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2020-07-06 04:19:00
Schubert: Trout Quintet (CD review)
[…] and double bass, not because that was a preferred arrangement of the time but because several musicians were coming together to play a quintet by Hummel, and Schubert figured he’d write something of his own for them to play. Christoph Eschenbach The work is known as the “Trout” because the fourth movement is a set of variations on Schubert's earlier song, “Die Forelle" ("The Trout"). Schubert wrote it at the request of Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy Austrian music patron and amateur cellist, who suggested that Schubert include a set of variations on the “Trout” song. The performers on this Avie disc are the Thymos Quartet, which includes Gabriel Richard, violin; Nicolas Carles, viola; Delphine Biron, cello; and Yann Dubost, double bass; with the addition, of course, of Eschenbach on piano. Eschenbach, whom one must assume had the greatest voice in the way the ensemble plays the quintet, keeps […]
2020-07-01 14:08:00
Anglais - Mozart in Salzburg - the changing faces of the local boy
[…] long been marked by a considerable effort to raise awareness of the diversity of Mozart's works, beyond those currently to be seen everywhere else. The first opera in the history of the festival, in 1921, was indeed by Mozart, but it was not one of the great operas mentioned above, but Bastien und Bastienne. This role of rediscovering Mozart's neglected works is not limited to opera, The Mozart Matinee series, premiered in 1949 by Bernhard Paumgartner and generally performed by the Mozarteum orchestra, did much for the rediscovery of the many (and exciting) serenades composed by Mozart before his departure for Vienna, but also, in vocal terms, for that of concert arias. The soloists are often young singers, but the names of Teresa Stich Randall, Lisa della Casa and Christa Ludwig can be found early on. In terms of opera, however, this mission of exploration is only belatedly undertaken. […]
2018-05-21 04:40:00
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet (CD review)
[…] and well focused, while others may see it as too big and close up. Like all things, one must give the recording a listen before forming an opinion about it. The album begins with the Piano Quintet in A major "The Trout" by Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828). He wrote it in the summer of 1819 while visiting the town of Steyr in the north of Austria. A wealthy music patron in the area, Sylvester Paumgartner, suggested the composer include in the music a set of variations based on his earlier song "Die Forelle" ("The Trout"). But apparently few people outside Schubert's friends and family ever heard the finished product in Schubert's lifetime since the work did not see publication until 1829, a year after the composer's death. Nevertheless, today practically every chamber group in the world has played and recorded it. The work begins with an Allegro vivace, full […]
2015-06-19 15:36:35
[…] hills. In July 1819 Schubert accompanied him and for three months they basked in the admiration of local patrons. It was one of the happiest periods in Schubert’s short life. He writes roguishly to his brother Ferdinand, ‘At the house where I’m lodging there are eight girls, nearly all pretty – so you see, one’s kept busy.’ For the vivacious daughter of a local merchant, he wrote his D664 Sonata but for Sylvester Paumgartner, an iron-master and amateur cellist, there was a more famous gift, the Trout Quintet. It was Paumgartner’s suggestion, and Schubert’s first instrumental masterpiece: a set of variations for piano and strings on what was already amongst the best-loved of the songs from 1817, framed by four graceful movements – as Hummel’s Piano Quintet had been. But Schubert sails above his homely exemplar to create a shining serenade, in which music-making amongst friends is […]
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