2nd June 2008
Schubert's Trout Quintet is one of the best loved pieces in the repertoire, full of hummable melodies, easy to listen to and improbably combining energy and relaxed conviviality – what Stephen Johnson tags with the Viennese word “Gemütlichkeit“ in his wonderful piece on BBC discovering music. It's an unusual work in that Schubert was so young when he wrote it, and yet already had so much technical mastery.
