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Ruth Leon recommends… Schubert: Octet in F Maj – Janine Jansen & Friends

Ruth Leon recommends…  Schubert: Octet in F Maj – Janine Jansen & Friends

Janine Jansen & Friends

Here’s a stunning live performance of Schubert’s Octet in F Maj D.803, from violinist Janine Jansen and her friends at the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival. It’s so good, I watched it twice.

The friends are Gregory Ahss [violin], Nimrod Guez [viola], Nicolas Alstaedt [cello], Rick Stotijn [double bass], Andreas Ottensamer [clarinet], Fredrik Ekdahl [bassoon] and Radek Barborák [horn].

This great Octet D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer because of the popularity of Beethoven’s E-flat Septet. Schubert accepted the commission but enriched the seven-part instrumentation of Beethoven’s septet with an additional violin to create an octet. It was first performed at Troyer’s townhouse in Vienna, where Troyer himself played the clarinet part.

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