Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Der Wanderer D489 (1816)
Wehmut D772 (?1822-3)
Der Jüngling und der Tod D545 (1817)
Fahrt zum Hades D526 (1817)
Schatzgräbers Begehr D761 (1822)
Grenzen der Menschheit D716 (1821)
Das Heimweh D851 (1825)
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt (Gesänge des Harfners I) D478
(1816/1822)
Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass (Gesänge des Harfners II)
D480 (1816/1822)
An die Türen will ich schleichen (Gesänge des Harfners III)
D479 (1816/1822)
Pilgerweise D789 (1823)
Des Fischers Liebesglück D933 (1827)
Der Winterabend D938 (1828)
Abendstern D806 (1824)
Die Sommernacht D289 (1815)
Der liebliche Stern D861 (1825)

https://media.wigmore-hall.org.uk/documents/NEW_Programme_23_July_2024_730pm_FULL.pdf

Miracles do happen and usually only at the Wigmore Hall these days.
Matthias Goerne and Alexandre Kantorow two poets entwined with searing intensity and heart rending sensitivity as Schubert’s world for over an hour became ours.
Bewitched bothered and bewildered that such beauty can still exist ,we sat in awed silence as the hypnotic intensity of ‘Des Fischers Liebesgluck ‘ became almost unbearable.Tears have never been so beautifully described as in ‘Wer nie sein Brot mit Tranen ass ’ as ‘all guilt is avenged on earth’ .Or the brooding intensity in ‘A die Turen will ich schleichen’ as they ‘shed a tear and I’ll not know why they weep’. Has there ever been anything so beautiful on this stage as the whispered asides of ‘think of her and love’s happiness and sighed in silence and muse and muse’ of ‘Der Winterabend’ And finally as our two poets bid us farewell with ‘Der liebliche Stern’ as we ‘draw near to that lovely star’ and the genius of the short lived Schubert illuminates our lives for ever more .

Entwined music making as these two remarkable artists came to the end of their extraordinary journey together and embraced each other as we embraced them.

Love knows no bounds and music is its life’s blood.The Bard was always right !

Courtesy of BA cancelling my flight back home that I was able to witness this miracle tonight !

Alexandre Kantorow bestrides the Wigmore Hall like a Colossus.