Archived Event

Bennett, Schubert and Thomas Larcher
Vienna Piano Trio; Mark Padmore tenor
Date
Mon 26 Jun 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Vienna Piano Trio
    • Mark Padmoretenor

    Programme

        • Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt (Gesänge des Harfners I) D478
        • Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass (Gesänge des Harfners III) D480
        • An die Türen will ich schleichen (Gesänge des Harfners II) D479

    Interval

    1. Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

    Overview

    Compassion runs as a theme throughout this concert,present in Schubert’s visionary response to Goethe’sGesänge des Harfners and in Richard RodneyBennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, works of searingexpressive power written for and dedicated to PeterPears. Schubert’s Second Piano Trio offers a gentlesummation of the composer’s compassionateengagement with life.

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