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Clocking in at a full hour, the Octet in F Major is one of the longest works in the chamber music repertoire. Ravaged by disease, Schubert took as his starting point, as expressly stipulated in the commission he received from the Steward of the Archduke Rodolphe, Beethoven's Septet in E-flat major Op. 20, whose fame greatly chagrined its writer. In Schubert's Octet there is a certain joie de vivre cut across, as ever with him, by occasional notes of desperation (the call of the horn in the first movement, the elegiac turns of the Adagio).
In order to meet his patron's very precise specifications, he used the same instrumentation, with the addition of a second violin, and he took on the same order of movements and the same tonal pattern as the Beethovian model. But while Schubert poured his work into this mould so as to please his client, he wrote a very personal work which, by his own account, would lead him towards the great symphonic form which would appear rather later with his Symphony No. 9 in C major. Isabelle Faust and friends make you laugh and cry, moving in perfect unison from one emotion to another, never hesitating to lay this sublime music bare, without any recourse to affected vibrato or excessive expression. A performance that brings us close to the fragility of existence. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Octet in F-Major, D.803 (Franz Schubert)
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Oscar Strasnoy, Arranger - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Franz Schubert, Composer - Isabelle Faust, Violin, MainArtist - Teunis van der Zwart, Horn, MainArtist - Lorenzo Coppola, Clarinet, MainArtist - Kristin von der Goltz, Cello, MainArtist - James Munro, MainArtist, DoubleBass - Anne Katharina Schreiber, Violin, MainArtist - Oscar Strasnoy, Arranger - Danusha Waskiewicz, Viola, MainArtist - Javier Zafra, MainArtist
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
Album review
Clocking in at a full hour, the Octet in F Major is one of the longest works in the chamber music repertoire. Ravaged by disease, Schubert took as his starting point, as expressly stipulated in the commission he received from the Steward of the Archduke Rodolphe, Beethoven's Septet in E-flat major Op. 20, whose fame greatly chagrined its writer. In Schubert's Octet there is a certain joie de vivre cut across, as ever with him, by occasional notes of desperation (the call of the horn in the first movement, the elegiac turns of the Adagio).
In order to meet his patron's very precise specifications, he used the same instrumentation, with the addition of a second violin, and he took on the same order of movements and the same tonal pattern as the Beethovian model. But while Schubert poured his work into this mould so as to please his client, he wrote a very personal work which, by his own account, would lead him towards the great symphonic form which would appear rather later with his Symphony No. 9 in C major. Isabelle Faust and friends make you laugh and cry, moving in perfect unison from one emotion to another, never hesitating to lay this sublime music bare, without any recourse to affected vibrato or excessive expression. A performance that brings us close to the fragility of existence. © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:06
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Danusha Waskiewicz, Kristin von der Goltz, James Munro, Lorenzo Coppola, Teunis van der Zwart, Javier Zafra
- Composer: Franz Schubert
- Label: harmonia mundi
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
2018 harmonia mundi 2017 harmonia mundi
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