Schubert on 3

[BBMmk2]

lthough I do like some of Schubert's music, I would think that this marathon is a bit like a snickers bar!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

lthough I do like some of Schubert's music, I would think that this marathon is a bit like a snickers bar!

Keep on Topic, Bbm!

[Nick Armstrong]

Spot the stupid mistake:

"performs two of Schubert's best known works for string quartet: the short movement known as his Quartettsatz and his last contribution to the genre - the "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, written in 1824."

End of a long week: what's the mistake, Roehre? It hasn't jumped out at me. No doubt I'm being slow.

[kernelbogey]

Suzy Klein has just said, a propos Schubert songs, 'there's even a sing-along bit [on the website], so if you fancy yourself as a Fischer-Dieskau, go for it'.

The patronising vulgarity of this language appalls me. Can you imagine a presenter on Radio 2 saying the equivalent? I hardly think so.

[Hornspieler]

I've decided to have a dip into Radio 3 a couple of times in the next few days, just to hear what's going on.

What one might call "Schubert DABS"

HS

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

End of a long week: what's the mistake, Roehre?

The Death & Maiden is the penultimate S4tet: the G major was "his last contribution to the genre" (written two years later).

[Roehre]

End of a long week: what's the mistake, Roehre? It hasn't jumped out at me. No doubt I'm being slow.

The "Death and the Maiden" Quartet (String quartet [no.14] in d D.810) was certainly not the last Schubert composed.
That's the String quartet [no.15] in G opus 161 D. 887 from 1826.

Edit: sorry FHG, my post crossed yours.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Edit: sorry FHG, my post crossed yours.

Apology, if any owed, is mine: Cali did address his question to you.

Best Wishes.

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks both for positively clambering over one another to patch up my threadbare knowledge!

I must say I am already well-disposed to the Schubertathon... It saved me having to listen to more bloody Glass on the way home this evening.

I'd take a week of Schubert over 5 minutes of Emperor Philip's repetitive new clothes...

[Don Petter]

I've just caught a window on the way home in the car. A rather uneven performance of the last of the D899 impromptus by Imogen Cooper and then the interval talk launched into a load of Schubertian clap-trap. A 'Schubert lab' three times a day? What's that supposed to mean? (It didn't say whether it will be physical, chemical or biological.) Mercifully at that point I reached home.

I hope the rest of the week will be more worthwhile.

[Hornspieler]

Thanks both for positively clambering over one another to patch up my threadbare knowledge!

I must say I am already well-disposed to the Schubertathon... It saved me having to listen to more bloody Glass on the way home this evening.

I'd take a week of Schubert over 5 minutes of Emperor Philip's repetitive new clothes...

I found myself stuck with that awful cello piece whilst waiting to record the Schumann/Brahms concert.

The most boring piece I have ever heard. How the presenter could have enthused over that, I don't know. Come to that, how did he manage to stay awake?

In the words of a well-known Music Critic: "Good is not the word!

HS

[David-G]

Just got home from five hours of live Schubert at Kings Place. Wonderful! The time seemed to fly.

[MrGongGong]

lthough I do like some of Schubert's music, I would think that this marathon is a bit like a snickers bar!

???

surely you mean Squirrel Sh*t ?

[Nick Armstrong]

???

surely you mean Squirrel Sh*t ?

Moving on.

The Imogen Cooper recital sounded very good indeed. Have been doing other things, hence avoided the 'requests and dedications'. But I shall happily devour all the piano, chamber and symphonic Schubert they can throw my way in the next week.

[grandchant]

Well, it's started, and I'm denied my classical radio station for a week. Anyone know a good alternative from further afield?