ICYMI: Schubert Now feat. Ammiel Bushakevitz

14 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube excerpt titled "ICYMI: Schubert Now feat. Ammiel Bushakevitz" (created 2026-01-14). It contains an English interview-style excerpt with concert pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz discussing a collaborative Schubert recording project with a colleague named Samuel—two albums completed and a third, titled "Hoffnung (Hope)," due early next year—tracing Schubert's songs from the last five years of his life (including a 2023 release of Die schöne Müllerin) and noting the 200th‑anniversary timing. The clip ends with a short promo urging viewers to watch the full conversation on YouTube or listen on podcast platforms and to follow The Piano Pod.

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Samuel and I have known each other for many years, and as you say, he's a wonderful, wonderful baritone and wonderful lead interpreter. Actually, during COVID I jumped in for a concert and that was our first performance together. And it just, it just went so well and we enjoyed it so much that we decided to do a recording project together. And we discussed various possibilities and unknown composers and maybe repertoire that's been neglected and In the end we thought, well, why not Schubert, which has been of course recorded a lot. But there's still, as with great works of art, there's always something new and always new nourishment and something to discover, new ways to approach it, new ways to shine different lighting on the songs. Yeah, so we're very excited about it. We're two discs, down, or 2 albums, and the 3rd album is coming out early next year. It's called Hoffnung, Hope. It's very fitting for the time and the place in which we find each— we find ourselves in, in, in the world in general. Also, it's 200 years since Schubert wrote these songs, so for us it's almost like a journey together with Schubert during his last years, which is very special and unique. We're following Schubert consecutively through the last 5 years of his life. So 1823, he wrote Die schöne Müllerin, and we brought out the album of that piece in 2023. And so next year will be 2000— well, this, this broadcast will be in 2026. And we will release songs from 1826, so exactly 200 years previously.
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