This program is about melancholy and reminiscing. Schubert believed that music is always melancholic, regardless of what it expresses or tells. His "Fantasy for Two Pianists" illustrates this idea in an elusive twilight that resonates beneath the surface. Arvo Pärt's music, in its simple, repetitive patterns, always seeks an essence, the eternal values of an old world that all his music evokes. Melancholy and the search for the essence at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.