Vetta Chamber Music’s director, Joan Blackman, explains her love for this upcoming concert:
“In my mind, Mozart and Schubert go together like ice cream and chocolate sauce! The E flat Major Piano Quartet was written just after Mozart’s opera Marriage of Figaro, and it has plenty of wit and virtuosity with an especially beautiful slow movement.
I can’t think of a better way to end a season, which is all about the human heart, than with the Schubert Trout Quintet. This happy, burbling piece, composed during a vacation in the Alps, was surely composed for friends to play in an intimate setting, in other words, a “Schubertiade. The writing is conversational. There is little angst, and when there is it dissolves back to effervescent joy. I do have to give you a warning though; you may be stuck with ear worms as you head home. Perhaps the only remedy is to peruse next season’s brochure (available at this concert) and start humming in anticipation!”
Program: Franz Schubert | Fantasia in F minor, D.940 (Op. posth. 103)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Quartet in E flat major, K 493
Franz Schubert | Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“Trout”)
Angela Cheng, piano; Alvin Chow, piano; Joan Blackman, violin; Jacob van der Sloot, viola; Zoltan Rozsnyai, cello
Meaghan Williams, bass
Dates
2:00 pm, Fri. April 26
West Point Grey United Church
7:30pm, Sat. April 27
West Vancouver United Church
2:00 pm, Sun. April 28
Pyatt Hall, Vancouver
2:30pm, Mon. April 29
ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island
Tickets: https://www.vtixonline.com/schubertiade-with-angela-cheng/