In his prelude to “Trout Quintet,” Steve Raymond writes that he has stayed “within narrow factual bounds” in his previous books on fishing, and he’s tired of it. So he’s letting his imagination run ...

Elegance, beauty and irrepressible good humour: music from the pen of a 22 year-old prodigy — inspired by the tragi-comic death of a fish! Schubert’s "Trout" Quintet is one of the best loved of all ...

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 "Trout" Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Hwayoon Lee (viola), Maximilian Hornung (cello), Roman Patkoló (double bass) Franz ...

“It’s difficult to write music that is consistently happy all the way through,” the excellent musicologist Christopher Hogwood said in a 2012 lecture on Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet. But, in Hogwood’s ...

A delightful drawing, made by one of Schubert’s friends, captures the cosy ambience of the musical evenings they shared in Vienna. It is an intimate gathering, with the composer at the piano and 30 or ...

Syracuse, N.Y. —Can a song about a fish inspire a sublime piece of music? Yes, when the music is the “Trout” piano quintet by Franz Schubert, to be performed at the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music ...

Schubert's Trout Quintet, with its use of double bass, is often seen as a singular work. This new disc couples it with a precursor, Hummel's Quintet in E flat, written 17 years earlier in 1802, though ...

For their concert Feb. 16, ProMusica Minnesota has a very Minnesota-sounding title: “The Trout.” While the name comes from a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart that tells the story of a trout ...