Rarely will you hear music of this caliber played with such sensitivity and dynamic variation.Each musician knows how to clearly delineate their parts, and when to fuse together with exequsite tone.BRAVO.
Watching this in 2020 during the pandemic. Despite all the stupidity in this world, there's music and musicians as such. It really gives a warm light. So just don't lose hope on humanity.
Men, I hope that what you do here does not seem ordinary to you. Your music is richly beautiful-you play with so much spirit and emotion! The music makes my heart swell and my soul sing! Mere technical know-how cannot do that to people. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us. Please share more.
Ahh. My soul needed this. I am moved beyond a thoughtful comment but will say that we could use a lot more of what these beautiful musicians are offering us with this concert and their work in general. It is incredibly healing.
When I learned the 2nd Wedding tune from Fanø, the fiddler told me that the shapes in the music were meant to mimic the waves, and to illustrate how they give and take, how life gives and takes, full of ups and downs.
I have seen this concert at least ten times. Amazing mix of the traditional and modern harmony. Does anybody have some recomendations (scandinavian music) that is similar and good as this? Greetings from Hercegovina!
This is electrifying stuff: a blending/alternating of modern and traditional styles that creates a rare tapestry of sound. Their consummate artistry supports both their sensitivity to the moods of the music (and to each other) as well as the exuberant energy of the dance tunes.
Please, PLEASE come back to Santa Fe! Our Santa Fe Pro Musica audience went a bit wild over you and everyone is still talking about that Shostakovich #7. We're sorry about the altitude, but you handled it splendidly! Carlota, Pro Musica Emerita Board Member.
I would like to send my kindest regards to the 73 members of the tone deaf society who have provided thumbs down responses (as of 31/5/19) it must so hard to deal with being unable to appreciate such a superb quartet because of your aural impairments.
Wow wow, what a pure delight. So glad to have discovered you this evening. Better late(r) than never! Thank you, Danish String Quartet. I hope you are still making beautiful music. Going to go to Google and find out.
I know this is old, but this performance stuck in my mind. My favorite is the final piece, the third part of the bridal trilogy. When I first heard this, I thought the long notes and silences at the beginning were painfully awkward to listen to. But I have come to come to think of them this way: they are meant to slow us down, to readjust us to hear what follows. They expand the scope of the piece from a few minutes at a wedding to the entirety of a marriage lived across the many years of two lives. Is there a traditional wedding dance where one person does the steps, then is joined by their partner to repeat them together? That is what I picture here, and when the two violins play in unison it always undoes me. It seems rare to me to find such a profound expression of married life.
I'm a fan of British and American folk music, and could definitely get into this. I hear a lot of similarities between this and Irish traditional/folk music. Lovely stuff :)
@@Discrimination_is_not_a_right I had the pleasure to be taught by the mother of the second violin (Frederik Øland): Anne Øland. She had incredible hearing, also his father was a splendid viola player. He might have gotten from there. Really top family!
Rarely will you hear music of this caliber played with such sensitivity and dynamic variation.Each musician knows how to clearly delineate their parts with exequsite tone.
This was wonderful and I loved being introduced to this group, but the people talking in the background around the 14:00 mark were incredibly rude. Live performances can never be replicated and those attending them should respect the artists who are performing.
So wonderful that a sublimely talented string quartet like these four gorgious gentlemen choose to keep old folk songs and dances alive. It is an important heritage we should not forget! Keep up the good spirit!
Smiles and tears! It’s my first time watching a video of the Danish String Quartet and they don’t disappoint. Whenever I hear them on the radio, I have to find out who this group is, and I’m not surprised when it’s them. Such fun music! Thank you!
SO looking forward to hearing them play next year at The Friends of Chamber Music concert at the University of Denver's Newman Center for the Performing Arts!
Strange how some people think: because they are from Denmark they have to play Danish music and that they sound celtic. They can play whatever they like. If they were Brit would they only be expected to play Brit music same goes for the U.S.. Good Stuff
Scandinavian folk music is so magical and rad , especially the hardanger fiddle music , maybe they will bring valkyrien allstars next time or Utla , lovely music
If you enjoyed this I suggest checking out Kaivama, they play a mix of traditional and modern (written by themselves) Finnish music on various interesting instruments. I heard about them when I saw their concert at a tiny cafe, and it was amazing! Check them out!
We heard them in concert yesterday afternoon at the Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine (Minsky Hall). Fantastic! Played these selections.........................
