The Ways of Water

Doors open at 19:00

Concert starts at 19:30

Performers:

Coraline Groen – violin Santa Vižine – viola Joris van den Berg – cello Nicholas Schwartz – double bass Anna Fedorova – piano

Program:

F. Schubert, Trout Quintet

A. Fedorova, Free Dive

B. Fedorov, Amarcord, Childhood Memories

B. Smetana, The Moldau

The four works in The Ways of Water trace the many ways music can evoke water and memory: from a playful, living presence, through an immersive underwater world and the recollection of childhood, to a river that carries us through changing landscapes.

Franz Schubert – Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, “The Trout”

Schubert’s much-loved quintet takes its nickname from the song Die Forelle, whose lively melody returns in a set of variations. Its unusual combination of piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass gives the music a distinctive warmth and buoyancy. Rippling piano figures, dancing rhythms and the famous variations bring the image of a trout darting through clear water vividly to life.

Anna Fedorova – Free Dive

In this new work, Anna Fedorova invites us beneath the surface. Free Dive offers a contemporary counterpart to Schubert’s sparkling stream: a musical plunge into the depth, mystery and shifting colours of the underwater world.

B. Fedorov – Amarcord, Childhood Memories

Amarcord, meaning “I remember,” brings a personal and nostalgic images from the composers upbringings in Samara, on the Volga River. Its evocation of sounds from the river remembered from childhood come back to life

Bedřich Smetana – The Moldau (Vltava)

Smetana’s celebrated musical portrait follows the river Vltava from its small sources through the Bohemian countryside towards Prague. In this version for strings, flowing melodies, rippling textures and surging currents evoke the river’s changing moods and the landscapes along its course.

Together, these pieces offer three perspectives on water: its playful movement, its hidden depths and its immense, onward flow.

Our beautiful Steinway is on loan from the Netherlands Musical Instrument Foundation.