Beethoven & Schubert

For the second of their three appearances this season, baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Simon Lepper perform Schubert’s profoundly moving, posthumously assembled and published song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan Song). To open the program, pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist William Hagen, and cellist Peter Stumpf play one of Beethoven’s most extraordinary works: the groundbreaking Archduke Trio, written toward the end of the composer’s famous “heroic” era. 

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, Archduke 

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang, D. 957 

Benjamin Appl, baritone; Kirill Gerstein, Simon Lepper, piano; William Hagen, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello 

Approximate length: 2 hours