Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Guillaume Chilemme, Nathanaël Gouin, Marie Chilemme, Astrid Siranossian, Émilie Legrand
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Evidence Classics
Catalogue: EVCD046
Release: 2018
Size: 1.91 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Quintet in A major, D667 ‘The Trout’
01. I. Allegro vivace
02. II. Andante
03. III. Scherzo (Presto)
04. IV. Tema con variazione (Andantino)
05. V. Finale (Allegro giusto)
Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D934
06. I. Andante molto
07. II. Allegretto
08. III. Andantino
09. IV. Allegro vivace
The violinist Guillaume Chilemme and the pianist Nathanaël Gouin have imagined a schubertian sunny program. If the Viennese composer usually touches us with the tragic echoes of his language, here, though, he delights us with the vital and smiling energy.
The disc opens on a musical meeting with friends, exactly like the one that preceded the composition of the Quintet in A major. Nicknamed “The Trout”, the work indeed picks up its fourth movement’s melody to the eponymous lied. This score is not a traditional quintet for piano and string quartet but for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. It creates a summer climate that doesn’t fade afterwards.
In fact, the program then becomes more intimate with the Fantasia for violin and piano in C major. The same pleasant atmosphere bathed in sun emerges. Here again, the instruments draw their lyricism from the inexhaustible voice of Schubert, Lied’s father.
The wanderings of Schubert’s inspiration pass through the paths of fantasy – the German Phantasie refers to the realm of imagination and dream – and meet those of friendship in music. A territory where Guillaume Chilemme, Nathanaël Gouin and their guests give free rein to the inventions of their complicity.