I’m so excited to play the last movement Schubert Cello Quintet with the student participants at the WCMS Festival! It is a totally rousing, fun and boisterous movement, which I’ve always loved but never performed before. Schubert wrote an awful lot of notes for the first violinist to play, so I’m chipping away at the part, slowly but surely. In the meantime, I’m inspired by this video of the young Christian Tetzlaff and colleagues performing it. A very elegant performance! I love the way Tetzlaff plays these sparkling overlay passages while the second violin sings. Perhaps this means I’m really a second violinist at heart … - Ellen