Schubert: Trout Quintet, Waltzes, Lndler
Yann Dubost, Thymos Quartet, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Christoph Eschenbach
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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...
Schubert: Trout Quintet, Waltzes, Lndler
Yann Dubost, Thymos Quartet, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Christoph Eschenbach
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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...
About
Christoph Eschenbach reunites with the Paris-based Thymos Quartet in Schubert's popular "Trout" Quintet, a recording that celebrates the 80th birthday of the great pianist / conductor. The album is rounded out by a selection of the composer's folk dances and waltzes in unique chamber music arrangements.
Christoph Eschenbach reunites with 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 Lndler, performed by pianist Jean-Frdric Neuburger, ranging in mood from iridescent to intimate.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"gorgeous irresistible Eschenbach's piano shines an emotional, romantic disc that is hard to resist" Fanfare (on Dvo 345;k's Love Songs, Cypresses, Piano Quintet in A major, AV2234)
"vivid and high-powered an ensemble of exceptional musical imagination and skill" Washington Post
"a magnificent album a rare example of expressiveness and distinction" Le Monde (on Dvo 345;k's Love Songs, Cypresses, Piano Quintet in A major, AV2234)
Contents and tracklist
- Yann Dubost, Christoph Eschenbach, Thymos Quartet
- Thymos Quartet, Yann Dubost
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineAugust 2020Chamber Choice
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2020
August 2020
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.
August 2020
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.
12th July 2020
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.
