Recorded live at DSQ Festival 2018 "The Copenhagen Cycle", Oct 22-27 Cameras: Agata Netyks, Marta Zych, Caroline Bittencourt, Wojciech Zych, and Cezary Zych Edits: Wojciech Zych
In my near 7th decade of listening to music, I am compelled to declare this performance, this interpretation to be the best I have ever encountered of this highly emotive and personal movement of the A minor quartet. Your articulations by each player, the sensitive accents and timing pull me beck to this performance over and over. Nine better! Thank you for your musicianship and for your contribution to the beauty and depth of Beethoven.
They were wonderful. But have you ever heard Brentano Quartet! They have the most perfect sound in every character they perceive(the most incredible bow arms for stylization! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HlYyvMq0n-0.html:36
I can’t help but to cry every time I listen to this piece. It has carried me though loved ones sicknesses and deaths. I want this played at my memorial.
"Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine, through every grief and pine runs a joy with silken twine". Augeries of innocence, William Blake.
@@bobmccarthy5022 I believe that both Blake and Beethoven in their greatest works introduce a third element , a force , like joy and woe are woven fine , which unifies disparate elements within a mind that thinks in terms of opposites. We very rarely , if ever see the third neuterlizing force. That which is not "yes" or "no." But that which is "yes" AND "no." When this occurs one's consciousness is heightened to unknown levels. Please see a poem by Mina Loy , beginning with the lines , "there is no life or death , only activity. Here all the opposites become unified
It doesn't matter how many times I listen to this it always transports me into a higher place. This music was composed, and is being played...not to replace the world, but to make the world bearable and even transcendent.
This movement is like a prayer(A) followed by the strengthening response of God(B) --- (A.B.A2.B.A3) And when the theme last appears(A3) we are healed.
You are right. Warner Music has claimed the rights for this performance and the algoritm thinks it’s a recording by Artemis string quartet (we are flattered!) But we will try to sort this out quickly!
14:49 and beyond is as close as I'll ever get to heaven on this earth. This entire piece and this interpretation is as transcendent as anything in this world.
I return to this movement after many years, in a moment of gratitude to God as I realized how He brought me through some SITUATIONS ... as relief and new strength came into me, I remembered this piece, and this recording is the one that best matched with my memory ... thank you so much for this sensitive and beautifully paced interpretation!
To see the world in a grain of sand. Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand: Eternity in an hour. W.Blake. In this Molto Adagio time stops and everything is ONE eternally.
Mit diesem Quartett ist Beethoven etwas ganz Besonderes gelungen, das wohl auch in seinem gesamtem Werk einzig ist. Unsere Bewunderung könnte nicht größer sein…Ein Dank an die Musiker für ihre wundervolle Interpretation.
This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful performances of this piece that I've ever heard. It can't be easy to express such passion and subtlety simultaneously. I'm certain Beethoven would be smiling if he could see and hear this. Thank you for sharing it with those of us who weren't there to see it done live.
Maybe someone can explain how these guys get such *resonance*! No one sounds like them; you can hear the wood, it's like the music is alive and breathing. The last notes in their Cavatina make all the hair on my neck stand up.
Mindblowing! The most incredible sustained sound. Masterful bow work, subtle feints of phrase. The most peaceful breathing timing. Every consonance shimmers like crystal and you milk every dissonance. My dad is in hospice - I thought of this piece, and was so grateful to find that you have posted such an exquisite rendition.
The strangest interpretation I have heard and in my opinion a complete misunderstanding of the piece. I will remain silent about this baroque raid of palace art. The point is an explosion of bitterness interspersed with nostalgia, not a mixture of a funeral march and a rural idyll.
I dunno. I am usually not a fan of non vibrato, but these guys are good. And about "bitterness", this music will always bring out one's own personal feelings. Bitterness is an unwelcome guest at my table and I do not look for it in this music. I would suggest that you take the words "Holy Song of Thanksgiving" and give credence to Beethoven's title.
Gentlemen....just want you to know that this performance gave me tremendous strength and hope. Loved it beyond measure..... and reaching back into the past, the Stamitz viola concerto with the Centipede costume still makes me laugh, whenever it comes to mind. Thanks for sharing this sublime performance, and doing all that you do.
Such fantastic playing!! You guys are a major inspiration, the bowing is so in sync it is like the bellows of an organ - your folk album is on constant rotation when I work in Excel at my desk job. Keep it up the great playing! -Luke from Minnesota
Like so many people, I have always loved this music. Your version, however, surpasses anything I have ever heard. Thank you so much for this beautiful and moving rendition.
It is such great music, this piece of music, I listen to it a thousand times and every time it moves me, that is what music, Beethoven does and so very good played bij Danish String Quartet, I heard you playing in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam a couple of years ago, that was an unforgettable concert. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, greetings from the Netherlands
I am a long time fan of the DQ, but just discovered this. How nice. Beautifully played, and not an obvious choice for RU-vid. Great camerawork too. Nice to watch during the quarantine.
I have never enough to hear this divine music. Always! but especially after suffering. You play it so beautifully. Thank you so much dear danish quartet.
... this is the BEST INTERPRETATION of this PIECE , as I PERCEIVE it ... INTENSITY with EQUILIBRIUM . with SECURITY , without TREMBLING , without EXITATION . and COORDINATION AMONG THEM . chapeau .
So beautiful, sustained sound. Can you kindly take out the sponsor's message in the middle of the performance as it interrupts the musical thought, perhaps put it at the beginning? Thank you for sharing this.
I only came across this movie a few days ago and from the moment I heard this string quartet, I was reduced to tears and spent the movie a sobbing mess every time I heard music come on!
I came to this piece through Aldous Huxley's Point Counterpoint. My favourite writer led me to my favourite piece of music. Tears streaming as i listen and type. Thank you, thank you, to all.
This quartet sat next to us in a United Airlines flight from Dulles to Newark with their instruments. One had his cello in the seat next to him. When our plane was delayed, we couldn't talk them into doing a performance fo r us right there in the airport. Would love to see them in person.
Among all your group's wonderful qualities, you have an unerring instinct for the appropriate tempo, very critical in this work. It would be very revealing to know how you decide on that. Is it obvious to all right from the beginning, or is it determined only after careful deliberation with every member having a say? Your performance of op. 132 was Carl Baum's favorite version. The two of us tried, but failed, to find another that was competitive. They all came up short in one fashion or another. I'm so looking forward to seeing you perform live again.
