilhelm Müller’s 24 poems and Schubert??s evocative music is one of the defining moments of German Romanticism. It takes a singer with just the right amount of assuredness and vulnerability to pull it off successfully...
...exchange student in France, I used to listen to Schubert??s chamber music while setting the table for dinner. “Turn it off!” my host mother finally demanded one day. “We don’t live in a candy store...
...concert comprised two well-chosen pieces, Schumann’s Trio No. I in D minor, a relentlessly shape-shifting work, and Schubert??s Trio in E-flat Major, Opus 100, which was Schumann’s inspiration. Both works demand virtuoso performances from each player, but provide ample opportunities for the trio to showcase their famous ability to cooperate...
After rather thunderous ovations, the trio performed for two encores, the concert’s highlights. Dismissing Schubert??s sweetness, Pressler called the audience “back to earth” by playing the frenzied scherzo of Shostakovich’s second piano trio. After this outburst of energy, Pressler then returned listeners “back to heaven” with the slow movement of Beethoven’s Trio No. 11. Arguing for Beethoven’s status as a romantic, the trio played with some of the maudlin expressivity that the previous performances...
Boston listened when the piano trio began playing Franz Schubert??s Piano Trio in B-flat in the stately Cabot House Living Room yesterday afternoon...