Clangor Schallplatten-Volksverband MD 9399-9406 Schubert Quintet in A D.667, Berlin State Opera Chamber Music Society - Sách nói Miễn phí

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello & double bass in A major D.667

(billed on disc labels under original Op. no. and nickname ‘Forellen-Quintett’ or ‘Trout Quintet’, after https://imslp.org/wiki/Die\_Forelle,\_D.550\_(Schubert,_Franz) song which furnished theme of IV.)

I. Allegro vivace (disc MD 9399 / MD 9400)

II. Andante (disc MD 9401 / MD 9402)

III. Scherzo. Presto (side MD 9403 /)

IV. Thema. Andantino. Var. I-V (sides / MD 9404, MD 9405 [start] /)

V. Finale. Allegro giusto (sides MD 9405 [end] / MD 9406)

Berlin State Opera Chamber Music Society

Georg Kniestädt (violin / director)

Hans Martin Theopold (piano)

(Remaining members not named on disc labels but known from contemporary concert reviews)

Johann Steinweg (viola)

Richard Klemm (’cello)

Georg Zschenker (double bass)

Recorded: c. 1936-38, Tonographie studios, Berlin

Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 12” / 30 cm, electrical

Matrices: as above

Issued: late 1930s

Face numbers: as above (no catalogue numbers)

Schallplatten-Volksverband (‘National Record Association’) mail-order club launched 1929 by Berlin record company Clangor

Matrix numbers visible under disc labels both with and without prefix; runout shows ‘Tono’, signature of recording studio

In 1937 Hans Martin Theopold was appointed professor of piano at the Bavarian State Conservatoire in Würzburg but continued to appear as a member of the Berlin State Opera Chamber Music Society; during a concert at Berlin’s Singakademie on 16 November 1938 (for the Bußtag or Repentance Day holiday), Theopold, Kniestädt and fellow-members performed the Quintet alongside Schubert’s Octet and Rondo in b minor

Transfer and restoration: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger

Photographs and editing: DogintheManger

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