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POSTPONED Mitsuko Uchida All-Schubert Program at Carnegie Hall (Site)
Tuesday April 30, 2019, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This concert has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date, to be announced by late April 2019. Concertgoers should retain their tickets, pending confirmation of the new date. Any additional questions may be directed to CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800.
Performer
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
All-Schubert Program
Piano Sonata in A Minor, D. 784
Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, D. 568
Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959
There’s melody, melancholy, and perhaps a touch of madness in the two late Schubert sonatas framing a gentle early work. The Sonata in A Minor, likely written when the composer learned of the gravity of his venereal disease, is a dark-hued journey from its disconsolate opening to jittery finale. The Sonata in A Major flows with some of Schubert’s most fetching melodies, but the rampaging scales, trills, and clusters that interrupt a tender second-movement theme suggest nightmare or hallucination—perhaps Schubert’s cry of misery from the effects of disease.