ORION ENSEMBLE

Franz Schubert, by no means a merry-maker, characterised his life as “agony”. But what beautiful music he has written! A concert wholly devoted to two great chambermusic works by Schubert. The programme includes his first piano-trio ( D667 ) and the piano-quintet The Trout ( D667 ) for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano. The song Die Forelle is very well-known and recurs in the quintet. But why Schubert’s interest in a floundering little fish?

 

Pianotrio no. 1 (D898)
Forellenquintet (D667)
(keuze muziek onder voorbehoud)