Walter Grimmer & 3Gdreigenerationenquartett - Schubert & Racine: String Quintets (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Adagio for String Quintet
02. String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956: I. Allegro ma non troppo
03. String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956: II. Adagio
04. String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956: III. Scherzo. Presto
05. String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956: IV. Allegretto



I have composed this Adagio for string quintet at the request of my friend Walter Grimmer; it should be played in concert before the great string quintet in C by Schubert. What a story! What kind of hillock have I created next to the Himalaya of chamber music? Well, I have written a type of music with which I have striven to stay true to my own self. And yet the piece begins with Schuberts closing trills for the two cellos and repeatedly a C major chord pops up, mostly delicately, but just once entirely explicitly. And as a reference to the Adagio from the great Austrian, Ive given the second cello some repeated pizzicati to play. And as a gift for my friend who gave me this commission: a short cadenza from the second cello, followed by a coda in which both violins repeat the opening pizzicati two octaves higher. And the piece ends with a long deep C note, which should serve to introduce the beginning of the Schubert. And now you enter into a totally different dimension...

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