Franz Schubert

[San Antone]

I prefer reading about and listening to the music and ignoring the personal/biographic aspects of a composer's life unless it figures directly in the creation of a work.

[Karl Henning]

I'll take a drunken Schubert over any living composer, and most of the dead ones. 

I'm cryin' here, and not in my beer.

[LKB]

I'm cryin' here, and not in my beer.

Oops... apologies Karl, that was thoughtless of me.

[Karl Henning]

Oops... apologies Karl, that was thoughtless of me.

Spoken like a gentleman!

[Iota]

A portly, five-foot tall man nicknamed 'Schwammerl', who died at age 31 of syphilitic-related maladies, contracted some 6 years earlier, and was keen to break crockery whilst imbibing, would not lay in the category of attractive for me.

But, there is someone for everyone, I suppose. 

VS

Reading that I remembered a picture of the younger Schubert, when he did seem to sport kind of boy band-ish looks for a while. Clearly they didn't survive into his maturity.

[Brahmsian]

Can't wait for this to arrive, ordered a few days ago!

[DavidW]

Can't wait for this to arrive, ordered a few days ago!

I listened to it today.  It is as good as I remembered it being.

[Brahmsian]

I listened to it today.  It is as good as I remembered it being.

Yeah, I was very impressed with the samples I listened to.

[Brahmsian]

I already know this is DavidW approved.    Just arrived and now *spinning.

*And thank goodness it is spinning.  I struggled mightily to get the disc from the grasps of its spine (practically needing the jaws of life to remove).  The plastic spine from the case cracked in doing so, as it had to be the sacrificial lamb, over the actual compact disc.

Worth it though, as it is magnificent.  Octet in F major, D803 - performed by Edding Quartet/Northernlight.  Also includes the Quartettsatz in C minor D703



 

[DavidW]

Oh one of those cases... arg