Celebrate Schubert’s birthday with Turner Sims – from your Sofa. We celebrate Schubert’s birthday on Sunday 31 January by revisiting one of our previous online concerts for one day only.
Originally recorded as a livestream at Turner Sims on Sunday 4 October, Professor David Owen Norris (Head of Classical Performance and Professor of Music) and the Jupiter Ensemble perform Schubert’s popular Trout Quintet in this exclusive performance.
Schubert wrote this masterpiece of the chamber repertoire when he was just 22. It got its name because the fourth movement is a set of variations on an earlier Schubert song called (funnily enough) The Trout. The song was originally a warning to young women against being ‘caught’ by ‘angling’ young men. But Schubert didn’t set the final lines of the poem, preferring to concentrate on evoking the image of the trout in water and the reaction to it being caught by a fisherman.
The concert will be available to watch here from 10am – 10pm on Sunday 31 January. Balloons and party hats completely optional! We hope you will join us.
