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Schubert: Die Forelle, D. 550 "The Trout" & Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. Posth. 114, D. 667 "Trout"

7/1/2022, 6 Tracks, 43:58

Featuring

  • Angela Nisi
  • Marco Albrizio
  • Paolo Franchesini
  • Mizuho Ueyama
  • Gianluca Pirisi
  • Stefano Corato
  • Franz Peter Quintet
  • Franz Schubert

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Schubert's "Trout Quintet" is characterized by a mutable virtuosity and a "capriciousness" that moves away from the rigor of Enlightenment-era music.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, known as the "Trout Quintet," was commissioned by Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy mine owner and amateur cellist.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Quintet's structure, with its five movements, does not alter the classical configuration of this type of composition, but rather fills canonical forms with a proliferation of ideas.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Schubert included the double bass in the "Trout Quintet" to add sonic depth and a "Leonardesque shadowiness," making the work more complete and universal.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The commissioner, Sylvester Paumgartner, specifically requested that Schubert include a movement in variation form based on his Lied "Die Forelle" (The Trout), D. 550.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The "Trout Quintet" features an unusual instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, rather than the standard two violins, viola, and cello of a string quartet.

Source: Booklet

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