Franz Schubert - A 'Project Climax' Subcategory - 12 CDs

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Schubert was the first true Romantic composer. His works are characterized by an unprecedented depth and intensity of emotion. He had a gift for lyrical melody, which shows most clearly in his more than six hundred songs. He forged new trails in compositional technique as well, experimenting with form and harmonic relations. These characteristics show most clearly in his final works, including the late chamber works, the "Unfinished" and "Great" Symphonies, and the final three Piano Sonatas.

Schubert lived in Vienna, the capital of the European musical world, his entire life. Born to a schoolmaster, he had little formal training in music theory. After following his father's profession for three years, in 1817 he decided to go it alone as a freelance composer. He was successful enough to maintain a living, but he was shy and unskilled in the art of self-promotion, and thus never achieved anything close to the fame that posterity would award him. In 1822 he contracted syphilis, which in those days was a death sentence. This condition had if anything a positive effect on his output: from 1824 to 1828 he enjoyed one of the most remarkable bursts of creative genius ever witnessed, composing his greatest masterpieces of chamber, orchestral, and vocal music. He died in 1828 still largely unknown to the public, and it is only through the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann that his works achieved widespread recognition.




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01 - 'Trout' Quintet & 'Death and the Maiden' - Amadeus Quartet (DG 1997)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32600369/064ATPACKUPE.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32596842/064ATPACKUPE.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32592697/064ATPACKUPE.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32589547/064ATPACKUPE.part1.rar

02 - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8 'Unfinished' - Carlos Kleiber & Wiener Philharmoniker (DG 1997)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32612394/065AINPOBEMJ.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32608267/065AINPOBEMJ.part1.rar

03 - Streichquintett in C-dur D 956 - Mstislav Rostropovich & Emerson String Quartet (DG 1992)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32631250/066AGHTUVMSP.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32623837/066AGHTUVMSP.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32619083/066AGHTUVMSP.part1.rar

04 - Impromptus D899 (Op.90) & D935 (Op.142) - Murray Perahia (Sony 1990)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32641911/067ATREBVCJL.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32636523/067ATREBVCJL.part1.rar

05 - Winterreise - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten (Decca 2000)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32663525/068AWAWOGGNF.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32659021/068AWAWOGGNF.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32651442/068AWAWOGGNF.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32646926/068AWAWOGGNF.part1.rar

06 - Symphony No. 9 in C major - Wagner; Siegfried Idyll - Sir Georg Solti (Decca 1981)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32703716/069ABBASWEAT.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32701562/069ABBASWEAT.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32699425/069ABBASWEAT.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32684484/069ABBASWEAT.part1.rar

07 - The Last Four Quartets - Rossi, Farulli & Quartetto Italiano (Philips 1995) 2 CDs
http://rapidshare.de/files/32746654/070AATMANOGS.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32741813/070AATMANOGS.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32736701/070AATMANOGS.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32730804/070AATMANOGS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32725586/070BEOGMGTME.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32715498/070BEOGMGTME.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32708522/070BEOGMGTME.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32706088/070BEOGMGTME.part1.rar

08 - Complete Trios - Beaux Arts Trio, Grumiaux Trio (Philips 1994) 2 CDs
http://rapidshare.de/files/32817264/071BPOXBEEGE.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32813307/071BPOXBEEGE.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32795512/071BPOXBEEGE.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32791450/071APOXBEEGE.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32787629/071APOXBEEGE.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32751290/071APOXBEEGE.part1.rar

09 - Die Späten Klaviersonaten D958-960, Drei Klavierstücke D946 - Alfred Brendel (Philips 1994) 2 CDs
http://rapidshare.de/files/32829596/072BBRICOTGJ.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32826229/072BBRICOTGJ.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32823070/072ABRICOTGJ.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32820409/072ABRICOTGJ.part1.rar

10 - Piano Quintet in A major D. 667 ''Trout'' - Merrett, Clifford Curzon (BBC 1999) 2 CDs
http://rapidshare.de/files/34105321/B.S.PC.ASQ.CC.1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34096474/B.S.PC.ASQ.CC.1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34105543/B.S.PC.ASQ.CC.1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34108710/B.S.PC.ASQ.CC.2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34133069/B.S.PC.ASQ.CC.2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34124642/B.S.PC.ASQ.Cvrs.rar

11 - 21 Lieder - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore (EMI 1990)
http://rapidshare.de/files/32838440/074ASOETWETR.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32835471/074ASOETWETR.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/32832488/074ASOETWETR.part1.rar

12 - Schubert & Spohr; Octets - Wiener Oktett (Decca2000)
http://rapidshare.de/files/34154708/SO.SO.WO.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34185559/SO.SO.WO.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34186315/SO.SO.WO.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34182931/SO.SO.WO.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/34128151/SO.SO.WO.Cvrs.rar