The Firm to Present a Performance by Marianna Grynchuk of Schubert and Glass, 8/5

Local chamber music promoters, The Firm, present their second concert in this year's series featuring the work of the great romantic composer Franz Schubert.

Following the exquisite vocal and piano concert earlier this year, The Firm present Schubert's late miraculous triptych of piano sonatas beginning with a performance of the Sonata in C minor D.958.

Completed in September 1828, just six weeks before Schubert's death at 31, the C minor Sonata is renowned for its intensity, characteristically tender lyricism and what Schumann so famously described as Schubert's "heavenly" length.

Remarkable young piano virtuoso Marianna Grynchuk will bring this rarely locally performed sonata to life alongside works by Philip Glass and Firm directors Raymond Chapman Smith and Quentin Grant on Monday, August 5 at 8 p.m. in Elder Hall.

Excerpts from Glass's 'Metamorphosis' cycle will accompany all three Schubert sonatas in this year's season drawing a connection between Glass's fingerprint harmonic language and gradually unfolding repetitions which echo, through an intriguingly distanced lens, vital elements of Schubert's manner.

Conceived and composed in the same Minimalistically infused era, Quentin Grant's 'Cold Variations' (1988) and Raymond Chapman Smith's 'Untitled: Ultramarine' (1990) both pay homage to Schubert who has been, since its inception, a permanent if posthumous Member of the Firm Board.

Future concerts in the series will feature: Schubert's Sonata in A major performed by Clemens Leske (October 7) and the Sonata in Bb performed by Leigh Harrold (November 4). Tenor Robert Macfarlane will return from Germany to unveil Schubert's 'Wanderer' song cycle on September 2.

Program details are available at www.firmmusic.com.au. All concerts will be held in Elder Hall at 8 p.m. on August 5, September 2, October 7, November 4. Tickets cost $12 ($7 conc), available at the door or www.trybooking.com/CWCO. Secondary and tertiary music students receive complimentary tickets at the door.