Katharina Ruckgaber, Marcus Farnsworth,
Sholto Kynoch & Mar Compte

“Oh Mozart, immortal Mozart,” Schubert wrote in a diary entry. We know that the composer fell in love with Die Zauberflöte the moment he saw it in Vienna, immersing himself in the music of the Salzburg composer throughout his life. Mozart became a constant inspiration for Schubert's Romantic music, which simultaneously drew from the Classicism it was beginning to transcend. Time and again, we hear echoes and even direct quotations of Mozart in Schubert's songs. Despite this, the direct relationship between the two composers and this musical influence has rarely been explored in the way proposed by Sholto Kynoch—pianist and director of Oxford Lieder—in this program alongside Katharina Ruckgaber and Marcus Farnsworth, who are making their debut at LIFE Victoria. LIFE New Artist Mar Compte will also participate to perform, together with Kynoch, the overture to Die Zauberflöte in Zemlinsky's arrangement for four hands. A dialogue between Schubert's songs and Mozart's opera arias, some of a Lieder-like simplicity, will reveal the connecting vessels between these two musical geniuses.