I created this work for the sheer fun of it, using the unique and wonderful Russell Oberlin as narrator; my recording of Schubert’s DIE FORELLE for vocal quartet with piano, plus odds and ends of rough videos and stills left over from BLACK ON BLACK /13.
The recording of Schubert’s DIE FORELLE grew out of SCHUBERT MAL VIER, a Lark Ascending production. It was my idea to score Schubert’s lieder for vocal quartet, taking my cue from Schubert himself, who re-arranged DIE FORELLE (“The Trout”) for piano quintet and another lied, DER TOD UND DAS MÄDCHEN (“Death and the Maiden”), for string quartet. It needed only the multi-talented Richard Duncan to do the arranging as well as conducting and accompanying.
SCHUBERT MAL VIER was presented live at the Austrian Cultural Forum with vocalists Shirley Perkins, Nicole Hyde, Alex Guerrero, and Petert Ludwig and again at the German Consulate in the spring of 2006 to overflowing houses.
