Culinary Sunday Matinee No. 2

"A work like something from another world" – this is how critic Joachim Kaiser describes Franz Schubert's String Quintet in C major. Indeed, what the composer created just a few weeks before his untimely death in 1828 transcends the boundaries of classical chamber music, and not just because of its extraordinary playing time of around fifty minutes. Instead of the second viola, which was common at the time, Schubert uses a second cello – a trick ...