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Dear Audio engineers: Thanks, the sound is amazing, the instruments are amazing. The players are out of this world: dynamics, colour, dextery, musicality, just wow. Thanks for this!!
The sound is very clear and very pure, but as a musician I am used to listening to recordings in which the sound has undergone more extensive reverb treatment, so that it resembles the sound in a concert hall.
If anyone watching/listening hasn’t heard a string quartet of this caliber live and close up, you are missing out on one of life’s most incredible pleasures. This is a wonderful recording, but to hear them live will give you goosebumps and make you wonder how such musical instruments and compositions were created and played by humans.
Don’t have the words to say just how marvellous NPR Tiny Desk is.The range of music is phenomenal and it’s expanded my horizons hugely. A big “Thank you.“
Oh man, the Emerson String Quartet hold such a special place in my heart... when I was in 7th grade I was put in a quartet with three other students from my middle school and we played just the little beginning section to the 2nd movement of Schubert's Death and the Maiden; it was my introduction to chamber music. For practically the entire year, I listened to the Emerson String Quartet's recording of Death and the Maiden every morning during my walk to school on my little Apple iPod with the wired earbuds. I knew that recording and their interpretation of Death and the Maiden like the back of my hand, and I've loved chamber music ever since! :)
I love how NPR is expanding and is having more classical musicians on and plenty of other genres!! Even though there is a slim chance he would do this but they should totally try and get pianist Yunchan Lim (who won the 2022 Cliburn) to do a tiny desk concert! I loved seeing Yo-Yo Ma's tiny desk concert too!!
I’ve been listening to this quartet on Spotify for sometime, but I’ve never watched a video of them perform. I hope they enjoy their retirement, wish I had seen them. Amazing performers.
How bold, thank you NPR. I so wish tiny desk suscribers were curious enough to watch this tremendous performance. Ravel is my all-time favorite composer.
Part of why I love watching Tiny Desk is because I get to see plenty of musicians, bands and performers making their art, when I never would have seen them otherwise. Keep up the great work :)
Elegiac indeed. I am brought to tears. I’m grateful to have found this glorious performance today by one of the preeminent string quartets of the last half century as they draw their career to a close. Thanks also for introducing me to the tender and powerful work of George Walker. All my best wishes to these devoted artists as they end one chapter and begin another.
Wow, 47 years? What an achievement! This is the first time I’m listening to your quartet and you sound amazing!Also, thank you for sharing the name George Walker. I’m always looking for modern composers and he sounds like someone I would enjoy.
Great programming!! BRAVO to this first class string quartet. You look pretty young for 50 years performing. Thank you for your many years and good health to each one of you! Classical music lover❤
Super dope!!! Huge congratulations to this quartet, they have given so much to music and the world! Also love the NPR staff who wrote the description - "a dash of Haydn as a witty amuse Bouche" 😂
Thank you for playing together and bringing beautiful music to our lives. The George Walker piece brings tears to you eyes. We need more George Walker in our lives.
I'm a huge fan of Tiny Desk and a huge fan of the Emerson Quartet. What a wonderful performance. I think it's brilliant that Tiny Desk is opening to classical music interpreters. Keep them coming!
ESQ=marvelous musical storytellers. This set list gave us a taste of their range, wit, energy, and compassion. Thank you for this delightful performance. I’m so glad to have been introduced to George Walker’s music.
I credit the Emersons with winning me over to string quartets (and chamber music in general, with which I was largely unfamiliar at the time) when I worked behind-the-scenes for the Aspen Music Festival (1987-91). They were an audience favorite and justifiably so; the first time I heard them I thought "Their sound is so tight and focused it's as if their instruments were carved from the same piece of wood."
One of my favorite String quartet ! I really wanted to see them playing in paris at foundation Louis Vitton with Barbara Hannigan before their retirement but I couldn’t. So sorry that we can’t hear their music anymore.
Boy, nothing makes a wonderful and heartwarming dedication of an elegy written by a composer who passed in recent memory better than getting an add break for a crummy mobile game. Thanks TH-cam... Performance was quite beautiful!
I remember when the Emerson Quartet first started. - with David Finkle- eons ago! They have given us so much wonderful music over the years . I’m sorry to see them go but they certainly deserve to retire! Thank you and enjoy your retirement!
Thank you for sharing Walker’s touching and complex execution piece. Beautiful. I will learn more from his music. Congratulations Emerson Quartet. You are great.
I've watched Tiny Desk for years---and have found new artists and enjoyed ones I knew--and such a wide selection. Enjoyed this so much--seems I write that each concert LOL.
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Want to play your own Tiny Desk concert? Unsigned musicians, enter the 2024 Tiny Desk Contest between Jan. 23 and Feb. 21. Learn more: npr.org/tinydeskcontest.
Dear Audio engineers: Thanks, the sound is amazing, the instruments are amazing. The players are out of this world: dynamics, colour, dextery, musicality, just wow. Thanks for this!!
Indeed, the acoustics are always first class.
I totally AGREE just superb sound in this concert I am so glad I found it!!!
The sound is very clear and very pure, but as a musician I am used to listening to recordings in which the sound has undergone more extensive reverb treatment, so that it resembles the sound in a concert hall.
Just...yes,queen!
If anyone watching/listening hasn’t heard a string quartet of this caliber live and close up, you are missing out on one of life’s most incredible pleasures. This is a wonderful recording, but to hear them live will give you goosebumps and make you wonder how such musical instruments and compositions were created and played by humans.
Very true. Live music hits different.
I sat in the middle of an old time string band and yes i will never forget it
Very true!
I played in one
Wonderfull how wide is this channel thanks… so much..
Don’t have the words to say just how marvellous NPR Tiny Desk is.The range of music is phenomenal and it’s expanded my horizons hugely. A big “Thank you.“
Thank you to a legendary quartet for so many years of beautiful music and an impressive body of work!
Oh man, the Emerson String Quartet hold such a special place in my heart... when I was in 7th grade I was put in a quartet with three other students from my middle school and we played just the little beginning section to the 2nd movement of Schubert's Death and the Maiden; it was my introduction to chamber music. For practically the entire year, I listened to the Emerson String Quartet's recording of Death and the Maiden every morning during my walk to school on my little Apple iPod with the wired earbuds. I knew that recording and their interpretation of Death and the Maiden like the back of my hand, and I've loved chamber music ever since! :)
I love how NPR is expanding and is having more classical musicians on and plenty of other genres!! Even though there is a slim chance he would do this but they should totally try and get pianist Yunchan Lim (who won the 2022 Cliburn) to do a tiny desk concert! I loved seeing Yo-Yo Ma's tiny desk concert too!!
Definitely also want to see Mikyung Sung on!
Emerson’s recordings of the Bartok quartets are immensely important to me, wonderful to see they’re as brilliant as ever
Oh yes I've also got that one, double CD on Deutsche Grammophon, thanks for reminding me. Time to find a working CD player! :)
The fact that you feature musicians from Kirk Franklin to the Emerson String Quartet is just incredible -- thank you so much Tiny Desk!
Haydn 0:00
Beethoven 4:23
Walker 9:00
Ravel 17:16
Thank you!
I love how these musicians look at each other in an expressive manner, as they play
the magic of chamber music❤
Gorgeous string ensemble - great way to start the week!
I’ve been listening to this quartet on Spotify for sometime, but I’ve never watched a video of them perform. I hope they enjoy their retirement, wish I had seen them. Amazing performers.
How bold, thank you NPR. I so wish tiny desk suscribers were curious enough to watch this tremendous performance. Ravel is my all-time favorite composer.
So good to have the Emerson String Quartet here at NPR At Tiny Desk. Congrats to ESQ for this performance and for your 50 years of amazing work !!!
Part of why I love watching Tiny Desk is because I get to see plenty of musicians, bands and performers making their art, when I never would have seen them otherwise. Keep up the great work :)
Elegiac indeed. I am brought to tears. I’m grateful to have found this glorious performance today by one of the preeminent string quartets of the last half century as they draw their career to a close. Thanks also for introducing me to the tender and powerful work of George Walker. All my best wishes to these devoted artists as they end one chapter and begin another.
Killer performance and such a great taste for choosing their repertoire !
Excellent, excellent, excellent. Thank you for sharing this.
Wow, 47 years? What an achievement! This is the first time I’m listening to your quartet and you sound amazing!Also, thank you for sharing the name George Walker. I’m always looking for modern composers and he sounds like someone I would enjoy.
I feel privileged of havig heard them perform the Art of Fugue. An unforgettable ensemble!
Great programming!! BRAVO to this first class string quartet. You look pretty young for 50 years performing. Thank you for your many years and good health to each one of you! Classical music lover❤
Legendary! Tiny Desk is a musical treasure trove. Such great, great music across all genres. Love!
Very moved by the Walker piece. Thank you.
Super dope!!! Huge congratulations to this quartet, they have given so much to music and the world! Also love the NPR staff who wrote the description - "a dash of Haydn as a witty amuse Bouche" 😂
Thank you for playing together and bringing beautiful music to our lives. The George Walker piece brings tears to you eyes. We need more George Walker in our lives.
I'm a huge fan of Tiny Desk and a huge fan of the Emerson Quartet. What a wonderful performance. I think it's brilliant that Tiny Desk is opening to classical music interpreters. Keep them coming!
ESQ=marvelous musical storytellers. This set list gave us a taste of their range, wit, energy, and compassion. Thank you for this delightful performance. I’m so glad to have been introduced to George Walker’s music.
This should have millions of views.
Bravo.. I have many Emerson SQ recordings.. Wonderful to listen their set in tiny desk setting.
They are incredible; you can see the years of experience in how their bows seem to float over the strings.
So hard to believe this group has retired! Thank you for the memories and timeless recordings!
I credit the Emersons with winning me over to string quartets (and chamber music in general, with which I was largely unfamiliar at the time) when I worked behind-the-scenes for the Aspen Music Festival (1987-91). They were an audience favorite and justifiably so; the first time I heard them I thought "Their sound is so tight and focused it's as if their instruments were carved from the same piece of wood."
This is a great work of NPR tiny desk and very proper, elegnt farewell. Thank you dear members of Emerson for all these years🎉
As someone who was like 7th chair in his 6th grade orchestra, I’m impressed
A wonderful quartet. So many brilliant performances.
Can't think of a better place for a string quartet. You can hear the raw sound from the source. They're amazing!
I love the juxtaposition between the music and the cartoonish background
The dynamics are on point! Lovely. ❤
What a way to start a Monday morning 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thank You 🌷
Been listening to these guys for years
They are simply out of this world fantastic 👏
Four marvellous musical conversations. Thank you! And may your individual futures be as bright as your past has been. We will miss you. 💕
This was such a great performance. Thank you!! I especially enjoyed the George Walker piece. It invoked tears I wasnt even sure were there.
One of my favorite String quartet ! I really wanted to see them playing in paris at foundation Louis Vitton with Barbara Hannigan before their retirement but I couldn’t. So sorry that we can’t hear their music anymore.
Magnifique 👍💯🙏 Merci
Boy, nothing makes a wonderful and heartwarming dedication of an elegy written by a composer who passed in recent memory better than getting an add break for a crummy mobile game. Thanks TH-cam... Performance was quite beautiful!
Tiny Desk Concert(책방콘서트) 상 받아야 합니다. 쟝르와 국경을 넘은 보석을 찾아다가 정갈하게 전달해 주시다니,,,노고에 감사드려요!!
Watched them this spring in Prague on their farewell tour. Legends. They shall be missed!
I remember when the Emerson Quartet first started. - with David Finkle- eons ago! They have given us so much wonderful music over the years . I’m sorry to see them go but they certainly deserve to retire!
Thank you and enjoy your retirement!
Thank you for sharing Walker’s touching and complex execution piece. Beautiful. I will learn more from his music. Congratulations Emerson Quartet. You are great.
What a beautiful way to start my day! Thank you!
I've watched Tiny Desk for years---and have found new artists and enjoyed ones I knew--and such a wide selection. Enjoyed this so much--seems I write that each concert LOL.
Wonderful! Thank you so much for this
I was spellbound the entire performance. Fantastic!
Amazing performance! Amazing sound by Josh Rogosin and Hannah Gluvna
Thank you N.P.R!
Thank you for this video - I love Emerson String Quartet. Such beautiful playing.
Amazing performance!! 👏 👏👏👏👏
Thank you!!!!
Thank you NPR! Their recording of Bartok's 6 String Quartets is my 'go too'.
Thank you!! Beautiful music!!
So wonderful to see the experts
So happy that we saw/heard you at South Mountain. Always wonderful and peerless!
What a wonderful Tiny Desk to wake up to this morning!
Thank you for your huge work and music
Love them! This is stellar playing.
Great String Quartet, wonderful musicians !
I need a whole week of it!
Thank you.... i loved and enjoyed specially... the third one...
LOVE this. Thank you 😍
Amazing! Thank you so much!
MARVELOUS!! Thank you!!!
Oh that third piece was stunning! How beautiful.
SUPERB.
Wow! Thank you Emerson Quartet for your years of making wonderful music! Love to see you here on NPR Tiny Desk!
Great music, quartet, engineering sound and production.
I literally named my kid after the American philosopher as well and have never stumbled upon these guys. love tiny desk sm
Mind-blowingily awesomee🎉🎉🎉
Incredible!!!!!!
Delightful!
Saw these guys live on the Titanic. Wild show!
Beautiful work...
Very nice! APPLAUSE APPLAUSE!
Wonderful!!!
I love American classical people!
So good!!
We love the Emerson String Quartet!
Thanks!
So beautiful ❤
thank you!
Those seemingly random string plucks were soo perfectly placed. God that was beautiful.
This is remarkable, thanks a lot!
Cool to see them on here! I have their Shostakovich string quartet collection. Really good stuff!
Chello guy is absolutely Da Bomb!
Najwyższa półka artystyczna ❤
Bravo!!!
wow, wow, wow!
Amazing.
Bravo 👏🏽 😢
Class act...very enjoyable