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Natalie Clein
The Strad
|April 2017
For the british cellist, Schubert's profound string quintet in C major D956 is filled with undiscovered secrets that can take a lifetime to unravel.
I’ve played the Schubert Quintet around 25 times on stage and I adore it. It’s a piece that has everything: it feels like a search for absolute truth, beauty and purity, although it also has a very earthy character to it. I nearly always choose to play the second cello part, which is beautifully written. Schubert effectively turns the first cello into an extra tenor voice and adds this incredible lower bass part, which I think is the heart of the piece; it’s so exciting to be right at the bottom of this incredibly profound story. It’s a piece that’s full of secrets and as I’ve grown older and more familiar with the Quintet, some of those secrets have revealed themselves – but there are so many more to be discovered.
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