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Ades: Piano Quintet; Schubert: "Trout" Quintet. Thomas Ades, piano; Arditti Quartet; members of the Belcea Quartet. EMI 7243 5 57664 2.

The gimmick here is the coupling of a modern piano quintet, Thomas Ades's 2001 piece, with a traditional quintet, Schubert's 1819 "Trout." In theory, we're supposed to hear, uh, I'm not sure what. How much alike they are? They aren't. How much different they are? That goes without saying. How each composer was trying out something new and different? More likely.

In his booklet essay, writer Tom Service tries valiantly to make some comparisons in the two works. He says of Ades's newer quintet, "... the architecture of ...

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