Description
Schubert: Piano Quintet 'Trout' & Adagio and Rondo Concertante – Jandó, Kodály Quartet, Naxos (CD)
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Product Details
- UPC: 4891030506589
- Catalogue Number: 8.550658
- Brand/Label: Naxos
- Composer: Franz Schubert
- Performers: Jenő Jandó, piano · Kodály Quartet · István Tóth, double bass
- Release Year: 1992 (recorded 2–4 December 1991)
- Genre: Classical – Chamber Music
- Country of Producing: Germany
Product Features
- Format: Audio CD, DDD (fully digital recording)
- Total playing time: 53:02 (Trout Quintet: 38:52 · Adagio and Rondo Concertante: 14:10)
- Cover artwork: Wood and Rocks, by Carl Schalhas
Overview
The Trout Quintet earns its popularity honestly — it's Schubert at his most tuneful and relaxed, five instruments trading a folk-simple melody back and forth without ever feeling repetitive. Jenő Jandó and the Kodály Quartet (joined by István Tóth on double bass, the instrument that gives this quintet's scoring its distinctive weight in the lower register) take the famous fourth-movement variations at an unhurried pace, letting each variation breathe rather than rushing toward the next one. The pairing here is smart: the Adagio and Rondo Concertante, written when Schubert was only nineteen, shows the same melodic instinct in an earlier, less-performed form, composed at the request of a friend's brother during a period when Schubert may have been hoping to marry into the family. Recorded at Budapest's Unitarian Church, the sound has the warm room ambience that suits Schubert's chamber writing without ever feeling distant. A genuinely enjoyable, well-paired disc rather than just another Trout Quintet reissue.
Interesting Facts
- The Trout Quintet's famous fourth movement is a set of variations on Schubert's own song "Die Forelle" (The Trout), giving the whole quintet its nickname.
- Schubert's use of a double bass instead of a second violin gives the Trout Quintet's instrumentation its distinctively rich, low-end sonority.
- The Adagio and Rondo Concertante, composed in 1816 when Schubert was just nineteen, was written at the request of Heinrich Grob — brother of Therese Grob, whom Schubert reportedly hoped to marry.
- This is a genuinely rare pairing on disc — the Adagio and Rondo Concertante is far less frequently recorded than the Trout Quintet itself.
- The recording took place at the Unitarian Church in Budapest, a venue Naxos used extensively for its early-1990s Hungarian chamber recordings.
Track Listing
Piano Quintet in A Major, D667, 'Trout' (38:52)
- Allegro vivace – 13:18
- Andante – 7:27
- Scherzo: Presto – 3:51
- Theme with Variations: Andantino – 7:10
- Finale: Allegro giusto – 6:45
Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F Major, D487
- Adagio – Allegro vivace – 14:10
Publishers
Naxos, part of the Naxos Music Group, recorded at the Unitarian Church, Budapest (producer Ibolya Tóth, engineer János Bohus, booklet notes Keith Anderson).
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