SCHUBERT - Piano Quintet D. 667 "Die Forelle" (Tezza-Ghidoni-Maini-Agosti-Georgieva) - live

FROM PALAZZO DUCALE IN MANTOVA - FRANZ SCHUBERT: PIANO QUINTET IN A MAJOR D. 667 "DIE FORELLE" / MARCO TEZZA, PIANO - PAOLO GHIDONI, VIOLIN - ANDREA MAINI, VIOLA - RICCARDO AGOSTI, CELLO - DANIELA GEORGIEVA, DOUBLE BASS / LIVE RECORDING AT “TRAME SONORE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022”
I - ALLEGRO VIVACE
II - ANDANTE (14:50)
III - SCHERZO - PRESTO (23:42)
IV TEMA - (ANDANTINO) - VAR. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. - ALLEGRETTO (28:36)
V - FINALE - ALLEGRO GIUSTO (37:30)
Franz Schubert transformed five song melodies from his rich output of Lieder into instrumental music. The song “The Trout” from 1817 served as a theme for the variations in his Quintet D. 667 for piano, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, one of chamber music’s most popular works. The piece’s sunny mood - it sounds much more cheerful than Schubert’s other chamber music - comes across like an echo of the felicitous summer months of 1819. The then twenty-two-year-old Schubert passed these in convivial company at Steyr in Upper Austria, and subsequently set to work composing.