Schubertreise blog

Back in action

After the long wait (we last performed in December 2019), Michel Stas and myself will be returning to the National Concert Hall, Dublin...

The year that's in it

The covid scythe has cut a destructive path through all of the Schubert recitals planned for 2020: three in the National Concert hall,...

Ad-libbing, and where it can lead

Adepts of our recitals will know that I insist on introducing the songs. I do this to inform the audience while putting them at their...

RIP Walther Dürr

Walther Dürr, the editor of the complete Schubert songs for the Bärenreiter edition, died last February. He did not live to see the...

You get to choose

Taking time out from the standard Schubertreise formula, Michel and I will presenting his new idea at next Sunday's aperitive concert in...

Downs and ups: Farewell to Jodoigne, farewell to Bever

Well, a journey is not all plain sailing, if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor. Both our venues in Belgium, Bever and Jodoigne, have gone...

Schubert and rhetoric

While the best Schubert songs tend to be those with an obsessional musical idea driving forward the central argument (Die Junge Nonne,...

Pawnbroken and uncatalogued

Preparations for Schubertreise XX in Dublin on April 23rd next are in full swing. Yet another lengthy ballad, this time a setting of...

The longest song, and other trumpery matters

At 25 minutes 'Adelwold und Emma', a tale of knightly derring-do, is Schubert's longest song, and forms the backbone to our next recital...

A nerdy memorization technique

Those of you in the loop will not have failed to notice that there has been no recital activity of any kind since our last performance in...