Two stars from different generations, artists of the highest caliber, mark their first collaboration with an album devoted to one of the supreme landmarks of classical music.
Anne-Sophie Mutter, who in 2016 celebrated the 40th anniversary of her professional debut, and Daniil Trifonov, now in his mid-twenties, joined forces with three outstanding young string playing alumni of the Mutter Foundation at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus in June to perform Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, popularly known as the “Trout” Quintet.
They also explored the composer’s Notturno, a wonderful late work for violin, cello and piano, and arrangements of his songs Ständchen and Ave Maria for violin and piano.
Here is the opening of the amazing Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert:
