Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 performed by the Jasper String Quartet (Live). Filmed live in The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in New York for WQXR's Beethoven String Quartet Marathon on November 18, 2012.
Alongside the seven movements of the 14th quartet, the "Mighty Razumovsky Fugue" as I like to call it, was the one piece of music that helped me love the concept of the string quartet. There was a time when string quartet's were something very alien to me. That was back when I only studied concert pianism and orchestral music. Now of course, the Beethoven quartet's are among my most well loved musical works. Bravo! Just bravo!
This quaret is the shortest of thre three "Rasumovski". It has features of its own: the pizzicati of the second movement, the fugato in the last one. An attractive quartet indeed.
I love these "Obeythoven" performances in general and this quartet in particular. I agree with another commenter, you can see how much the second violin player is enjoying the music. I also love how, like in many of the quartets, Beethoven really gives the viola a chance to shine. I love how he used that instrument's throaty, raspy sound to good effect. One of my favorites.
Gary Bisaga The "Obeythoven - Quartets" and the "Daniel Barenboim on Beethoven - Piano Sonatas" are my two favourite recitals only with Beethoven's pieces!
Jack Housman Interesting! I did not know that, but I could see that. Here's something interesting: www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/list.php?page=ausstellungsstuecke_museum_en&skip=1
Thank at Theodore Servin 3 anni fa Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 1. - Andante con moto - Allegro vivace: 0:00 2. - Andante con moto, quasi allegretto: 11:03 3. - Menuetto: Grazioso: 21:03 4. - Allegro molto: 26:15 Un quarto movimento TRAVOLGENTE ! Splendida esecuzione del Jasper String Q:
The three Razumovsky SQ are for me the best of Beethoven quarters. Particularly I love Nr 7th. Of course Harp and Serioso are also superb. No other composer gave to these kind of composition the grandeur Beethoven achieved. Well he had a good teacher: Haydn.
Clayelle Dalferes introduced me to this piece a long bunch of years ago -- back in the WNCN days -- and I'll be forever grateful. (I'm also grateful that, at long last, she's let photos of her appear on the web.) I doubt there's a more beautiful piece of music -- or woman.
Terrific, precision-laced, exuberant performance. TI think this is the most graspable, least abstract of the three masterful Rasumovskys. LvB had some really fine coffee while writing this one.
Steve Berlin but it wasn’t fun writing these masterpieces. So to imagine a quiet morning after a little shower finished Beethoven sipping his sixty bean coffee in a bathrobe with his legs crossed barely touching the paper with his quill. No I cannot imagine that..
Chamith Akalanka, however LvB did it, we’re the beneficiaries of his creative genius. Was it 60 or 57 beans each day? I’ve read he was fanatically precise about how many beans were ground per cup!
Escrito para el embajador ruso que tocaba el violin,obra contemporánea a la sinfonía num 4 y al concierto para violin y constitue una mezcla de lirismo y de desarrollo temático muy elaborado.Estos cuartetos llamados "Rasumonsky" casi eclipsan a los 6 cuartetos anteriores,siendo típicos de la música de cámara más dura de Beethoven.
This is so modern! As if some extraordinary contemporary composer had created this. It sounds like modern music wants, needs to sound, but virtually never succeeds.
This qurttet is clearly idpired bt The last of the quartets of Mozart de dicated to haydn: same tonality, same dissonant introduction to a consonant and rather simple first movement. The quartet that we hear here is absiolutely excellent.
wow... It is amazing... Beethoven didn t compose the cantity of Mozart, Bach, Schubert or Chopin, but Chopin, Schubert, Mozart and Bach (Vivaldi, etc), didn t compose the cantity of cality of Beethoven, no man... ¡NEVER! (And some of them being deaf, hahahahaha)
