Franz Schubert - Quintet in C

Classical music you should hear before you die.

It may enhance your visit to the planet — as it continues to do mine.

Number One of a series.

Franz Schubert — String Quintet in C Major, D. 956

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54 minutes.

If you're pressed for time, do take 15 minutes to step into 

the evolving passion flames of the Adagio HERE.

Played by The Borodin Quartet With Alexander Buzlov on 2nd cello. 

The Quintet was Schubert’s last completed chamber work. Just a few weeks after having completed the Quintet, on November 19, 1828, Schubert died — at age 31.

It is widely believed to be among the handful of greatest chamber works ever composed.

Schubert unearthed, tapped into hope, fear, quietude, anger, patience, the sense of peace that comes with simple chore, the terrifying and indifferent stance of nature . . . never fails to amaze 

. . . his simplicity . . . how he grasps the changeable weather of human emotions.