Schubert: Music for Flute & Piano

Grodd (Artist), Napoli (Artist), Schubert (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Schubert
• Audio CD (January 27, 2009)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B001LKLKQQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,122 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #61 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Reeds & Winds

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5.0 out of 5 stars Savoury Schubertian Salubrities..., January 29, 2009

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Sébastien Melmoth (Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schubert: Music for Flute & Piano (Audio CD)

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Disc serves up a tasty dish of lesser-known aeolian fungi by our favourite little toadstool, 'Buttons'.

It is not unusual to hear flautists appropriate violin literature, and while Schubert's a-minor Sonata D.821 for the now extinct arpeggione (bowed guitar) is usually performed on the cello, it is here given an haunting reading with brazen wind.

(Cf. César Franck's Sonata for violin with substitute flute, or Brahms' late Violin Sonata with substitute cello.)

The genre of Flute Sonata didn't really catch fire till round the turn of the century and after; withal, (with the exception as always of the trailblazing Beethoven's Op. 107), Schubert's e-minor Introduction, Theme, and (vii) Variations D. 802 represents a very singular achievement.

Schubert takes his Theme from song 18 "Trockne Blumen [Withered Flowers]"--the climax of his song-cycle Die Schöne Müllerin [The Beautiful Mill-Maid] D. 795, featuring the echt-Romantic topos of the Liebestod idea that the existential longing for perfect Love [Eros] is only assuaged in Death [Thanatos].

(Cf. other notable instances where Schubert took his own melodies as themes for chamber works:
music for Rosamunde D. 797 used in String Quartet D. 804;
"Der Tod und Das Mädchen" D. 531 used in String Quartet D. 810;
"Sei Mir Gegrüsst" D. 741 used in Violin Fantasy D. 934.)

This rare recital is filled out with lieder transcriptions from the late masterworks Winterreise D. 911 and Schwanengesang D. 957.

Timings, sound, performances all very satisfactory.
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Dvorák: Sonatina in G major; Schubert: Introduction and Variations; Franck: Sonata in A major
Oktett Octet -Variations Trockne Blumen
Schubert; Reinecke; Martinu: Flute & Piano Works
Trockne Blumen: 19th Century Flute Music
Franz Schubert: Songs Without Words
Beethoven: Complete Chamber Music for Flute
Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
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