Brahms: Clarinet Quintet; Glazunov: Rêverie Orientale; Mozart: Quintet Movement in B flat [SACD]

Franz Meets His Maker

Advantages: Music to take you beyond this world
Disadvantages: Needs a bit of patience

understand them: we just need to respond to the sound-world he creates. The only technical term I shall use is the word Movement. Many musical works are divided into separate, contrasting sections separated by silences. Each section is called a movement. There, that didn?t hurt, did it? (Sorry, I?m being patronising, aren?t I?) The Quintet was written only a few months before Schubert died and it seems clear as the music progresses that he knew he was close to death. Of all his works, this one goes through every imaginable emotion and anyone who listens regularly to Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4, every Sunday and Friday morning), in which well known guests choose the eight records they could least live without, will have heard it. The work has been chosen by more guests on the programme than any other piece of any type, pop ...

Floon 30.05.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Schubert: String Quintet in C

The Lost Generation Classic Of A Quintet of Asses

Advantages: Classic Hemingway novel, full of delicous characters and parallels
Disadvantages: Not for those who dont like his work, and feminists might get upset

all four of the male characters want Brett in some way, which more or less causes her to leave with Pedro half the time. I will not reveal any more from there, and I just hope that I didn?t reveal too much; the heart of Hemingway?s story lies in the characterizations of all five of the main characters, who are very much expatriates, or as Bill Gorton calls in Chapter XII: ?drunks who are obsessed with sex and who write nothing worth publishing.? I think Brett is the most compelling of the quintet, not because she is the only female, but she is very much written as a woman ahead of her time in that she refuses to allow herself to be dominated and keep her independence in a time when women didn?t have that luxury, no matter how hard they worked for it. ****************************************************************** THE PARALLELS ...

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Review of The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Raphael Ensemble's Rainbow of Emotions

Advantages: Haunting, passionate music to get lost in.
Disadvantages: It's classical and this puts people off before they even try it.

. The sombre andante sostenutu interlude recalls the adagio and must have provoked a few tears itself over the years. I can only quote the notes which describes it as ?tortured innocence painfully suggests the composer?s increasing awareness of his own mortality (he died just over two weeks after completing the quintet).? Woken by the raucous scherzo the heart begins to pound. Allegretto [9?41] Schubert finally worked though the anger and frustration and the fourth movement has a more relaxed happy feel. The dance music reminiscent of gypsy violins plays quite cheerfully and by the end of the quintet one feels truly satisfied in some way and ready for anything in spite of the strange ending. String Trio Movement in B Flat Major, D471 [11?50] This short piece by Schubert, placed first on the cd, is much lighter and brighter than ...

Freespirit 28.09.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Schubert: String Quintet and Trio