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Migration

18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Maria João Pires

Sunday, 6 August 2023, Saanen Church

Chamber Music

Sunday, 6 August 2023
6 pm, Saanen Church

This is one of Schubert's major cycles, a truly spiritual testament: that of the “Wanderer” – the solitary wanderer, an iconic figure of German Romanticism – seized by fatigue and doubt in the cold of the (poetic) winter, for whom happiness is but memories and illusions. A global work in which the Viennese musician, at death's door himself, displays the full extent of his genius for Lieder – his repertoire par excellence – and which, for any performer, represents a kind of Holy Grail. With Matthias Goerne and Maria João Pires, exceptional Schubertians, we have two artists worthy of taking up the challenge of this overwhelming march towards the abyss.

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Matthias Goerne, Baritone
Maria João Pires, Piano 

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 
“Die Winterreise”, song cycle to poems by Wilhelm Müller, Op. 89, D 91170'
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