Concerts
February 17
Schubert & Britten
Songs of Love and Peace

— Melinda Bargreen, Seattle Times
Tenor
Horn
Cello
Piano
Program
Franz Schubert:
Four songs for voice and piano
“Der Musensohn”
“An die Laute”
“Ganymed”
“Du bist die Ruh”
Benjamin Britten:
Canticle I, op. 40, “My beloved is mine and I am his” for tenor and piano
Felix Mendelssohn:
Variations concertantes, op. 17, for cello and piano
Imogen Holst:
“The fall of the leaf” for solo cello
Benjamin Britten:
Canticle III, op. 55, “Still falls the rain” for tenor, horn, and piano
Franz Schubert:
“Auf dem Strom” for tenor, horn, and piano
“Zach Finkelstein brought a refined elegance to his interpretation.”
— Vancouver Observer
Program Notes
Schubert spent all of his short life in Vienna during an especially repressive period in the history of that city. There he surrounded himself with poets, actors, and political dissidents. The distinguished musicologist Maynard Solomon has made a convincing if controversial case for a homosexual Schubert with an attraction to male youths. While suffering severe illness, likely from syphilis and the resultant mercury poisoning, he composed some of the most ecstatically beautiful music of all time.