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Schubert - Quintette imaginaire | Alpha ALPHA1157

Schubert - Quintette imaginaire

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1157

Barcode: 3701624511572

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 5th September 2025

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About

Sandrine Piau admits that she has always been fascinated not only by Schubert’s music but also by the genre of the string quartet. "The endless quest for the pure gesture in which we lose ourselves in order to become one with each other reminds me of the aquatic ballets in old-fashioned musicals, when female swimmers formed images of perfect flowers”. Thanks to the Psophos Quartet, her dream has now been realised; together they present a magnificent programme of transcriptions. "Between the hair of the bows and the texture of the voice, our instruments blend and form an imaginary Schubert quintet".

Reviews

Sandrine Piau does not seem destined to make a typical Schubert album. Though her clear, precise voice, musical intelligence and relationship with language were made for this composer (among others), her recordings feature Schubert in mixed-composer programmes, in collaborative transcriptions for viola with Antoine Tamestit (Naïve, 2010) or, as in this new collection, lieder with piano accompaniment replaced by string quartet. It’s a subtly fundamental change since the piano is innately percussive and the string quartet is lyrical. Yet these transcriptions by composer Jacques Gandard work so well that the album has a meant-to-be quality.  David Patrick Stearns
Gramophone October 2025

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