The Schubert Ensemble play Schubert

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The B flat Trio receives a pleasantly warm performance here, with textures kept clear and resonant...The players deal sympathetically with this most sympathetic music...[In the Trout] the Andante... — International Record Review, October 2010 More…

Release Date: 29th Mar 2010
Catalogue No: CHRCD007
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 72 minutes

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Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout'

Work length34:59

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The Schubert Ensemble

I. Allegro vivace

Track length9:23

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II. Andante

Track length6:56

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III. Scherzo: Presto - Trio

Track length4:05

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IV. Theme and Variations: Andantino

Track length7:59

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V. Allegro giusto

Track length6:36

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Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major, D898

Work length37:54

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The Schubert Ensemble

I. Allegro moderato

Track length11:23

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II. Andante un poco mosso

Track length10:27

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III. Scherzo: Allegro

Track length6:40

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IV. Rondo: Allegro vivace

Track length9:24

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The Schubert Ensemble, led by Simon Blendis, perform a work for which they are justly well-known - Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet, coupled here with the same composer's elegant Piano Trio No.1 in B flat.

Composed in the Austrian country town of Steyr in 1819, The Trout, as it is commonly known, is one of Schubert's most celebrated and enduring works. The apparent simplicity of the structures forms a framework for wonderfully inventive, beautifully contrasted material; the link between the music itself and the spacious, inspiring scenery which surrounded Schubert as he composed it is clear. A sparkling Scherzo, offset by a rather coy Trio lead into the Theme and Variations for which the piece is so well-known. It is wonderfully played, here, by the lively and enthusiastic Schubert Ensemble, and sends us on our way to the jovial Finale with its joyous spirit of untroubled relaxation. Schubert's Piano Trio No.1, written eight years after the ?Trout', is one of his most delectable chamber works, full of long, lyrical melodic lines; there is a certain similarity with the Trout without direct thematic resemblance. The Schubert Ensemble deliver another uplifting and first-rate performance.

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October 2010

The B flat Trio receives a pleasantly warm performance here, with textures kept clear and resonant...The players deal sympathetically with this most sympathetic music...[In the Trout] the Andante is gently and charmingly played...The finale goes along with a spring in its step, and with plenty of good humour.

...their performance has all the spontaneity and none of the routine that comes from long familiarity with each other and the work....these seasoned Schubertians are equally alert to the underlying emotional turbulence that troubles, but never overwhelms, this life-enhancing music.

16th April 2010

The group’s confidence has been finely honed over the years, intimacy being matched by vital spontaneity, expressive phrasing and an instinctive way of animating the music’s textures so that they are close-knit but at the same time luminously articulated.

The Schubert Ensemble play Schubert

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