Franz Schubert; Robert Schumann - Piano Quintets (Rudolf Serkin)

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Composer: Franz Schubert; Robert Schumann

1. Schubert - Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667 "The Trout": I. Allegro vivace
2. Schubert - Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667 "The Trout": II. Andante
3. Schubert - Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667 "The Trout": III. Scherzo. Presto
4. Schubert - Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667 "The Trout": IV. Theme & variation. Andantino
5. Schubert - Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667 "The Trout": V. Finale. Allegro giusto
6. Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44: I. Allegro brillante
7. Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44: II. In modo d'una Marcia
8. Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44: III. Scherzo: molto vivace
9. Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44: IV. Allegro ma non tropo

Rudolf Serkin, piano
with
Jaime Laredo, violin (1-5)
Philipp Naegele, viola (1-5)
Leslie Parnas, cello (1-5)
Julius Levine, double bass (1-5)
&
Budapest String Quartet (6-9)
Joseph Roisman, violin I
Alexander Schneider, violin II
Boris Kroyt, viola
Mischa Schneider, cello

Date: 1963 (Schumann), 1967 (Schubert)
Label: Sony Classical

More info & reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Piano-Quintet-Trout/dp/B0000AH3EP
http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Quintet-Mozart-Clarinet-Quintet/dp/B00000275O
http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Concerto-Quintet-Robert-Schumann/dp/B0000025MN

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Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer who was extremely prolific during his short lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century. His music is characterized by pleasing tunes while still has "a great wealth of technical finesse".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert

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Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, and left an array of acclaimed music in virtually all the forms then known. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Schumann suffered from a lifelong mental disorder, and died in 1856 without having recovered from his illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann

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Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 – 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. Serkin studied piano with Richard Robert and composition with Joseph Mar and Arnold Schoenberg. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century. Serkin made numerous recordings from the 1940s into the 1980s, most of them for Columbia Masterworks, some are for RCA, Deutsche Grammophon and Telarc. He was also revered as a musician's musician, a father figure to a legion of younger players who came to the Marlboro School and Festival, which he and Adolf Busch founded in 1951.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Serkin

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