festival

Carte Blanche Concert I

Schubert’s Winterreise: Randall Scarlata and Gilbert Kalish

Sunday, July 25
2:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Renowned American baritone Randall Scarlata makes his Music@Menlo debut with one of the signposts of the lieder repertoire, Franz Schubert’s magnificent Winterreise (Winter Journey). The poetic wanderlust of this definitive work by the Romantic master adds a contemplative dimension to the 2010 festival season’s regional focus. Composed in the penultimate year of Schubert’s life, this cycle of twenty-four songs on poems by the German lyric poet Wilhelm Müller encompasses a profound breadth of human emotion. Randall Scarlata appears with pianist Gilbert Kalish, one of the foremost art song interpreters of our time.

PROGRAM

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Winterreise (Winter Journey), D. 911 (1827)

A preconcert discussion and poetry reading led by Patrick Castillo will be held at 12:00 p.m. (Martin Family Hall, Menlo School).