Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Schubert - String Quintet in C

Another old favourite. Listening to the first movement again, I wondered if it sounded a bit too sweet, somehow. But it is like drinking a Beerenauslese - you get the sweetness and then you get the acidity, and it is perfectly balanced. The unbearable tenderness of the slow movement: I don't think Schubert surpassed this. I don't think I had noticed before how rustic - rough, almost, by contrast - the 3rd and 4th movements are.

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