简介:
The String Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ D.810, written in 1824- 1826, has become, with the Trout Quintet, one of the most famous and popular works by Franz Schubert. While the Trout Quintet was his first piece of chamber music to be well received in his time, reactions to the String Quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’ were initially mixed. In his Reminiscences of Schubert and Beethoven, written in 1881, Franz Lachner, who was befriended with Schubert from 1822, wrote: ‘This quartet, which now delights the entire world and is one of the greatest achievements in the genre, was hardly received with unanimous approval. After playing it through, first violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh, who by reason of this great age was not up to the task, proposed to the composer: “Dear brother, this is nothing, leave it out and keep to your songs”, at which Schubert silently gathered the pages of music and locked them up for ever in his desk.’ The String Quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’ thanks its name to the Andante, a series of five variations on the song of the same name written by Schubert in 1817 to a text by Matthias Claudius. In the song we hear the intense mortal fear of a young girl and her desperate pleas to the Grim Reaper to let her go. Death, posing as a good-natured friend, attempts to soothe her: ‘Sei guten Muts. Ich bin nicht wild, sollst sanft in meinen Armen schlafen’ (Be of good cheer. I am not fierce, you shall sleep softly in my arms.)
曲目:
01 - Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden'- I. Allegro
02 - Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden'- II. Andante con moto
03 - Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden'- III. Scherzo- Allegro molto
04 - Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden'- IV. Presto
05 - Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'- I. Allegro ma non troppo
06 - Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'- II. Lento
07 - Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'- III. Molto vivace
08 - Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'- IV. Finale- Vivace ma non troppo 试听: