VERY DIFFICULT TO PLAY FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. THIS IS TCHAIKOVSKY AT HIS INTELLECTUAL BEST. SOME VERY NOSTALGIC FOLK MELODIES CLEVERLY CONTAINED WITHIN.
@@LuneLieber Parece que hay por lo menos un libro que relata la historia del cuarteto y , despues de publicado, alguno de ellos dijo que el libro "es un montón de verdades a medias" Creo que el Amadeus se alojaban en distintos hoteles y se juntaban solamente para ensayos y conciertos. Es que se convierten en una empresa, una marca, una máquina de hacer dinero (por lo menos lo hace con algo lindo) y no pueden parar.
The very beginning of the quartet sounds like Bartok with the first three notes each a whole step apart. That sonority must have shocked his audience in the 1870s.
Wow this is intense! I feel like crying out "Mercy! I can only be so stimulated!" Also, interestingly enough, at 11:58 you can hear something that sounds like "Joy to the World". :)
Or "Lift up your heads" from "Messiah." There are a number of possible 4-note combinations with similar rhythm, but not an astronomical number. Speaking of rhythms, listen to the 2nd movement, then go the score at imslp.org and see how Tchaikovsky writes it. He really loved irregular rhythms. And he could really bring them off.
