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A noted virtuoso herself, Farrenc gives the piano a sparkling role
An obvious place to start when looking for works of a similar ilk to Schubert’s Quintet is the song that inspired its fourth-movement theme, which initially sets out telling of a happy fish darting here and there in a brook, shows Schubert at his most ebullient. Inevitably, though, there is a dark twist with a moral to it at the end. (Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano) ).
