Name: Adieu Robert Schumann – Schafer
Start: 2024-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Victoria Symphony

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Victoria Symphony

Conductor

Holly Mathieson

Orchestra

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Allyson McHardy

Pianist

Robert Holliston

Adieu Robert Schumann – Schafer

Victoria

Canada

Adieu Robert Schumann – Schafer: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52 Schumann (+2 More)

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Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52

Adieu Robert Schumann

Rendering

Juan Sebastián Cáceres Lara

Approved

In the wake of his marriage to Clara Wieck, music poured out of Robert Schumann’s pen, including the three “symphonic” gems that open this program. A dozen years later, Clara’s diaries detailed her heart-rending reaction to her husband’s descent into madness, as depicted in Schafer’s moving monodrama featuring mezzo soprano Allyson McHardy. Schubert left several of his works “Unfinished” in his short life, but a fragmentary Symphony in D major provided the 19th century framework for Luciano Berio’s 20th century Rendering of what Schubert had in mind.

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