Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione Sonata; Die Forelle

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Description: Schubert wrote the Trout Quintet as a carefree young man still untouched by ill health and poverty; it radiates golden sunshine, confident hope, and high spirits. His earliest large-scale composition, it is among his most popular works. Its variation movement is the first of several in which he used one of his own songs as the theme, and this record includes the song itself--an inspired idea. It also includes the Arpeggione Sonata, the only surviving piece written for that now extinct six-stringed instrument, whose range most closely resembles that of the cello. The performances are all superb, lovely in tone, unanimous in phras ... (more)

Manufacturer: Sony Classical
Release date: 23 January 1996
EAN: 0074646196427 UPC: 074646196427

Tags: Romantic (1), Chamber (1), Schubert (1), Sonatas (1)

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