The Schubert Ensemble
Piano Quintet & Violin Sonata
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212590046
- Catalog number CHRCD 004
- Release date 01 July 2010
About the album
This album from the renowned Schubert Ensemble bring the spirit of the Paris "Belle Epoque" alive. Newly re-mastered recordings of Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor and his Sonata for violin & piano in A are performed with enthusiasm by the experienced Schuberts.
Franck was known as a man "enamoured of gentleness and consolation", but these works tell a different story of an earthier man, less chaste, freed of starch and wing collar. Central to the quintet in particular was a woman; not Franck's dutiful wife, but a young student, Augusta Holmes "decorously rampant and possessed of bold beautiful features, abundant golden hair, and handsome breasts of which she was justifiably proud". Rimsky-Korsakov admired her, but in Paris, Saint-Saens and Franck fought over her. Franck's wife would have known that the emotions so readily expressed in this Quintet were not for her, but for Augusta, Franck's "impure and seductive" organ student.
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11Quintet for Piano and Strings In F Minor : I. Molto Moderato Quasi Lento - Allegro
16:00 -
12Quintet for Piano and Strings In F Minor : II. Lento, Con Molto Sentimento
10:30 -
13Quintet for Piano and Strings In F Minor : III. Allegro Non Troppo, Ma Con Fuoco
09:40 -
14Sonata for Violin and Piano In A : I. Allegretto Ben Moderato
06:27 -
15Sonata for Violin and Piano In A : II. Allegro
08:17 -
16Sonata for Violin and Piano In A : III. Recitativo - Fantasia
07:42 -
17Sonata for Violin and Piano In A : IV. Allegretto Poco Mosso
06:41