Event Concerts and Performances Mark Padmore, Tenor & Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
Date and Location
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When: Friday, March 18, 2022
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
This event will be livestreamed on YouTube External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.
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Where: Online Only
Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress
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Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida forge a partnership of formidable artistry and rare insight in this performance of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. One of a number of masterworks written near the end of the composer’s life, including his string quintet D. 956 and the three late piano sonatas, the 24-song cycle traces the harrowing winter journey of a wanderer confronting an existential abyss of loneliness and longing for a lost love. Wilhelm Müller’s poems become an anguished soliloquy, a monodrama in which the singer must travel “a road by which no one has ever returned.” In this magisterial reading of the cycle, the enigmatic final song Der Leiermann may suggest a faint vision of redemption: perseverance—and the possibility of hope.
Part of our celebration marking the 225th anniversary of Schubert’s birth.
Presented in cooperation with Wigmore Hall.