Monday, February 15, 2010

Schubert's Trout Quintet

Piano Quintet in A Major "Trout" (4th movement)
This delightful quintet portrays word painting as the music depicts a trout caught by a fisherman in addition to exquisitely conveying the babbling stream. Schubert also adds the rare use of a double bass, an effective instrument to point to the lower range.

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