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Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorák and Richard Strauss were on the tour’s docket — nothing written in the last 125 years.

Santa Monica High School’s Chamber Orchestra brought a lovely, lyric sheen to Mahler’s string orchestra arrangement of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet.

This flowed into the rhapsodic lyricism of late Schubert, his substantial Fantasia in F Minor.

One minute, it’s Schubert; another it’s Satie-esque, and many more South African splendor.

His latest solo recording, released in November, contains Brahms’ First Piano Sonata, Liszt arrangements of Schubert songs and Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasy.”