The violinist Guillaume Chilemme and the pianist Nathanaël Gouin have imagined a Schubertian sunny programme. If the Viennese composer usually touches us with the tragic echoes of his language, here, though, he delights us with the vital and smiling energy.

The disc opens on a musical meeting with friends, exactly like the one that preceded the composition of the Quintet in A major. Nicknamed “The Trout”, the work indeed picks up its fourth movement’s melody to the eponymous lied. This score is not a traditional quintet for piano and string quartet but for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. It creates a summer climate that doesn’t fade afterwards.

In fact, the programme then becomes more intimate with the Fantasia for violin and piano in C major. The same pleasant atmosphere bathed in sun emerges. Here again, the instruments draw their lyricism from the inexhaustible voice of Schubert, Lied’s father.

The wanderings of Schubert's inspiration pass through the paths of fantasy – the German Phantasie refers to the realm of imagination and dream – and meet those of friendship in music. A territory where Guillaume Chilemme, Nathanaël Gouin and their guests give free rein to the inventions of their complicity.