Concert: 'Levensloop' Friday 10 october

Baritone Jasper Schweppe and fortepianist Riko Fukuda present a selection of songs from the oeuvre of Franz Schubert.

Program
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) wrote songs from a very young age that thematically relate to the life cycle of man or nature. Many songs are about the seasons, a life cycle in itself. Many songs are also lullabies for young or not so young children. Besides birth and childhood, death is, of course, also inextricably linked to life cycle and appears frequently in Schubert's work. Whether it concerns real people like a deceased friend or the deceased child in its father's arms, or as a metaphor for transience. A beautiful image of life cycle and transience is the one presented in "Vor meine Wiege" (Before my Cradle) D 927. A grown man stands before his old cradle and recalls how he lay there as a baby, completely protected by his mother. He longs for that peaceful comfort and wonders if he will perhaps only find it in his grave.

The concert starts at 8:15 PM.