Schubert loved Beethoven. It's a pity 29 year old Schubert died just a year after his friend Beethoven passed at 56. Schubert was in Beethoven's funeral.procession and requested that he be buried near him.
It is amazing how music before your generation existed and it wasn't just banging on rocks. It's almost like people before you have created music. You should really broaden your horizons. There are a ton of "hidden gems" when it comes to classical music.
When he said “it’s not Mozart, it’s Beethoven,” it was one of the worst indictments anyone could have thrown at Germany. How could a culture that produced this do what they did? Sadly I’m afraid we are all capable of such contradiction
1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto expressivo 0:01-7:24 2. Allegro molto vivace 7:26-10:24 3. Allegro moderato - Adagio 10:24-11:11 4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile 11:13-25:03 5. Presto 25:06-30:17 6. Adagio quasi un poco andante 30:20-32:38 7. Allegro 32:38-end What a spectacular performance of an amazing work! Hope this helps!
Probably the best cello recording I've heard. On my grado headphones the coughing is panoramic and omnipresent. I thought people in the room with me were coughing. Probably 200 coughs of various magnitudes in 39 minutes.
"Beethoven wants to preserve an element of uncertainty in his music (this song), making our brains beg for the one chord that he refuses to give us. He saves that chord for the end." from Jonah Lehrer's article on music and the emotion
Beethoven considered it his most perfect single work and Schubert requested that his friends string quartet play it for him... remarking "After this, what is left for us to write?", Schubert died 5 days later. So, that's some pretty solid statements there.
Desgarradoramente trágico el primer movimiento de este, el más íntimo y profundo pronunciamiento musical, directo del alma de un Beethoven que echa una mira atrás a su vida, con resignación y la sabiduría que dan los años. De 40 minutos, esta obra tiene una duración de sinfonía y reta su propio género de cámara con sus 7 movimientos. En el centro hay un andante de 15 minutos, precioso pero impreciso, ¿qué nos quiere decir el maestro? Este cuarteto, fácilmente el más grandioso jamás compuesto, termina en una furiosa determinación, esta es la vida y no hay marcha atrás, abrázala tal cual. Excepcional interpretación de este conjunto danés.
Oops. Big fingers, small keys ... I agree -- the concentration needed in order to do justice to convey the degree of emotional expression and intellectual depth of this quartet
I was going to reply to your comment in Spanish, but I know this is the most magnificent piece of music ever written on earth. My brother, Willis E Overholt is now in heaven signing his signature of approval.
I wrote this down when I first heard it. On the old "Charlie Rose Show, on PBS (I wish it was still on...miss it.), interviewing Andre Previn. Andre said that he wanted this played at his funeral. This was on April 1, 2009. I don't know if he ever got his wish. Rest in Peace.
I just listened to this same ensemble and quartet FROM LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER of WFMT in Chicago. They swallowed the elixir of Beethoven's and became the music
Not even the ignorant clapping of some public at the end of the Presto was enough to stain this magnificent rendition (the best recording I know) of op. 131
Why I never attend live performances anymore. Coughing, perfume and tobacco smells,talking,rustling of programs and candy wrappers. Give me a solid studio performance in the comfort and silence of my living room.
Honestly just here for the part after 30:10, saw it on Band of Brother, then when it jumps to part 7 allegro, amazing, only play this and Chopin Noct Op. 9 No. 2 and always get ask what is playing because it sounds amazing, I listen to trap in Chicago so shows the different type of genre I listen to. BRAVO!!!!!!!!
I wouldn't say he was a genius. He was more of a hard worker. If you compare his trascripts with mozart's beethovens is scratched out everywhere with revisions trying to get it right where mozart just writes everything from start to finish in one go.
@@nvcool1 Of coarse Beethoven was a genius. He revisioned would music could express. Mozart of course was a genius as well, but not as personal and original as Beethoven.
@@nvcool1 No he was a genius. Look at an analysis of the counterpoint in this piece, no one, not even mozart comes close (Beethoven uses retrograde, inversion, augmentation, stretto etc mozart NEVER use this many techniques). Plus Beethoven was the greatest improvisor in his time.
@@nielssvendsen2028 Just a personal opinion. I like to use the analogy of Einstein-Mozart vs Elon Musk-Beethoven. Born prodigy vs Game changer. Feel like the personality fits too.
If you are distracted by the coughing you are not listening to the music. Some of us learnt these quartets from 78s - pretty well used ones, too - or AM radio. The artificial (these days digitally enforced) silence which is now thought to be required for music has been around for just about 40 years - if you ever get it. Do you really have a totally silent listening environment at home, even? If you were listening to the coughing on this recording with even half an ear, you'd have realised that there were a number of folk trying quite hard not to cough and not managing to. That was what you always got or get with the price of your concert ticket. No use complaining to the composer, or even sympathising with him. He'd probably have been overwhelmed with Freude to hear even a single cough.
Sounds like the same person...over & over & over...how selfish, disrespectful & irresponsible...a) to not stay home if youre sick & b) not to bring cough drops when you KNOW youre sick...& apparently not caring how disresprctful it is to the performers/whole musical experience...whew, Im done now...
Beethoven called it his best work. I don’t believe that, but what do I know. Many artists like things they’ve done which aren’t always the public’s favourite.
Bravi ?? !! Please don’t take this as a criticism, just wondering if this is what you meant. I’m pretty sure congrats to several people collectively would have the i suffix but stand to be corrected! Anyway, I agree!!
There have been scores of first-rate performances/recordings of the Beethoven quartets. That having been accomplished, why don't they play other works then? Well, if you're a mountain climber there's only one Everest. This is a most uncommonly fine offering of this music from beyond; can't imagine this any more lucid, expressive or comprehensive. Bravo!
Wagner - who wrote an interpretation of it as a day in Beethoven's life - in his late years (around the time of "Parsifal") used to coach string quartets in how to play this piece.
A live music performance has its points.... But I despise sitting in a row in an auditorium ..everyone squeezed together facing forward. Surrounded by people with bad scents, bad breath, clothes that rustle, programs that rustle, hard candy wrappers that rustle, talking..keeping time with their foot, tobacco stink and applauding between movements and too soon after the final note. NO. I sit in my big chair in the living room, lights low, best quality headphones and sound system... and I am lost in the music. The world goes away. Can't have that experience in a concert HALL.
Goddamn, this music is so tragically beautiful. Stop listening to the 2 minute BS that's on the radio nowadays. Rock and roll used to be well orchestrated.
Can you tell me why the number of the quartet is not included in the title of the video? The vast majority of people, even amateurs, know Beethoven's quartets by their number, and not by their opus number or whether they are in C or D.... . ¿Se puede saber por qué no viene en el titulo del video el numero del cuarteto ...? La inmensa mayoría de la gente, incluso de los aficionados, conoce los cuartetos de Beethoven por su numero, y no por su numero de opus o si es en C, o en D....
I feel so sorry for these wonderful musicians to have their hard work of playing a sacred Beethoven piece for a huge audience of avid devoted listeners, only to have an extremely SELFISH cougher ruin so many portions of the entire length of the piece. I mean why couldn’t he have left the room after the first three congested, LOUDLY DISRUPTIVE outbursts?
I'm not a fan of Beethoven but would like to be one, and better informed. I liked this, can anyone recommend other works of his I could listen to to get my foot in the door with him. I love baroque music, if that helps. TIA.
I would suggest to you his most popular piano sonatas: numbers 8, 14, 21, 23. If you like them, also try 29. These are “obvious” recommendations but popular for a reason.
I have quite a few: Symphonies: 3rd (1st movement banger, but the other ones are also great), 5th (1st movement is the most famous piece in music history, and with good reason), 7th (famous slow 2nd movement), 9th/Ode to joy (every single movement is perfection) Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Piano sonata No. 14 and No. 23 And this piece (obviously), especially the 7th movement.
@@BRNRDNCKIncorrect. No.14 is one of His weakest works, yet is the second most popular Beethoven piece. Popularity and quality are inversely proportional. Remember this for the rest of your life.
Upon listening to a performance of Op 131, Schubert said, “After this, what is left for us to write?
As Schubert was dying - his friends came to play for him. This was his last request. Op. 131 by the giant composer, Beethoven.
Schubert loved Beethoven. It's a pity 29 year old Schubert died just a year after his friend Beethoven passed at 56. Schubert was in Beethoven's funeral.procession and requested that he be buried near him.
The second adagio was in Band of Brothers and brought me to this work. It’s one of the greatest of Beethoven works. Achingly beautiful
BoB brought me here also. I've never heard of this before but now every time I hear it, it brings me sadness.
It is amazing how music before your generation existed and it wasn't just banging on rocks. It's almost like people before you have created music. You should really broaden your horizons. There are a ton of "hidden gems" when it comes to classical music.
I tell you one thing about the krauts.... They sure clean up good.
Re-watch Band of Brothers now...Episode 9 brought me here, too.
When he said “it’s not Mozart, it’s Beethoven,” it was one of the worst indictments anyone could have thrown at Germany. How could a culture that produced this do what they did? Sadly I’m afraid we are all capable of such contradiction
1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto expressivo 0:01-7:24
2. Allegro molto vivace 7:26-10:24
3. Allegro moderato - Adagio 10:24-11:11
4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile 11:13-25:03
5. Presto 25:06-30:17
6. Adagio quasi un poco andante 30:20-32:38
7. Allegro 32:38-end
What a spectacular performance of an amazing work! Hope this helps!
Grazie
Thank you!
Opus 131: one of the summits of human creation.
Vous avez raison, et c'était aussi, dit-on, le quatuor préféré de Beethoven ! J'aimerais que le premier mouvement ne finisse jamais…
Amazing. That's all I can say.
Hey man, amen
Probably the best cello recording I've heard. On my grado headphones the coughing is panoramic and omnipresent. I thought people in the room with me were coughing. Probably 200 coughs of various magnitudes in 39 minutes.
Listen again, I just coughed at 4:34, you might hear it... a short, sharp bark in c flat.
Who could not be thrilled by that first chord of the last movement!😳
"Beethoven wants to preserve an element of uncertainty in his music (this song), making our brains beg for the one chord that he refuses to give us. He saves that chord for the end." from Jonah Lehrer's article on music and the emotion
Thats exactly how I feel in the lead-up to 22:58. The two minutes that follow are a rollercoaster ride.
it's a PIECE
I read that in my ielts exam
after doing ielts reading test i came here
Can't you hear the human spirit singing in this one?@@tanyatang6201
I was there. An unforgettable night. I remember I could not stop crying!
Late Beethoven has made me cry so much over the last 50 years
This is my favorite performance of Beethoven Op. 131!
Exceptionally good performance of a monumental work.
Absolutely Ant Cal
Masters of their craft, truly an eargasm.
Probably the best String Quartet ever written?
Possibly... I can't get enough of it and I'm definitely more of as symphony fan with Beethoven but THIS IS KILLER
I just wish the last movement would never end.
Beethoven considered it his most perfect single work and Schubert requested that his friends string quartet play it for him... remarking "After this, what is left for us to write?", Schubert died 5 days later. So, that's some pretty solid statements there.
It inspired me to play thr violin
@@rsr789 not only that, Schubert specifically requested to hear it on his deathbed!
The couple of minutes from 30:20 is my favourite sequence, and it finishes with a bang!
I love how the cellist stretches, at a couple of points, the tempo a bit. Altogether, a masterful interperetation.
heartfelt,romantic Beethoven. makes you see the possibilities of life,goodness,love.what we are made of.
One of Beethovens best works in my opinion.
One of his favourites too!
I love how everyone just open-face coughs as if it's a volume contest instead of coughing into their sleeves like a decent person
WTF is wrong with people??? The grey hairs cough, KNOW they're going to cough, and do nothing to minimize it.
Great playing. The end of the fugue reduced me to uncontrolled weeping. I don't mind admitting.
the Beautiful sad sweetness of Beethoven
Desgarradoramente trágico el primer movimiento de este, el más íntimo y profundo pronunciamiento musical, directo del alma de un Beethoven que echa una mira atrás a su vida, con resignación y la sabiduría que dan los años. De 40 minutos, esta obra tiene una duración de sinfonía y reta su propio género de cámara con sus 7 movimientos. En el centro hay un andante de 15 minutos, precioso pero impreciso, ¿qué nos quiere decir el maestro? Este cuarteto, fácilmente el más grandioso jamás compuesto, termina en una furiosa determinación, esta es la vida y no hay marcha atrás, abrázala tal cual.
Excepcional interpretación de este conjunto danés.
Oops. Big fingers, small keys ...
I agree -- the concentration needed in order to do justice to convey the degree of emotional expression and intellectual depth of this quartet
I was going to reply to your comment in Spanish, but I know this is the most magnificent piece of music ever written on earth. My brother, Willis E Overholt is now in heaven signing his signature of approval.
I wrote this down when I first heard it. On the old "Charlie Rose Show, on PBS (I wish it was still on...miss it.), interviewing Andre Previn. Andre said that he wanted this played at his funeral. This was on April 1, 2009. I don't know if he ever got his wish. Rest in Peace.
Band of Brother fans, 30:20 :)
Bless
Thank you sir. Currahee!
Cheers.
combat vet here - this moves me - thx for the tip sir...
I'm literally writing a research paper and needed a reference. You're the best! lmao
"The King of Harmony has sent the King of Song a friendly bidding to the crossing." -Karl Holz
I just listened to this same ensemble and quartet FROM LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER of WFMT in Chicago. They swallowed the elixir of Beethoven's and became the music
Not even the ignorant clapping of some public at the end of the Presto was enough to stain this magnificent rendition (the best recording I know) of op. 131
"Five movements, huh? A quartet can't have any more than that, right?"
Man, those chords at the end of that section, at 7:20ish are GREAT!!!!! perfect
Best recording on TH-cam
The best single movement chamber music piece?!
Amazing. I didn’t notice the coughing until I read the comments, lol. This Opus is miraculous!
Fantastic performance of the greatest quartet music
Curahee!
Never a dull moment throughout and so many unexpected surprises - wow the man's a genius.
Great performans !!!
Thanks McWhorter; great performance.
Most Danish-looking group of Danes I ever saw.
Sixth movement will forever be my favorite piece of music.
Fantastic Rendition.
Beautiful piece of music. Extremely well done.
absolutely amazing
ppl who cough in concert are living the meme life
Why I never attend live performances anymore.
Coughing, perfume and tobacco smells,talking,rustling of programs and candy wrappers.
Give me a solid studio performance in the comfort and silence of my living room.
28:31 epic page turn
Awesome interpretation...
30:20 Band of brothers...
Honestly just here for the part after 30:10, saw it on Band of Brother, then when it jumps to part 7 allegro, amazing, only play this and Chopin Noct Op. 9 No. 2 and always get ask what is playing because it sounds amazing, I listen to trap in Chicago so shows the different type of genre I listen to. BRAVO!!!!!!!!
what is music all about? this piece really makes you think.
there is purpose to human life
Yes. To enjoy it while it lasts.
Phenomenal performance
Beethoven was a musical genius.
I wouldn't say he was a genius. He was more of a hard worker. If you compare his trascripts with mozart's beethovens is scratched out everywhere with revisions trying to get it right where mozart just writes everything from start to finish in one go.
@@nvcool1 Of coarse Beethoven was a genius. He revisioned would music could express. Mozart of course was a genius as well, but not as personal and original as Beethoven.
@@nvcool1 No he was a genius. Look at an analysis of the counterpoint in this piece, no one, not even mozart comes close (Beethoven uses retrograde, inversion, augmentation, stretto etc mozart NEVER use this many techniques).
Plus Beethoven was the greatest improvisor in his time.
@@nielssvendsen2028 Just a personal opinion. I like to use the analogy of Einstein-Mozart vs Elon Musk-Beethoven. Born prodigy vs Game changer. Feel like the personality fits too.
@@nvcool1 Equating Elon Musk with Beethoven, seriously?
This is the last musical work schubert had wishes to hear right before his death..
Thanks, fantastic, fantastic
If you are distracted by the coughing you are not listening to the music. Some of us learnt these quartets from 78s - pretty well used ones, too - or AM radio. The artificial (these days digitally enforced) silence which is now thought to be required for music has been around for just about 40 years - if you ever get it. Do you really have a totally silent listening environment at home, even? If you were listening to the coughing on this recording with even half an ear, you'd have realised that there were a number of folk trying quite hard not to cough and not managing to. That was what you always got or get with the price of your concert ticket. No use complaining to the composer, or even sympathising with him. He'd probably have been overwhelmed with Freude to hear even a single cough.
9
Everyone in the audience has asthma apparently
Sounds more like full blown TB
Sounds like the same person...over & over & over...how selfish, disrespectful & irresponsible...a) to not stay home if youre sick & b) not to bring cough drops when you KNOW youre sick...& apparently not caring how disresprctful it is to the performers/whole musical experience...whew, Im done now...
Martha Barrett fully agree couldn't even focus on the quartet
I can only imagine how anoying it must be in the audience
Need Bugs Bunny to shoot them lol.
I love that this whole thing is a slow fugue. Beethoven himself was inspired by the greats, it seems.
cloudrunner11 who isn’t?
@@colinmurphy2214 Bach. This work stands along with Bach's Art of the Fugue as one of a handful of greatest compositions ever.
Beethoven called it his best work. I don’t believe that, but what do I know. Many artists like things they’ve done which aren’t always the public’s favourite.
Still. a great great representation of Beethoven!!!!!!!
please please if you got a cough just leave just leave we're here to hear the quartet not your COVID
Beautiful music and I'm distracted by the musicians' increasingly glorious mustaches the further right you look in the group.
What a wonderful performance by these quite unknown - to me - musicians.
Merci.
Revolution! Revolution! Revolution!
Op. 131 è uno dei capolavori non solo della musica, ma del creato! Ultimato nel maggio 1826, 10 mesi prima di morire ( 26.3.1827)
Brava!
Bravi ?? !! Please don’t take this as a criticism, just wondering if this is what you meant. I’m pretty sure congrats to several people collectively would have the i suffix but stand to be corrected!
Anyway, I agree!!
Diese Musik kommt aus einer andern Sphäre . Reine schönheit
Es ist der heilige Gral der klassischen Musik.
Magnifico in every language possible by the need of king, Jesus folks he’s coming to get us!!!!!!!
very good
Wow amazing
33:31 is the most beautiful moment 😊
An absolutely beautiful performance,
Of a brilliant, inspired composition,
Completely ruined by an ignorant audience.
나는 참 행복한 사람임을 또 오늘 확인 받는군요, 감사합니다.
Perfect
There have been scores of first-rate performances/recordings of the Beethoven quartets. That having been accomplished, why don't they play other works then? Well, if you're a mountain climber there's only one Everest. This is a most uncommonly fine offering of this music from beyond; can't imagine this any more lucid, expressive or comprehensive. Bravo!
30:20 - - from one of my favorite scenes in Band of Brothers
How dare they cough that much!
These bastards should be kicked out
I agree
The quartet are really distracting. I can hardly hear the coughs I came here for.
Coughing during the 6th movement should be illegal!
Wow🔥
loll the clapping after the presto
God damn, that was lit as fuck... as the kids would say.
I would be so pissed if I was playing this!
@@thomascoleman7396why, people are enjoying it!
Wagner - who wrote an interpretation of it as a day in Beethoven's life - in his late years (around the time of "Parsifal") used to coach string quartets in how to play this piece.
I always felt that prelude to tristan has many similarities with op. 131 first movement
7:26 II. Allegro molto vivace
A live music performance has its points....
But I despise sitting in a row in an auditorium ..everyone squeezed together facing forward.
Surrounded by people with bad scents, bad breath, clothes that rustle, programs that rustle, hard candy wrappers that rustle, talking..keeping time with their foot, tobacco stink and applauding between movements and too soon after the final note.
NO.
I sit in my big chair in the living room, lights low, best quality headphones and sound system... and I am lost in the music.
The world goes away.
Can't have that experience in a concert HALL.
Band of Brothers brought me here.
If anyone is here because of band of brothers, you need to start at 30:20
Band of Brothers movement is at 30:20
That one guy coughing the entire time.
cello at 22:48 HELL YEAH!!!!!
Goddamn, this music is so tragically beautiful. Stop listening to the 2 minute BS that's on the radio nowadays. Rock and roll used to be well orchestrated.
As good as music gets
Sweet.
Can you tell me why the number of the quartet is not included in the title of the video? The vast majority of people, even amateurs, know Beethoven's quartets by their number, and not by their opus number or whether they are in C or D....
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¿Se puede saber por qué no viene en el titulo del video el numero del cuarteto ...? La inmensa mayoría de la gente, incluso de los aficionados, conoce los cuartetos de Beethoven por su numero, y no por su numero de opus o si es en C, o en D....
мин 30-11 включена Бетховеном мелодия кол нидре - в память о его первой любви к Рахели
Loved the performance.
Just have to say, the first violinist looks like he could be the intelligent brother of Beavis.
Det har du inga bevis på!
Beavis Jakobsen
Yeah yeah his brother
Uuuuhhh…. Yeah. Hes like, really good at music or something. I bet he thinks pantera is awesome
TP for my bunghole?
I feel so sorry for these wonderful musicians to have their hard work of playing a sacred Beethoven piece for a huge audience of avid devoted listeners, only to have an extremely SELFISH cougher ruin so many portions of the entire length of the piece. I mean why couldn’t he have left the room after the first three congested, LOUDLY DISRUPTIVE outbursts?
agree the coughing should be mixed out of future releases of this performance
There is always one.
We have sound proof masks now. I believe they should be required for every performance
There's always a narcissist in the room, making sure you know it. Notice how they wait for the silences to hack a lugie?
It’s live music. Well timed coughing is a part of the experience.
30:19 The part which was used in the TV series Band of Brothers.
That's not Mozart.
That's Beethoven.
Could use some sneezing to accompany the coughing.
30:00 Band of Brothers escena
30:20 if you’re here from Band or Brothers
Yup
I'm not a fan of Beethoven but would like to be one, and better informed. I liked this, can anyone recommend other works of his I could listen to to get my foot in the door with him. I love baroque music, if that helps. TIA.
I would suggest to you his most popular piano sonatas: numbers 8, 14, 21, 23. If you like them, also try 29. These are “obvious” recommendations but popular for a reason.
I have quite a few:
Symphonies: 3rd (1st movement banger, but the other ones are also great), 5th (1st movement is the most famous piece in music history, and with good reason), 7th (famous slow 2nd movement), 9th/Ode to joy (every single movement is perfection)
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
Piano sonata No. 14 and No. 23
And this piece (obviously), especially the 7th movement.
@@BRNRDNCKIncorrect. No.14 is one of His weakest works, yet is the second most popular Beethoven piece. Popularity and quality are inversely proportional. Remember this for the rest of your life.
Truth Beethoven here, keeps it original! Very German Ensemble Style, not that American ensemble style as they cut things off in the last 3mins!
6:46 The low B sharp played by the cello...
7:26、32:39