Compact Discoveries 23: Schubert's Tuneful Chamber Music
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:56
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Piece Description
Schubert was one of the greatest melody writers of all time. If you don't believe that, just tune in for this hour of proof. It includes the Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor. As an additional bonus, you'll find out what an arpeggione is and why you'll hear this piece played on a cello instead.
Broadcast History
First broadcast nationwide by the WFMT Radio Network.
Transcript
Program 23
"Schubert's Tuneful Chamber Music"
MUSIC: Schubert: Trout Quintet opening [Sony SK 61964, track 1] under the following:
FLAXMAN: Welcome to Compact Discoveries. I'm your guide, Fred Flaxman. Thank you for joining me for another chapter in this personal musical voyage of discovery. This next hour will be devoted to "Schubert's Tuneful Chamber Music."
MUSIC: fades out
FLAXMAN: Long before there were CDs, or LPs, or even 78s - in the centuries before there were any recordings at all - people who wanted music in their own homes had to make it themselves. So it was that a very young Franz Schubert began composing string quartets for his own, highly musical household. He went on to create some of the most magnificent chamber music you can hear today in the comfort of your own home on compact discs.
Coincidentally, Franz Schubert and George Gershwin were born one hundred years a...
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