Franz Schubert – String Quintet in C major, D 956
by richibi
“Schubert at the Piano” (1899)
________
the Filarmonica Quartet, which I’d earlier described
as “not at all unimpressive”, show themselves here,
performing Schubert‘s otherworldly String Quintet
in C major, D 956, to be the very sound of those
angels Schubert calls upon to perform his
miraculous music
their hometown Novosibirsk audience will continue
however to stubbornly, shamelessly, cough, in
scattered places, though the angels themselves,
the players, seem not especially distraught, they
play with great conviction, patience and tolerance
throughout superbly, caught up surely in their own
Schubertian Nirvana, a not uninstructive response
the Filarmonica Quartet of course will need a fifth
to play with them a quintet, who is, I think, the
extra cello at the front on the right, uncredited,
the piece calls for two violins, a viola and two
cellos, instead of the standard, at the time, extra
viola, surely for their greater and more resonant
chthonic character, which is to say, triggered by
the very earth
Franz Schubert, 1797-1828, died much too young,
only 31, this piece was completed not two months
before he passed away
it is also therefore a very haunting last testament
Richard
psst: D is for Otto Erich Deutsch
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