Time & location
13 Jun 2026, 7:30 pm
St Mary-le-More Church, Market Place, Wallingford OX10 0EG, UK
About the event
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C minor
Interval
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (The Trout)
A performance of Schubert’s ”Trout Quintet” is always an occasion! Its festive, high-spirited mood is a complete contrast to the dark soul-searching of much of his late chamber music, reflecting the music’s origins as a summer holiday piece written for friends. The fourth of its five movements is a set of variations on his own song Die Forelle (The Trout).
Schubert wrote for a complement of strings including a double bass, rather than the more usual second violin. How kind of Vaughan Williams to solve the potential programming conundrum with his own 1903 C minor Piano Quintet for the same forces. This work was written early in the composer’s career, and is still very much in thrall to the German Romantic school, especially Brahms. After a few early performances Vaughan Williams…