Schubertiade 3 - Génération @ Aix

This year's Génération @ Aix concert is a perfect illustration of the “blend of generations”: shoulder to shoulder with established musicians such as Austrian Alois Posch , solo bassist with the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic, and the viola player Gérard Caussé , there are young stars of no more than thirty, such as the pianist David Kadouch , the cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière , the youngest member of the group, and Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier , a Moldavian violinist, will play pieces written by composers who were just their age at the time.

Eternal hit from the classical repertoire, Schubert 's Piano Quintet in A major owes its moniker to the next-to-last movement in the form of variations on a lieder called The Trout : a bubbling cauldron of energy, a page in which the young Schubert borrowed a certain form of quintessentially Viennese lightness and virtuosity from Mozart. The Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor by Mendelssohn doesn't need a double bass and is as meditative and shot through with gravity as the Schubert Quintet is energetic.