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.