Schubert: "Die Forelle" (The Trout), mandolin & piano

[Martin Jonas]

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Die Forelle / The Trout, Op. 32, D. 550
Solo mandolin performed by Martin Jonas.
Piano accompaniment performed by Héctor Valls, downloaded from IMSLP under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license.

This is an instrumental version of Schubert's Lied, transposed to A major from the original key of D-flat major.

Score and MP3 of the piano accompaniment are at IMSLP:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Forelle,_D...hubert,_Franz)

I am playing my 1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin on this recording.

This is a fun piece to play on mandolin, and much easier in A major than the original D-flat major. More lively than most of my recent recordings with Héctor's piano karaoke tracks -- I like the way the tremolo picks up the rhythm of those slippery sextuplets that imitate the trout movement.



Martin

[JH Murray]

The Trout Quintet was one of the first pieces that really drew me in to classical music. Nicely done.