A Guided Tour of Arnold Schoenberg's 2nd String Quartet in F♯ minor, Opus 10 (1908) 

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This might be the best thing Schoenberg ever wrote. One of the most powerful portraits of misery I've ever come across in music. I love this recording so much. I have the 2-disc set of all four quartets by the Arditti Quartet, and I've never heard any one else nail the 2nd this well.

this is a beautiful style of video the way you give the score with accompanying guidance interspersed with spoken analysis. please continue this necessary work.

So beautiful here and what a masterpiece here! I think the handling of materials here is more mature here than in no.1 Quartet as there’s not even an abrupt passage for me! Every passage is reasonable and effective here. Rather than a traditional emphasis on the first movement as in no.1, here the emphasis is put in mov.4 as the trend after Beethoven and it’s very successful here. An Ariosto in mov.1 (function as in the first mov. 1 of Beethoven’s op.131?), Dance of Fury in mov.2 with motive rhythmic motive from no 1 quartet quoted, also in D minor, Lament in the 3rd mov and a chase of transcendence not through the usual tonal path but with post tonal harmony from another planet an finally the key of transcendence, F sharp major is achieved beautifully though with uncertainty. There’s no need of key signature here: 20th century is not a century of beauty and transcendence but materialism and nihilism. Thanks for your video as always! I would never enjoy beauty of this masterpiece without your video! Henry

Hi David - if the 4th movement is actually to be parsed in sonata form, is the exposition inside what you here call the "prologue"? Or does the sonata form only start when the vocals begin.