Schubert: "Trout" Quintet / Waltzes / Ländler
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet / Waltzes / Ländler
Thymos Quartet, with Christoph Eschenbach, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (pianos) & Yann Dubost (double bass)
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Release Date: Friday 15 May 2020
Christoph Eschenbach reunites with the Paris-based Thymos Quartet in Schubert's triumphant chamber work, the "Trout" Quintet, a recording that celebrates the 80th birthday of the great pianist / conductor. From babbling brook and leaping fish, this present-day Schubertiade relocates to a 19th century Viennese salon, with a selection of the composer's waltzes in unique chamber music arrangements and concludes with selected Ländler, performed by pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, ranging in mood from iridescent to intimate.
"In this delightful recording, the limelight is shared between Christoph Eschenbach's crystalline piano playing and the creamy string sound, underpinned by the rumbling, bouncing bass. The tempo is elastic, yielding. And there's no rigid ensemble, either; the mood is convivial, like conversing friends who occasionally interrupt each other. Eschenbach's solo moments have memorable rhetorical swagger…I couldn't stop smiling." BBC Music August 2020 Chamber Choice
"Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert's Trout Quintet...It's a performance teeming with delightful incident right the way through, in fact, yet such consistent attention to detail never precludes expansive phrasing or inhibits burbling rhythmic vivacity." Gramophone
"Schubert, in his brief life, would write greater, darker music, but the Trout Quintet of 1819 is still a marvel...A joy to hear it again, even if these musicians' Andante sounds more like Adagio" Sunday Times
Tracks:
Piano Quintet in A, D. 667 "The Trout"
Waltzes, D. 146 (arr. Olivier Dejours)
Ländler, D. 790 (excerpts)
