Kendall PhiloMusica August 3 2025

Kendall PhiloMusica August 3 2025 - SCHUBERTIADE

1 pm Pre-Concert Talk - Identity and Difference (Romanticism da Capo)

2 pm Performance

Many of the 600 songs that Franz Schubert wrote have become so well known that they almost qualify as ‘pop’ songs. On 3rd August a chamber concert led by violinist Goetz Richter will present a program of songs which have been transcribed for different arrangements of instruments where no singer will be heard. The program will feature the famous ‘Trout’ quintet which was the catalyst for the novel An Equal Music (1999) by Vikram Seth. Other transcriptions are taken from the two wonderful cycles – Die Schöne Müllerin (The Lovely Miller’s Daughter), and Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) as well as some other beloved melodies. Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) is one of the best loved song cycles and comprises twenty-four songs with poems written by Wilhelm Müller. The music is so wonderful that the songs can survive without the voice and text evidenced by these transcriptions for solo piano.

The program will be introduced in a philosophical pre-concert talk by Goetz Richter at 1 pm which discusses the ideas of identity and difference, their conception and relationship.

Goetz Richter will be joined by Jeanell Carrigan (piano) and Minah Choe (cello) both well known to Kendall audiences and we will welcome Conservatorium musicians Harry Young (double bass) and Pascal Uxo Williams (viola)

The program for the afternoon

Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blumen”, D. 802, (Arranged for piano and violin.)

Song arrangements for cello and piano (arranged F. A. Kummer) (Auf dem Wasser zu Singen, Das Wandern, Mein)

Selections from Die Winterreise for solo piano (arranged Rob. Wittmann

Serenade (arranged for viola and piano by Ryan O'Farrell)

Piano Quintet “Trout” in A major, D. 667, op. 11