IN SCHUBERT'S COMPANY
Musicians:
Maxim Rysanov, viola and conductor
Sinfonietta Rīga
Programme
Franz Schubert Polonaise in B flat major, D580
Leonid Desyatnikov “Wie der alte Leierman”
Sergey Akhunov “Der Erlkönig”
Dobrinka Tabakova “Fantasy Homage to Schubert”
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 (“Unfinished”)
Oh, if only we had a chance to have a peep at Schubert’s apartment with his famous candle-light, wine and music night parties attended by the most buoyant Viennese people of the time – with one of the guests playing the enigmatic instrument arpeggione, while another one impersonating a street organ player... And there he is – a slight, bespectacled man whose mind is crammed with brilliant ideas and the ideas are bound to outlive the man himself, and a world-famous violist, named Maxim, mixes Schubert’s ideas with modern scores. In that very moment all of us, my dear friends, realize we are bound to leave for home so uplifted.
Foto: Laszlo Emmer ©