Feb. 13, 2025 - 7:30pm
(doors open 6:45pm)
"Schubertiade" with
Laura Dabels (piano)
"Schubertiade" - painting by Julius Schmid
"Schubertiaden"
The first Schubertiade took place on January 26, 1821 and was a highly acclaimed house concert in Vienna at which Franz Schubert performed his works on the piano in front of a circle of artists and friends.
To this day, Schubertiades take place regularly as concerts or festivals in several countries in honor of the great composer Franz Schubert.
Laura Dabels began playing the piano at the age of 4 and later studied at the Rostock University of Music and Drama before completing her studies with Prof. Konstatin Scherbakov at the University of the Arts in Zurich.
During this time, she won the “Münchner Klavierpodium der Jugend” and 1st prize at the international piano competition “Piano Talents” in Milano.
Laura is also active as a chamber musician (piano trio and cello&piano duo) and has won prizes at the Kiwanis Club Zurich competition and the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition. In 2017, the trio was invited to perform at various Swiss festivals and was a finalist in the “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes”.
program
piano piece No.2 e-flat major D946/2
A masterpiece that Schubert wrote in the last year of his life and an example of the emotional power that he also showed in his instrumental works.
piano sonata c-minor D950
Euphoria and despair, mysterious calm and rousing energy - all this can be found in Schubert's last three piano sonatas, including this C minor Sonata. And all this is outshone by an addictive beauty that speaks to the heart in every note.
12 German Dances D790
Schubert's rich oeuvre also includes 450 dances - no wonder in the dance-loving Vienna of his time.
Wanderer fantasy D760
As with many of Schubert's works, a poem is the source of his creativity. The poem turns into a song, which then becomes a powerful piano fantasy. It suggests the intensity of the experience of nature, but above all the metaphor of the wanderer as a loner, as a wanderer - as a symbol of the alienated, insecure man of the early 19th century - not unlike Schubert himself.