Program:

Polina Nazaykinskaya --- "Ricercare Égaré" (Portugal premiere)

Franz Schubert --- Piano Sonata in A major D.959

This program is a dialogue across two centuries which navigating us from labyrinths of memory and grief to the final, transcendent Solace.

The journey begins with Polina Nazaykinskaya’s Ricercare Égaré ("The Lost Search"), a soul-wandering tone poem full of haunting and displaced beauty. Its intricate labyrinths of mind and crystalline texture share the same spirit of seeking light within melancholy with Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 that follows.

This Sonata D.959 represents the ultimate wandering spirit through vast landscape of human emotion. It provides the resolution that Polina’s straying melody seeks.

Together, this program creates a “Complete” journey from being lost to the reassurance and confronting resolution when it finally arrives.