According to his friend Albert Stadler, Schubert's celebrated 'Trout' Quintet was based, at the request of the patron who commissioned it, on an earlier piece by Hummel for this unusual combination of instruments. Given the respective dates of Schubert's work and of Hummel's op.87, the latter was probably not Schubert's model; but its reputation as one of Hummel's finest compositions is amply justified here in this highly appropriate coupling.
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL [1778-1837]
Quintette en mi bémol mineur op.87Quintet in E flat minor
Quintett es-moll
· Allegro e risoluto assai (8'35)
· Menuetto. Allegro con fuoco (4'52)
· Largo (2'30)
· Finale. Allegro agitato (4'30)
· Allegro vivace (13'11)
FRANZ SCHUBERT [1797-1828]
Quintette en La majeur "La Truite" op.114 D.667Quintet in A major 'Trout Quintet'
Quintett A-dur "Forellenquintett"
· Andante (6'39)
· Scherzo. Presto (4'03)
· Thema. Andantino (1'01)
· Variation I (0'53)
· Variation II (1'00)
· Variation III (0'51)
· Variation IV (1'01)
· Variation V (1'28)
· Allegretto (1'17)
· Allegro giusto (6'31)
