Schubert's Octet with Janine Jansen

Star violinist Janine Jansen invites you to an evening entirely devoted to Schubert's magnificent octet at Musikaliska Kvarteret in Stockholm.

With these lines, most Swedes have probably approached Franz Schubert’s Octet in F major. The text is the opening phrases of the song Du går an (You will do) from beloved Swedish comedians Hasse and Tages’ revue Spader, Madame! from 1969. The revue was full of satirical lyrics, all to the tunes of various works by Franz Schubert, with Monica Zetterlund’s Donna Juanita (melody: second movement of the sixth symphony) as the main surviving number. Grynet Molvig and Tage Danielsson perform the sharp text in Du går an to notes taken from the fourth movement of the octet.

And the music is certainly suitable for a love duet, as sunny as it is. The basic mood of the entire octet is bright and clear, even though most of the works Schubert wrote at the same time in his life had a tragic and melancholic tone. The fact that he had been afflicted with syphilis, the painful disease that would lead to his death, is said to have been a contributing factor to this. “Every night when I fall asleep I hope I will not wake up again, and every morning I am reminded only of the misfortune of the previous day,” Schubert wrote in a letter the same year he composed the Octet in F major.

Tickets

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