I fell in love immediately with this music about 60 years ago, when I first played the second violin part in a performance in my youth. Since those days I played it many times, both the first violin part and the second violin part. I think I came to understand this music the more I played it, and the more I play it the more I love this extraordinary music. This quintet is so very different from Schubert’s other quintet, his youthful masterpiece, the Trout piano quintet. The Trout is a lovely marvelous happy piece. But his string quintet in C, written under very different circumstances is much deeper. If the Trout is all happy carefree laughter, this one moves us to tears. Schubert wrote this quintet just a short time before he died of syphilis at age 31. He undoubtedly knew he was dying, and poured his soul into this marvelous music. Though all movements in this quintet are masterfully written, what moves me the most, like many musicians is the second movement. I am convinced that in this movement Schubert described his own death that happened just a short time after he wrote this extraordinary piece of music. The second movement is written in roughly A B A form. It starts with a marvelous melody in the lower strings on which the first violin adds caressing dotted rhythms. When the melody is repeated with pizzicatos from the first violin and the second cello, it sounds like Schubert lies on his death bed, with those who loved him surrounding him praying for his survival. Part B starts with an obstinato accompaniment on top of which the first violin adds a screaming searing melody - might it be Schubert pleading with God, screaming at God, why are you killing me at age 31? The screams become pleas for his life. But God does not hear his pleas. Part B ends in silence. Schubert has died. The rest of the movement is those who loved him mourning the dead Schubert. Part A returns with sobbing on the first violin, and marvelous upward runs on the second cello, like a priest trying to console the grieving. The praying beautiful melody in the lower strings returns. With the dotted caresses on the first violin, which at times become like sharp stabbing wounds into the heart. Caressing and sobbing returns to the first violin. The dark mood part B returns but only for a moment. It is resolved into serenity, acceptance, sorrow and resignation.
Спасибо за Ваш комментарий.Как жаль ,что он так рано перешел в другой мир.Значит,был готов.Музыка божественная. Послушаю вторую часть ,внимательно прочитав Ваш комментарий.
No sabía de la existencia de este excelente cuarteto ni conocía a Mr. Joel Krosnick. Esta versión está a la altura de aquellas entregadas por cuartetos de gran prosapia, como el Amadeus, entre otros.
Just a quick one: you know how you and I bot think of this as the sine qua non of all possible expressions of what life is (outside of the Bible)? Well, here's a thought - what about for our average truck driver or brick-layer who not only has never heard this piece before, but has also not ever listened to classical music? For him such a mirror and sublime reflection of life would be, say Oasis' track' Wonder wall'. My Point? Really quite simple - thinking (like I myself do in my comment below) of this as the sine qua of all realities (outside of Jesus' teachings and life as recorded in the Bible) - is really nonsense. Why not Wonder wall? Because we are proud. And God is against the proud (James 4:6).
This piece is surely the greatest piece of classical music. No greater piece exists. It is even better than the greatest piece ever written for piano - the d960 sonata.
It's totally insane that anyone can't hear this & yet they can accept the absolute one dimensional (Or lack of Musical Tonality) that comprises the Simplistic sound of Popular "Music".....
I COULDN'T STAND IT! After Krosnick's wonderful introduction, the sound was also wonderful, but the cameraman decided that it was all abut him. There is a lot going on in a quintet, and the advantage of a video is that one gets to see the performers and the interplay and simply which instruments are playing, when. But this camera man decided that he would give us a (to him) nice closeup of this instrument then that - meanwhile there is a lot more going on. I found it immensely frustrating and left this, as wonderful as it was, for one with Janine Jansen's group, where I could watch the whole quintet.
Quelle interprétation habitée ! Tous les musiciens sont excellents. Je l'ai regardée déjà trois fois. Valerie Li m'emporte dans son jeu. Merci infiniment…
Regarding what we would have had he lived even 20 more years, people who believe in G-d might say that this was as much as we deserved, or, was destined to be revealed to us here on earth. 30 is a bit young, i must admit. Very unusual talent for under age 30. He was sent down for his mission and then went back home.😓😢
Franz Schubert's music is an angel's song. All his musical creations are angels sent from above. All of them : his chamber orchestra compositions, his symphonies, his Lieder. May Franz be now accompanied by the Muses in the Olympian Elysian Fields. I am in paradise listening to his works.
A bit rough after listening to the exquisite performance of this masterpiece by Janine Jansen and friends at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h1T20eu3mMQ.html
I heard this wonderful piece of music played recently at one of those new Sunday Morning 'coffee concerts' that are now very popular among classical music lovers. Both performances with performed brilliantly
I would almost take a less nuanced performance if it meant the performers didn't do the exaggerated postures and facial expressions...this sounds great, but I can't watch it...
These musicians were giving us the best of themselves and should not be mocked because of how they look while performing.The music was composed to be listened to and it takes an unbelievably high level of skill to produce the beauty that Schubert intended. These musicians focused on that for your benefit. Be grateful.
