Schubert
For its 11th season, Brooklyn Art Song Society celebrates the legacy of the first and greatest composer of Lieder. Five programs of over 100 songs show the brilliance, emotional breadth, and profound beauty of Schubert’s musical voice
Schubert will be recorded live at the Soapbox Gallery in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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Bonus Concert
Streaming Saturday 12/12/20 7:30PM
This program includes some of Schubert’s greatest hits not featured in the mainstage series.
V: Schwanengesang
Streaming Saturday 3/13/21 7:30PM
Even though it was the last year of Schubert’s life, 1828 brought some of the composer’s most joyful masterpieces like The Shepherd on the Rock, as well as his final collection of songs, Schwanengesang.
IV. Liebe
Streaming Saturday 2/13/21 7:30PM
Schubert’s music captures every possible facet of being in love: the flirtations of young romance, the despair of heartbreak, and the bittersweetness of loss.
III. Winterreise
Streaming Saturday 1/16/21 7:30PM
Schubert’s magnum opus is a profound statement on loneliness and human suffering. But even while facing his own mortality Schubert found aching beauty in darkness with this masterful cycle.
II. Nacht
Streaming Saturday 11/14/20 7:30PM
For Schubert, Night was at once a place of terror and wonder, of passion and repose, and the inspiration for some of the composer’s greatest songs.
I. Die schöne Müllerin
Streaming Saturday 10/10/20 7:30PM
This groundbreaking story-in-song is a touching meditation on young love and heartbreak- a landmark in the history of Lieder.