Events

The Carey Concert: Charles Fisk, piano

Music of Schubert and Schumann

In a program that complements his course “Schubert, Schumann, and the Lyric Impulse,” pianist and Phyllis Henderson Professor of Music Charles Fisk performs Schubert’s two very different sonatas in A major, and, between them, Robert Schumann’s “Kreisleriana.” The earlier of the Schubert sonatas, composed in 1819, shares with the “Trout” Quintet, of the same year and in the same key, a charmed lyricism and a play of light and shadow. In the later sonata, completed only a month before Schubert’s untimely death in 1828, the play of light and shadow has become an existential struggle against darkness and alienation, in which the music [winds?wins] its way to lyrical fulfillment only in the concluding rondo. Schumann’s piano cycles owe their inspiration, at least in part, to Schubert’s song cycles. “Kreisleriana,” whose title refers to Johannes Kreisler, the moody violinist alter ego of writer and composer E. T. A. Hoffmann, encompasses the greatest imaginable range of moods, from the most agitated, obsessive, and violent to the most tender and intimate.

This event is free and open to the public.  We are wheelchair accessible:  If you have questions or concerns regarding this issue, please call James Wice, Director of Disability Services at 781-283-2434.