Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in C major 'Reliquie' D. 840
1825

Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
completion to movements III + IV
1921

Released in anticipation of the film by the same name, Reliquie is a new album made in collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Anderson and dramaturge Diana Wyenn.

In it, we tell the story and document a performance of this curious and hybrid work which was left unfinished at the time of Franz Schubert's death. Subsequently, composer Ernst Krenek wrote a completion in the 1920s while he was residing in Berlin (in the style of Schubert !) and in our performance documentation we see it come to life in the 2020s, filmed on location at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California on an antique Steinway & Sons from the 1870s, an instrument manufactured mere decades after Schubert's passing.

View Reliquie · a Sonata by Franz Schubert & Ernst Krenek in the digital garden.