Folio Presents Franz Schubert’s 'Winterreise'
$20 ($15 Folio members)
Clayton Brainerd, baritone
Judith Cohen, piano
Franz Schubert – Winterreise, D. 911
A Schubertiade evening, with complimentary Viennese food and wine. Franz Schubert’s beloved song cycle Winterreise ("Winter Journey") is one of the most esteemed art-song stories ever composed, and Schubert is the master and inventor of the form. True to the spirit of these performances, Folio will have wine and pastries before and after the program, as well as some discussion of the poems that are the basis of the cycle and the singer’s experience in song recitals.
Baritone Clayton Brainerd, a Portland native, appears in major opera houses and with major orchestras all over the world. In addition to opera, he is a specialist in lieder or art songs.
Pianist Judith Cohen, a regular performer at Folio, is the director of several local groups – including one specializing in art song and the Governors’ Mansion chamber music series.