Looking for Schubert

A must see performance: Sinfonietta Rīga will be conducted by a musician who is so much loved and far too little seen here, in Latvia – it is Maxim Rysanov, one of the leading violists in the world. There is the immortal Schubert on the list along with modern variations on his congenial music.

If only we had a chance to have a peek in Schubert’s apartment back then – when his “nights” with candles, wine and music were held there and gathered the most buoyant public of Vienna: somebody would play the mysterious instrument arpeggione, another one dressed up as organ-grinder… A small, bespectacled man is there blending in with the crowd, and his mind is full of brilliant ideas, and the ideas are doomed to last much longer than the small man himself; and here is a world-famous violist, called Maxim, who makes Schubert’s ideas go so well with the scores by composers of today, that all of us, my dear audience, can’t help feeling wonderfully refreshed and filled with great joy. 

Programme

Franz Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, arranged for viola and strings by Dobrinka Tabakova
Sergey Ahkunov 6:36 in Schubert’s company
Franz Schubert Polonaise for Violin and orchestra (arranged for viola by Maxim Rysanov) 
Leonid Desyatnikov Wie der alte Leiermann for viola and strings
Dobrinka Tabakova Fantasy Homage for strings
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B flat major D 485

Participants

Soloist (viola) and leader Maxim Rysanov
Sinfonietta Rīga