{"id":4265,"date":"2010-03-23T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:16:17","slug":"sublime-schubert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/sublime-schubert\/","title":{"rendered":"sublime schubert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a violist, I&#8217;m a big fan of Schubert&#8217;s Sonata for Arpeggione (an now-defunct six-stringed instrument resembling a cello).\u00a0 It has all the great melodic lines that you expect of Schubert, and it&#8217;s one of the great pieces written for any instrument.\u00a0 Cellists like to claim it as their own, but there is nary an instrument that it hasn&#8217;t been stolen and arranged for.<\/p>\n<p>French cellist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/indexengl.shtml\">Jean-Guihen Queyras<\/a> has long been a favorite musician of mine, and I recently discovered his recording of the Arpeggione Sonata with pianist Alexandre Tharaud (along with other Viennese works by Berg, Schubert, and Webern).\u00a0 It&#8217;s an astonishing recording.\u00a0 The Schubert is masterfully played, with such a variety of colors and the use of anywhere from no to quite a lot of vibrato, and Queyras simply makes me forget that he&#8217;s playing an instrument, it simply becomes an extension of his musical will.\u00a0 Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;npa=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=dailyobservat-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B000H0MGZU\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a violist, I&#8217;m a big fan of Schubert&#8217;s Sonata for Arpeggione (an now-defunct six-stringed instrument resembling a cello).\u00a0 It has all the great melodic lines that you expect of Schubert, and it&#8217;s one of the great pieces written for any instrument.\u00a0 Cellists like to claim it as their own, but there is nary an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[168,135],"tags":[53,483],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recordings-music","category-soloists-recitals","tag-piano","tag-schubert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-16N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4255,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/this-weeks-ipod-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":4265,"position":0},"title":"this week&#8217;s ipod mix","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a the recordings that I'm planning on listening to this week (finally - time to do some listening!): Ian Bostridge - Songs of Faure, Debussy & Poulenc with Belcea Quartet, Julius Drake and Leon Bosch Richard Danielpour: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4 American String Quartet Bartok:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;recordings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/recordings-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0002XDOFI","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13232,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/19\/on-schubert\/","url_meta":{"origin":4265,"position":1},"title":"on schubert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the music of Franz Schubert. From his quaint early efforts at the string quartet to his ultimate, supreme mastery of the quartet form at the end of his too-short life, Schubert never fails to tug at my heartstrings. Like all of the great composers, to my ears, Schubert's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12681,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/31\/cortona-trio-plays-schubert\/","url_meta":{"origin":4265,"position":2},"title":"cortona trio plays schubert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got a chance to sample this live video of the Cortona Trio (Amy Schwartz Moretti, Julie Albers, and Elizabeth Pridgen) playing the great Schubert B-flat piano trio. 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