Franz Schubert

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Brahmsian

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Another great performance (courtesy of Greg in Georgia)

Schubert

String Quintet in C major, D956 (first listen to this performance)

Rondo in A major for violin and String Quartet, D438 (first listen to this work!)


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I was blown away by the Trio. Andante Sostenuto from the Scherzo 3rd movement.  It eclipsed my beloved Emerson/Rostropovich recording.  An incredible experience.  The Trio. Andante Sostenuto is, for me, about as beautiful as it gets.  As beautiful as a prairie sunset over a golden wheat field in late summer, before harvest.  It moved me tremendously.

Thanks, Greg!  :)

Sorry, I couldn't seem to find a clearer image.

Gurn Blanston

Quote from: ChamberNut on July 17, 2014, 06:08:48 AM
Another great performance (courtesy of Greg in Georgia)

Schubert

String Quintet in C major, D956 (first listen to this performance)

Rondo in A major for violin and String Quartet, D438 (first listen to this work!)


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I was blown away by the Trio. Andante Sostenuto from the Scherzo 3rd movement.  It eclipsed my beloved Emerson/Rostropovich recording.  An incredible experience.  The Trio: Andante sostenuto is, for me, about as beautiful as it gets.  As beautiful as a prairie sunset over a golden wheat field in late summer, before harvest.  It moved me tremendously.

Thanks, Greg!  :)

Sorry, I couldn't seem to find a clearer image.

Far and away my favorite performance of this work, which is already one of my top Schubert pieces. Performance quality, sound quality, recording engineering all = 10!   0:)

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Brahmsian

Quote from: Gurn Blanston on July 17, 2014, 06:23:50 AM
Far and away my favorite performance of this work, which is already one of my top Schubert pieces. Performance quality, sound quality, recording engineering all = 10!   0:)

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I was blown away Gurn, blown away I tell ya!  :)

TheGSMoeller

Quote from: ChamberNut on July 17, 2014, 06:08:48 AM
Another great performance (courtesy of Greg in Georgia)

Schubert

String Quintet in C major, D956 (first listen to this performance)

Rondo in A major for violin and String Quartet, D438 (first listen to this work!)


I was blown away by the Trio. Andante Sostenuto from the Scherzo 3rd movement.  It eclipsed my beloved Emerson/Rostropovich recording.  An incredible experience.  The Trio. Andante Sostenuto is, for me, about as beautiful as it gets.  As beautiful as a prairie sunset over a golden wheat field in late summer, before harvest.  It moved me tremendously.

Thanks, Greg!  :)

Sorry, I couldn't seem to find a clearer image.

You're welcome, Ray! It's an all around amazing disc! And it is the best Trio on record for sure.

Brahmsian

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on July 17, 2014, 06:33:12 AM
You're welcome, Ray! It's an all around amazing disc! And it is the best Trio on record for sure.

Let this be the truth, please.  My heart could not take anything more beautiful than that.

Brahmsian

1. For me, personally, the crème de la crème of all music is late Schubert.

2. Within that, the D.956 Quintet in C is the crème de la crème of late Schubert.

3. And another layer within, those approx. 4.5 minutes of the Scherzo (the Trio. Andante Sostenuto) is the crème de la crème of the D. 956 Quintet.   :)

Jo498

Have you heard the Petersen/Sanderling recording? This one has a very slow bleak trio section.
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Moonfish

Quote from: ChamberNut on July 17, 2014, 09:09:00 AM
1. For me, personally, the crème de la crème of all music is late Schubert.

2. Within that, the D.956 Quintet in C is the crème de la crème of late Schubert.

3. And another layer within, those approx. 4.5 minutes of the Scherzo (the Trio. Andante Sostenuto) is the crème de la crème of the D. 956 Quintet.   :)

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Ken B

Quote from: ChamberNut on July 17, 2014, 09:09:00 AM
1. For me, personally, the crème de la crème of all music is late Schubert.

2. Within that, the D.956 Quintet in C is the crème de la crème of late Schubert.

3. And another layer within, those approx. 4.5 minutes of the Scherzo (the Trio. Andante Sostenuto) is the crème de la crème of the D. 956 Quintet.   :)

Schubert is also Philip Glass's favourite. (Hint hint.)
When you look at what Schubert did in the last 5 years of his life, and what he was doing that was original, ...

Brahmsian

Quote from: Ken B on July 17, 2014, 01:12:01 PM
Avert your eyes oh Manitoban ...
http://read.thestar.com/?origref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F#!/article/513cd0957b1eac1e2001c075-brier-northern-ontario-s-brad-jacobs-wins-canadian-men-s-curling-championship

:laugh:

:D  The link did not work for me, but I see it is a reference to Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario defeating Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton in the Brier.

Well, I've always considered Northern Ontario to be a part of Manitoba.  ;D

Ken B

Quote from: ChamberNut on July 17, 2014, 01:30:13 PM
:D  The link did not work for me, but I see it is a reference to Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario defeating Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton in the Brier.

Well, I've always considered Northern Ontario to be a part of Manitoba.  ;D

So would I, in your place.  :laugh:

amw

Quote from: ChamberNut on July 17, 2014, 06:45:35 AM
Let this be the truth, please.  My heart could not take anything more beautiful than that.

Show up to my D956 blind comparison (if that's ever going to happen... GMG seems to have completely lost interest in blind comparisons) and you can find out for yourself! ;)

(In fairness L'Archibudelli is also my favourite performance of this movement, and I've listened to about 50 different ones so far >.>)

Scion7

It's all fictional dialogue, of course, but I like Adolf Eichmann's character in CONSPIRACY making the snarky remarks about Schubert's Quintet in C - fits his personality.   :-X
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

Ken B

Quote from: Scion7 on July 18, 2014, 05:56:33 PM
It's all fictional dialogue, of course, but I like Adolf Eichmann's character in CONSPIRACY making the snarky remarks about Schubert's Quintet in C - fits his personality.   :-X
Not such a comfort as it seems. Heydrich was a good violinist who loved Schubert.

SonicMan46

Quote from: Scion7 on July 18, 2014, 05:56:33 PM
It's all fictional dialogue, of course, but I like Adolf Eichmann's character in CONSPIRACY making the snarky remarks about Schubert's Quintet in C - fits his personality.   :-X

Quote from: Ken B on July 18, 2014, 07:00:51 PM
Not such a comfort as it seems. Heydrich was a good violinist who loved Schubert.

Hey Guys - Ken's comment above piqued my interest - don't believe that I've seen Conspiracy (a TV film, I believe) - but the mention of Reinhardt Heydrich was of interest - a little about his 'musical pedigree' quoted below from HERE - will take a look tonight to see if I can streamed the picture - thanks.  Dave :)

QuoteHeydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic. His two forenames were patriotic musical tributes: "Reinhard" referred to the tragic hero from Amen (an opera his father wrote), and "Tristan" stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Heydrich's third name, "Eugen", was his late maternal grandfather's forename (Professor Eugen Krantz had been the director of the Dresden Royal Conservatory).Heydrich was born into a family of social standing and substantial financial means. Music was a part of Heydrich's everyday life; his father founded the Halle Conservatory of Music and his mother taught piano there.[9] Heydrich developed a passion for the violin and carried that interest into adulthood; he impressed listeners with his musical talent

Brahmsian

Sunday morning Schubert!

Sonata in E flat, D568
Sonata in C minor, D958


Schiff, piano

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Ken B

Quote from: SonicMan46 on July 19, 2014, 06:26:32 AM
Hey Guys - Ken's comment above piqued my interest - don't believe that I've seen Conspiracy (a TV film, I believe) - but the mention of Reinhardt Heydrich was of interest - a little about his 'musical pedigree' quoted below from HERE - will take a look tonight to see if I can streamed the picture - thanks.  Dave :)

Every now and then it is worth remembering that no political movement or government was as dominated by artists and aesthetes as nazism. Leading nazis included novelists, painters, musicians, architects. During their rise nazis were also strongest in university towns and amongst the intelligentsia.

Florestan

Quote from: Ken B on July 20, 2014, 02:11:49 PM
Every now and then it is worth remembering that no political movement or government was as dominated by artists and aesthetes as nazism. Leading nazis included novelists, painters, musicians, architects. During their rise nazis were also strongest in university towns and amongst the intelligentsia.

Well, you know the old and apt adage: such an idiocy, only an intellectual could believe in;D
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Scion7

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Quote from: Ken B on July 20, 2014, 02:11:49 PM
Every now and then it is worth remembering that no political movement or government was as dominated by artists and aesthetes as nazism. Leading nazis included novelists, painters, musicians, architects. During their rise nazis were also strongest in university towns and amongst the intelligentsia.

Actually, that's not true.  While yes, many Nazi's were this and that, the LEADING members of National Socialism were almost all thugs and/or non-intellectuals - Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Hess, Bormann, Rohm, Kaltenbrunner, Streicher, Ribbentrop . . . the list goes on and on.  The large majority of German intellectuals shunned the National Socialist movement.  The National Socialist regime was not dominated by those relatively few members who had an IQ higher than that of below-average- Speer being one exception, and less than a third of the population actually joined the party.  And for all of Heydrich's artistic education, he was dedicated to sadism and completely without empathy for his fellow man.  This idea is one of the many "urban myths" about the Nazi movement, and is not supported by the studies of it.
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."