Venue, Timing and Cost
The final concert in James Lisney's exploration of Schubert’s eleven completed piano sonatas.
Concert IV.
Franz Schubert
Sonata in a, D 784
Sonata in E flat, D 568
Sonata in D, D 850
In the summer of 1823, after the first manifestation of his venereal disease, Schubert wrote the poem Mein Gebet, in which he expressed a longing for the comfort of death; the first songs of Die Schöne Mullerin and the A Minor Sonata reflect his troubled mind. Two years later, he travelled to Gastein and Salzburg– the summer of the ‘Great’ C major Symphony and the extrovert Sonata in D. The Sonata in E flat is a version of the Sonata in D flat, D 567 that Schubert is thought to have revisited during 1825/26.
SJE Arts International Piano Series
Further Information
Tickets available from http://www.sje-oxford.org/events/tickets or Oxford Playhouse, tel 01865 305305.
SJE Arts, St John the Evangelist church, 109A Iffley Road, Oxford, OX4 1EH
On Iffley Road between Marston Street and James Street, opposite the University Sports Ground. Bus No. 3 from the city centre stops directly outside.