A summit of romantic music in a Schubertiade of outstanding musicians and served by a superb sound recording with the signature of Nicolas Bartholomée.

The Piano Quintet in A major Op. 114 was composed in 1819 (Schubert was 22), at the request of Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy music patron and amateur cellist. Its title, Die Forelle (The Trout) refers to its fourth-movement set of variations on the composer’s earlier song of that name. The compelling Sonatina in D Major, Op.posth. 137, no. 1 (1817) is really a sonata for piano and violin (the term sonatina was used to give these pieces greater appeal for amateur musicians). It is heavily influenced by Mozart and Beethoven, Schubert’s principal models, and he unmistakeably quotes Mozart in the first movement, where he takes up the theme from the E minor Violin Sonata K304.