Schubert 1824/1825: “Licht und Schatten” (Light and Shadow)

With his reputation in Vienna steadily growing, Schubert was now at the height of his artistic powers. Yet 1824 was perhaps the most miserable year of his entire life. His friends had left Vienna and he was depressed and feeling the effects of his physical illness: “I feel like the most unfortunate and miserable person in the world. Imagine a person whose health will never improve and who, out of despair, keeps making things worse instead of better. Imagine a man whose brightest hopes have been dashed and ask yourself whether this is not the most miserable man on earth?” The year 1825, however, brought light into Schubert’s life. During the summer he traveled with his friend Vogl throughout Austria and felt his abilities and hopes returning. (S. Hasselhorn)

Samuel Hasselhorn – Baritone, winner of many competitions (Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Hugo Wolf Stuttgart, Nadia and Lilli Boulanger Competition Paris) triumphed with the First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2018. Hasselhorn is now a member of the Vienna State Opera, where he has performed leading roles in Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Elisir d’amore, Ariadne auf Naxos, Turandot, Fidelio etc. Recent: the Schubert Prize received in 2021, together with Alfred Brendel, from the Franz Schubert Association of Barcelona and the Caecilia Prize in 2020 in Belgium for the CD “Stille Liebe”, best lieder album of the year. Together with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, from autumn 2023 until the end of 2028, Samuel Hasselhorn will be travelling with Harmonia Mundi through the last five years of Franz Schubert’s life (project “Schubert200”): a 5-CD recording of Lieder that were composed exactly 200 years ago.

Ammiel Bushakevitz – Piano, student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Edison Fellow of the British Library in 2014, First Prize and Schubert Lieder Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition (London 2013), is recognized as one of the leading lieder accompanists of his generation.

Tickets are on sale online at 2tickets.it, at Gabbia Dischi, via Dante 8 (Padova) and at the Auditorium Pollini box office on the evening of the concert. Tickets starting from €5 (Conservatory and Unipd students) are on sale only at the concert box office.

Open Rehearsal at 10:30 for more info: https://www.amicimusicapadova.org/