Schubert - Piano Quintet 'The Trout' [Schiff/Hagen String Quartet]This is the first Trout Quintet disc i bought, and it's a great version, and it's become my touchstone recording that i gauge all other recordings with, i got to fall in love with Schubert's Trout Quintet with this recording, and it opened up my mind to other Piano Quintets, the String Quartet, with the piano is a great combination, a sunny and uplifting work, you can almost hear the bubbling brook, this disc was originally only my third post in my Blog, way back at the beginning of 2010 [3rd January 2010].
Andras Schiff is Hungarian, is now 58, he made this recording back in 1983 when he was 30, the front cover shows a painting by Joseph Anton Koch.
I enjoyed the whole of this work, it's in A major, and even though all the movements are in the major, there's still somewhat of a dark undercurrent to the work at times, however i enjoyed the most the very sunny fourth movement variations,
Here's Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus String Quartet playing the fourth movement variations on YouTube.
