Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51 No. 2 (1873)
Analysis below ↓
MVT I
EXPOSITION
0:00 - Theme 1, A minor
0:33 - Transition
1:13 - Theme 2, C major
2:45 - Closing section
3:25 - Repetition of the exposition
DEVELOPMENT
6:25 - T1 in first violin imitated by the cello and viola shortly after
6:58 - Fragments from T1
7:38 - Climax
8:05 - Retransition
RECAPITULATION
8:15 - T1, A minor
8:46 - Transition
9:06 - T2, A major
10:37 - Closing material
10:46 - CODA
MVT II
12:18 - A section, A major
15:17 - B section, F-sharp minor
17:33 - A’ section, starting in F major then going back to A major
20:03 - Coda
MVT III
21:09 - Minuet, A minor
22:43 - Trio, A major
24:34 - Minuet reprise, A minor
MVT IV (sonata-rondo form)
EXPOSITION
25:55 - Theme 1, A minor
26:33 - Transition
26:42 - Theme 2, C major
27:12 - Closing material
27:44 - Transition
DEVELOPMENT
28:02 - T1, A minor
28:31 - T2, F major
29:04 - Climax
29:17 - Retransition
RECAPITULATION
29:29 - T1, A minor
30:10 - T2, A major
30:39 - Closing material
CODA
31:12 - Poco tranquillo, A major
32:10 - Piú vivace, A minor
Performed by the Emerson Quartet.
6 июн 2024