Schubert’s final collection of lieder - Swansong at UQ

Classical music lovers whose schedule allows for weekday daytime concerts - join me for this free presentation if you have time. A baritone and a pianist give us some of Schubert's songs on a Thursday afternoon.

12:20 pm coffee.
I will be at the Merlot Cafe in the Great Court of the St Lucia Campus of the University of Queensland, from 12:20pm for coffee and cake. There are little tables and chairs under a tree there,
(which is near the Great Court entrance to the Central Library, Duhig building 12A.) Then I'll head down to the Music Building at about 12:45pm.

Schubert’s final collection of lieder was published posthumously under the title Schwanengesang (Swan Song). With settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab and Heinrich Heine, Schwanengesang is effectively two small cycles in one. It includes some of Schubert’s most beautiful and powerful songs, such as Am Meer, Der Doppelgänger and the famous Ständchen (Serenade). In addition, the cycle’s publisher, Tobias Haslinger, threw in a “bonus track”—Die Taubenpost, supposedly the very last song Schubert wrote. Join the School of Music’s Shaun Brown and Simon Perry as they explore this undeservedly less performed sibling to Schubert’s other great cycles.