Friday, 4 November 2011

Schubert

Let's have a look at what we have on our shelves.
This week I looked at Schubert 1797-1828 and found out that, like Mozart, he had a hard but productive life and died young. He was born after Mozart died but lived in Vienna at the same time as Beethoven, meeting him later in his life, dying a year after him, and is buried not far from him. Laws at the time prevented him from marrying the girl he loved.
I read Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Good Classical CD Guide by John Cargher 1994[he recommends Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”and Rosamunde (Incidental Music)] and Schubert's Theatre of Song with accompanying CD of Lieder from the town library.
We have a CD of Trout Quintet and String Trios D471 and D581, as well as Pavarotti singing Ave Maria, and Nocturne in E flat [17], Trout piano quintet in A [18], String quintet in C [28], Ann die Musik sung by Lauris Elms [41] and Impromptu No 3 in G flat conducted by Wilhelm Kempff [77] on the ABC Classic 100 set. the Bridgend Male Voice choir sings Sanctus on their CD, although it does not say which mass.
In choir we have sung Schubert's Mass in G at Singing from Scratch in St Luke's Toowoomba in September 2010, and have been doing the German Mass in F this year.
I also have two piano pieces: a Waltz in A major and Landler in G major. Will I get to play these as part of this exercise?

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