Schubert - String Quintet in C major, D956
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Chamber » Quintets » String Quintets
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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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Schubert: Death And The Maiden & String Quintet In C Major
Recommendedwith Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Pavel Haas Quartet, with the superb extra cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, even succeed where most other ensembles fail, making the last movement of the String Quintet into something that seems... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Chamber
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The Hollywood String Quartet play Schoenberg and Schubert
RecommendedAlvin Dinkin, Kurt Reher
The Hollywood String Quartet
This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill... —
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Building a Library, February 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Schubert: String Quintet & Lieder
RecommendedGautier Capuçon (cello), Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Laurene Durantel (double-bass)
Quatuor Ebène
The Quatuor Ebène, who together with the remarkable cellist Gautier Capuçon perform the C major String Quintet, stands out, even in a golden age of string quartets…and since Capuçon integrates... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Building A Library, March 2022, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Schubert: Death & the Maiden Quartets
Recommendedwith Douglas Cummings (cello)
The Lindsays
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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This is exactly the kind of aristocratic, intellectually commanding playing you would expect of the Takacs Quartet...The Takacs pace the argument superbly, so that everything in this huge, complex... —
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Schubert: String Quintet - Arpeggione Sonata - Lieder
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel, Quatuor Parisii (chamber ensemble)
her affection for and understanding of [the Arpeggione] are clear from her performance, enhanced by an obvious rapport with pianist Pascal Amoyel...A potentially fine set of performances that... —
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The traditionally ceremonial key of C major takes on a different hue in Schubert's Quintet. …the playing is on the loftiest level, ensemble always transparently clean; and the ability to think,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Chamber
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Building A Library, May 2026, Recommended Recording (String Quartet No. 15)
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Everything's very well done here: the first movement unforced in its melodic flow, the Adagio calm, and clear in the outer sections and powerful in the middle, the Scherzo lively and the trio... —
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Building a Library, October 2007, Budget Choice
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Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D956, etc.
Recommendedwith Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Hagen Quartett
By following Boccherini in using two cellos instead of two violas for his String Quintet, Schubert increased the potential for greater textural contrast. Moreover, the dichotomy between the... —
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Building a Library, October 2007, First Choice
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