SANDRINE PIAU / LEONKORO QUARTET - BETWEEN WORLDS

In Between Worlds, UNLTD brings together two visions separated by two centuries: that of Franz Schubert, whose music explores the many facets of human existence – youthful ecstasy, the solitude of the wanderer and the quiet acceptance of death – and that of David Lang, who extends this reflection into the present day. The evening opens with three of Schubert’s Lieder – Ganymed, Wandrers Nachtlied and Der Tod und das Mädchen – performed by Sandrine Piau and Pedja Mužijević. By turns radiant, contemplative and deeply moving, they trace a journey in which nature, silence and mortality are intimately intertwined.

With death speaks, David Lang draws on Schubert’s texts to give Death a voice of its own. Scored for voice, piano and string trio, the work suspends time through music of striking simplicity and emotional intensity. For its Verbier premiere, Sandrine Piau is joined by Pedja Mužijević, Jonathan Schwarz, Germain Umdenstock and members of the Leonkoro Quartet to reveal the work’s haunting beauty.

Schubert returns in a compelling arrangement of Erlkönig for voice and string quartet before the Leonkoro Quartet brings the evening full circle with Schubert’s String Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden, one of the masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire. Moving between Lied, contemporary music and an enduring classic, Between Worlds creates a powerful dialogue between past and present, revealing how music continues to illuminate our understanding of life, death and everything that lies between.