Starting with Schubert's well-known songs, a fascinating project has emerged. Father and son bring the improvisational element back into the music of an era when the written word, or rather the written note, was practically sacred.
"Above all, we had an encounter with the complexity of Schubert's song output in mind. We want to show that boundaries can overlap," says Julian Prégardien. And they do here—whether the songs were conceived as duets from the outset or the new arrangements allow the emergence of an inherent "other self, a polyphonic being" within the music. The result is a series of very delicate, thoughtful, improvisational, and communicative arrangements for two voices of similar timbre, in which the idea of the one, universal human voice seems to manifest itself with particular intensity.
Selected songs by Franz Schubert will be performed.
