Schubert & Racine: String Quintets

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Release Date: 5th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: SM331
Label: Solo Musica
Length: 60 minutes

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Racine: Adagio for String Quintet

Work length6:48

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Walter Grimmer (cello), Egidius Streiff (violin), Lisa Rieder (violin), Mariana Doughty (viola), Sébastien Singer (cello)
3Gdreigenerationenquartett

Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956

Work length53:18

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Walter Grimmer (cello), Egidius Streiff (violin), Lisa Rieder (violin), Mariana Doughty (viola), Sébastien Singer (cello)
3Gdreigenerationenquartett

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length19:48

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II. Adagio

Track length13:20

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III. Scherzo. Presto

Track length10:09

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IV. Allegretto

Track length10:01

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'I have composed this Adagio for string quintet at the request of my friend Walter Grimmer; it should be played in concert before the great string quintet in C by Schubert. What a story! What kind of hillock have I created next to the Himalaya of chamber music? Well, I have written a type of music with which I have striven to stay true to my own self. And yet the piece begins with Schuberts closing trills for the two cellos and repeatedly a C major chord pops up, mostly delicately, but just once entirely explicitly. And as a reference to the Adagio from the great Austrian, Ive given the second cello some repeated pizzicati to play. And as a gift for my friend who gave me this commission: a short cadenza from the second cello, followed by a coda in which both violins repeat the opening pizzicati two octaves higher. And the piece ends with a long deep C note, which should serve to introduce the beginning of the Schubert. And now you enter into a totally different dimension…'

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