Franz Schubert Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major D. 487 for piano, violin, viola and cello
Rochester Chamber Players Eugene List, piano Carroll Glenn, violin Francis Tursi, viola Alan Harris, cello
The least familiar of all Schubert’s works for piano and strings is the only one he wrote for piano quartet, the Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major (D. 487), composed in 1816 for his friend Heinrich Grob, an amateur cellist. It is not Grob’s instrument that is most preminent in the work, however, but Schubert’s own [...], the Adagio and Rondo Concertante may be regarded as the closest Schubert ever came to producing a piano concerto. (From the CD booklet notes by Gregor Philipp)