Schubert: String Quintet D 956, Quartettsatz D 703 - Bartok Quartet, Miklos Perenyi, New Budapest Quartet / Classical Diamonds / Hungaroton Classic Audio CD 1997 Stereo / CLD 4035

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Franz Schubert's final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was composed in 1828 and completed just two months before the composer's death. The first public performance of the piece did not occur until 1850, and publication occurred three years later in 1853. Schubert's only full-fledged string quintet, it has been praised as "sublime" or "extraordinary" and as possessing "bottomless pathos," and is generally regarded as Schubert's finest chamber work as well as one of the greatest compositions in all chamber music.

The Quartettsatz c-Moll (Quartet Movement in C minor) D 703 was composed by Franz Schubert in December 1820 as the first movement, Allegro assai, of a string quartet he was never to complete. Upon publication it was nonetheless listed as his "String Quartet No. 12". (Schubert did also compose the first 40 bars of the next movement, Andante.) The nine-minute work is regarded as an early product of the composer's mature phase of output.

Tracklist:

String Quintet in C major D 956 (Op. Posth. 163)

1.  I. Allegro ma non troppo    13:17

2.  II. Adagio    13:19

3.  III. Scherzo    11:01

4. IV. Allegretto   8:40

5. String Quartet No 12 in C minor (Quartettsatz) D 703    9:14

• Cello - Miklos Perényi