Schubert: Octet in F groot, D 803 - Janine Jansen & Friends - IKFU 2015 - Live Concert HD 

absolutely!

Wow, great and accurate comment. Have you ever seen her personally? What wouldn't I give to talk to her... Such a perfect angelic woman.

I love Janine Jensen and her marvelous artistry. She plays with heart and passion. It is a pleasure to watch and listen to her interpretations. She is undoubtedly a great violinist. Also a very lovely beautiful woman. Still, saying that Janine is the greatest violinist of our time is a bold statement. Is she greater than Maxim Vengerov, Perlman, Joshua Bell, Augustin Hadelich, Hillary Hahn, Julia Fischer, Ann Sophie Mutter? I am a violinist myself, though not a professional one. I would hesitate to say Janine is the very best, much as I love her playing.

Agreed! They are gigantic. They make the players look miniature. :)

Glad to see a response from Thailand but if you want to see something lovely go to the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok almost any early evening to see and to hear some beautiful string music played

Yes, tenderness. That's the word.

Ahmed Karadakhy The tenderness of Schubert's music is an arrow straight to the heart.

And yet this is short when compared to a number of musical compositions. Some are over four times the length. But yes; I agree with you. The music stops all too soon. What would Schubert have achieved if he had lived to be as old as Papa Haydn?

@@RWBHere hopefully he would have made some concertos and two more movements to his 8th symphony

Better, this is one of those composers that you wish would never die

@@Rodrigo11100 schubert was kurt Cobain before kurt Cobain was kurt cobain

As Robert Schumann wrote, heavenly length.

Ja vol!

Neben Beethoven seinem Septett 😊

Bert Carter okbokknonk o

Yes sir

+Ashvajit Dharmachari Yes it is a wonderful little masterpiece! I have been listening to it for 20 years and never tire of it.

This is my fifth time, and there will be many more.

The rising arpeggio ending with repeated notes occurs in many guises throughout the octet, and its meaning is revealed in the nightmare in the recap in the finale. It is fear. And then what happens? It is transmuted into pure joy in the coda. I so resonate with your description: "This will be the most beautiful and exciting and moving journey of your life."

@@gervaisfrykman266 yes indeed. The (brief) nightmare near the end is something that the Octet shares with Schubert’s String Quintet. What a complex man he seems to have been. For me, the passage first heard at 18’ 45” here is the sound of Gaia breathing. It reminds me of Berg’s description of the first movement of Mahler 9: “the expression of a tremendous love for this world, a longing to live in peace and to savour Nature to its depths before the arrival of Death”.

@@antwerpsmerle1404 Thanks for that insight concerning Gaia. You shared experience. He knew all about sadness and fracturing. There is a breakdown in the slow movement here, and another in the slow movement of the great C major symphony. But nobody takes on the sadness with greater courage. I think particularly of the E flat piano trio, finale, when the very sad slow movement theme is recapitulated in e flat minor, then turns to major, and the Agnus Dei of the E flat mass just before the second Dona nobis Pacem, where he breaks out of the solemn round that he has created, with a major chord. There is also the outburst in the slow movement of the A major sonata D959, but the finale is warm, glowing, assured, beautiful.

@@gervaisfrykman266 thanks for that. I don’t know Schubert’s Masses but will seek them out. The breakdown in D959 is - for me - almost too intense to listen to. What anguish must a human being have had to endure to write music like that? Actually, I hope that Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s forthcoming biography will shed new light on Schubert’s personality.

Not sure about the others, but the clarinetist is Andreas Ottensamer from the Berlin Philharmonic.

the friends are actually mentioned in the caption under the clip. If you open that it states the names.

the hornist: Radek Barborak

Que pena que este grande compositor morreu com apenas 31 anos de idade

Si, gloria a Schubert y mil gracias por sus geniales creaciones.

Muy lamentable y triste la forma en que murió.

Musicians are trained to hear music in their heads. A genius like Schubert knew exactly how it would sound without hearing it played in real life. He also had a piano.