Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 1

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- Composer: Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 -- 26 September 1945)
- Performers: Hungarian String Quartet
- Year of recording: 1961
String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Sz. 40, BB 52 (Op. 7), written in 1908.
00:00 - I. Lento
10:48 - II. Allegretto {Poco a poco accelerando all'allegretto} - Introduzione
20:41 - III. Allegro vivace
In a letter to violinist Stefi Geyer, Bartók described the opening movement of this quartet as his "funeral dirge." The quartet's first four notes -- a descending major sixth and a minor sixth interval played imitatively by the first and second violins -- are nearly identical to the opening motif of the second, giocoso, movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908), Bartók's musical portrait of Geyer, with whom he was unrequitedly in love. Bartók dealt with the rejection of his love in a series of autobiographical works, of which this quartet is the culmination. Kodály called this quartet a "return to life," and its three accelerating movements (Lento, Allegretto, and Allegro vivace) plainly trace a course from the Liebestod-like anguish of the convoluted first movement to the heady, forceful finale.
- The Lento is marked by a hyper-chromatic Romantic mood characteristic of many works written around the turn of the century. Sadness and despair are the prevailing sentiments in this work, with wistful nostalgia expressed in passing episodes of Impressionistic delicacy that are quickly subsumed by the darker mood. After the first theme is explored, (the counterpoint is reminiscent of Beethoven's late string quartets), a funereal element is introduced with forceful, bell-like fifths on the cello, over which sounds a sobbing second theme, on viola and second violin harmonized in thirds, while the first violin muses detachedly in the upper register. The mood and style are reminiscent of the first violin concerto's opening movement. A hesitant bridge passage accelerates gradually to...
- the next movement, which presents a delicate and witty theme, a stepwise motif that is subjected to a series of explorations in various settings suggestive of variation technique. The mood is ambiguous, despite light-hearted interplay among the instruments; when a distinct mood finally manifests itself toward the end of the movement, it is one of anger, driven by an insistent pulsing ostinato on a single note that begins as an ominous pizzicato on the cello and grows to fist-shaking open fifths arco. The mood is not resolved by movement's end. Another bridge passage leads to...
- the finale, an accelerating Allegro vivace that is the longest of the three movements. In the first movement, there was only a brief suggestion of Hungarian folk music in the cello's soulful melody during the Impressionistic episode; here the character of folk music is more pronounced. Its use here, though not as organic as in later works, nevertheless seems central to the young composer's "return to life" after a period of despair. The main theme, which has a "scolding" quality (and is intervallically related to the descending sixths of the first movement), is developed through a series of episodes, one of which parodies European café music, after which it is treated, fugato-style, in a grotesque, scherzando section. The coda is fast and propulsive, the final, emphatic chords of open fifths barely able to block its momentum.

Пікірлер: 115
@Berliozboy
@Berliozboy Жыл бұрын
Bartok's contrapuntal writing never ceases to blow me away. A master at his craft.
@stueystuey1962
@stueystuey1962 3 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. Listening to Bartoks string quartets for 30 years. They still sound fresh and reward the listener with new perspectives and insights upon numerous repeated listenings.
@hectorbarrionuevo6034
@hectorbarrionuevo6034 4 жыл бұрын
Love Bartok's wonderful, complex, post-tonal, dissonant language !!!! Tension remains present even in the slower sections; textures vary greatly and include an awesome, contrapuntal, fugue-like procedure.
@pianoles6224
@pianoles6224 6 жыл бұрын
Bartok, thanks for your beautifull music from another dimension
@MrGabry114
@MrGabry114 4 жыл бұрын
The first is the sexiest string quartet movement i can think of
@pawn62
@pawn62 6 жыл бұрын
Oct. 2017: Who knew I would live so long, or care! But my Uncle David played for many years in the Houston Symphony. I lived in Houston in 1965 (hated it). But when Dave gave me a gift certificate at Foley's Dept. Store, what I purchased was a Columbia Box of the Six Quartets. Haven't listened to these discs for quite a while! It comes back. It IS a bit of heaven!
@PaulHummerman
@PaulHummerman 5 жыл бұрын
For me too 60 years has sped by and I'm again listening to Bartok. It sounds even more modern today than then, and will probably keep getting younger, unlike us.
@PaulHummerman
@PaulHummerman 4 жыл бұрын
By the way, I hated Houston too, used to live in Galveston which was much nicer though no paradise.
@vicb4901
@vicb4901 Жыл бұрын
Bartok is always fresh and surprising without resorting to any tonal sweet stuff. Music was both a language and a literary plot for him. I hated Houston, too, in the early 90's. I loved Austin and San An-tone (as they pronounced it).
@mason11198
@mason11198 5 жыл бұрын
Someone said my work sounds like Bartok's early works, and after hearing this I am very flattered
@stueystuey1962
@stueystuey1962 5 жыл бұрын
you go guy.
@sleort42
@sleort42 3 жыл бұрын
Kedves magyar zene - nagyon szeretem Bartok Bélát. Üdvözlet Dániából
@RaymondDoerr
@RaymondDoerr 2 жыл бұрын
Play music like you are singing it, Play music like you are dancing. Play like you are traveling around the world and play like you are telling a story.
@sylvainpenard9354
@sylvainpenard9354 2 жыл бұрын
00:06 : Partie A motif de Stefi (deux premières du violon 1 suivies des deux premières notes du violon 2 fa lab do mi) 01:08 : Motif de Stefi 03:55 : Motif de Stefi 04:34 : Motif de Stefi 05:19 : Partie B 06:42 : Passage "ravélien" 07:57 : Partie A 10:48 : Deuxième mouvement - Forme sonate 11:39 : Exposition - Premier groupe thématique 12:38 : Exposition - Deuxième groupe thématique 13:14 : Passage en gamme par ton 13:41 : Développement 16:58 : Réexposition 17:42 : Deuxième groupe thématique (uniquement le passage en gamme par ton) 18:24 : Coda 19:05 : Introduzione 20:43 : Troisième mouvement - Forme sonate - Exposition - Premier groupe thématique 21:32 : en diminution, présenté de manière contrapuntique 22:01 : Exposition - Second groupe thématique 22:45 : Exposition - Second groupe thématique - Adagio, thème populaire 24:13 : Développement (basé sur le premier thème) 24:33 : à l'unisson 24:47 : déformé 25:08 : passage fugué 27:07 : Réexposition - Premier groupe thématique 28:04 : Réexposition - Second groupe thématique 28:48 : Réexposition - Second groupe thématique - Adagio thème populaire 30:19 : Coda
@mike8015
@mike8015 7 жыл бұрын
olla-vogala for president
@karespratt5131
@karespratt5131 8 ай бұрын
No one does tension and suspense in music quite like Bartok. The more I listen to his music the more impressed I am.
@pietro5266
@pietro5266 5 жыл бұрын
As much as I love Schoenberg's early work, I never really appreciated his 12-tone approach; it always sounded too artificial. Bartok manages to achieve near-atonality without the forced mechanism.
@stueystuey1962
@stueystuey1962 5 жыл бұрын
I must be blessed to really really like both fellas. I had forgotten how delicate and spiritual this composition is.
@who1srecords
@who1srecords 2 жыл бұрын
you should check out webern. i think his stuff is a lot less artificial. nice thing is that the music will never change... but you might haha!
@morrykernerman758
@morrykernerman758 Жыл бұрын
cats Feed dogs And ggg gg gggggg gggggg ffggggggf ggggggffff FF FF ffggg FF FF FF FF Ftt
@charlottewhyte9804
@charlottewhyte9804 9 ай бұрын
agree ,he does indeed.
@hoegis
@hoegis 4 жыл бұрын
I sort of hear war(s) coming closer. Tense, anxious, stressful impression. But exquisite.
@telemachus53
@telemachus53 3 жыл бұрын
What sublime music, I got carried away in to another dimension, carrying on where Beethoven left off in op. 131, when all of a sudden I heard: "The new Hyundai is finally for sale! Supplies limited - hurry to your nearst dealer and try it!..." Wonderful!. If you're going to put ads on your music you must have a really low regard for Bartok. Or at least time them appropriately.
@zenner41
@zenner41 3 жыл бұрын
There's only one remedy. Pony up for the premium subscription. Sorry.
@meredithbaron7727
@meredithbaron7727 3 жыл бұрын
Skip to the end of the video first and then replay. The adds should disappear.
@jamesmayhew2538
@jamesmayhew2538 2 жыл бұрын
@@zenner41 Just get Adblock
@SuonoReale
@SuonoReale 2 жыл бұрын
I'm kinda weird in that regard in that I'm amused by the juxtaposition of the serious with the superficial and commercial. I'm considering writing a chamber work with abrupt "ads" interspersed to disrupt the most tender and serious moments. Messing with the listeners expectations, setting them up for disappointment and unresolved tension.
@guitargod6997
@guitargod6997 2 ай бұрын
This is how KZfaq is monetizing the experience. More and more commercials and interruptions. Makin' money, honey!
@outaspaceman
@outaspaceman 2 жыл бұрын
Back in my “yoof”, in the local libraries audio section, I decided I should expand my cultural horizons… I took out a vinyl copy of Bartok’s string quartets.. On listening I was astonished.. I still am..
@caz3474
@caz3474 2 жыл бұрын
Vinyl would have sounded awesome
@9340Steve
@9340Steve 11 ай бұрын
Once again, thanks for posting and thanks especially for the notes. Besides finding the content of your notes so enlightening, I also think they are a model of clarity in style.
@musicfirst5020
@musicfirst5020 Жыл бұрын
I love Nr. 1. One of my favorite quartets. Love that mysterious spooky opening. The other quartets I'm ambivalent about overall.
@charlottewhyte9804
@charlottewhyte9804 9 ай бұрын
very special toanlity.
@camilorojas1744
@camilorojas1744 6 жыл бұрын
I love the increasing dramatics of Cello solo at about 19:25
@Claudiese
@Claudiese 5 жыл бұрын
Exquisite part....
@jeffgrigsbyjones
@jeffgrigsbyjones 10 күн бұрын
What a time 1909 was. Schoenberg's Op. 11 for piano was exploding the post-Brahmsian aesthetic and paving the way for the Second Viennese School. Richard Strauss' Elektra was pushing up to the brink of modernist expression. And Bartok was writing string quartets as if he was a visitor from 2509.
@harryandruschak2843
@harryandruschak2843 6 жыл бұрын
"Like" on 7 December 2017. Going through all six quartets today, as I am laid up in bed with a really nasty cold.
@dap4699
@dap4699 4 жыл бұрын
How relatable. Not in bed myself though.
@goldenthunder1166
@goldenthunder1166 Жыл бұрын
Good god; those opening bars just make you want to give up on life...
@slateflash
@slateflash 3 жыл бұрын
7:38 that moment is perfect
@korneliusracz6001
@korneliusracz6001 2 жыл бұрын
His "Concerto for Orchestra" is full of references to this work, especially the last movement.
@thefxbip315
@thefxbip315 6 жыл бұрын
Incredible!
@WarpZone10
@WarpZone10 7 жыл бұрын
28:47 holy moly
@leonardoivanreyescarranza3146
@leonardoivanreyescarranza3146 7 жыл бұрын
gracias
@papabillydeth4723
@papabillydeth4723 6 жыл бұрын
Listen to “The Battle of Chamdo” by Gorguts and other tracks by them after and watch your musical appreciation skyrocket
@stlrfn437
@stlrfn437 6 жыл бұрын
Very suspenseful
@Roititouan
@Roititouan Жыл бұрын
4:35 theses two chords are the more powerful ones I have ever heard
@charlottewhyte9804
@charlottewhyte9804 7 жыл бұрын
beautiful stuff
@SomeGuy-sd1fv
@SomeGuy-sd1fv 7 жыл бұрын
agreed.
@jaydavid5343
@jaydavid5343 2 ай бұрын
I'm in love with no. 1, (and all the others!)... I know my harmony/theory... Somehow he keeps it tonal and human as opposed to the "2nd Viennese School" guys- (although IMO Berg had something gorgeous going on in that realm too!). But anyway, I wish I could steal Bartok's stuff/style! I haven't been able to yet. It just doesn't seem to line up (harmonically) as vertically as the beautiful music that came before it. Yet it still does.. (?) Hopefully I'll figure it out before I die :) Til then I'll just listen and enjoy.
@johnstag1391
@johnstag1391 Жыл бұрын
Exquisite
@nicholasfox966
@nicholasfox966 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your description. One correction--the opening movement's imitative cell is not two consecutive minor sixths, but a major sixth followed by a minor sixth.
@olla-vogala4090
@olla-vogala4090 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I've edited the description!
@charlottewhyte9804
@charlottewhyte9804 7 жыл бұрын
excellent point yea
@diegeigergarnele7975
@diegeigergarnele7975 7 жыл бұрын
The first movement sounds so similar to Beethoven's fourteenth quartet...
@RGJWerke
@RGJWerke 3 жыл бұрын
Yea and for some reason, I feel like if Beethoven lived longer, this is what his music would have sounded like perhaps :)
@julianmatthews5785
@julianmatthews5785 2 жыл бұрын
@@RGJWerke I agree. His late quartets sound very modern. If i didn’t know the grosse fuge i would have said it was Shostakovich of prokofiev because that’s pretty much what it sounds like to me.
@punksterbass
@punksterbass 2 жыл бұрын
@@RGJWerke I believe that if Mozart had lived longer, he would also have come up with this style, even earlier. Too bad he was gone at 35
@danielshumway7046
@danielshumway7046 4 жыл бұрын
What was Bela up to? Some serious musical exploration here...
@stlrfn437
@stlrfn437 6 жыл бұрын
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@stueystuey1962
@stueystuey1962 5 жыл бұрын
Yah, es good.
@She_Gave_Me_Quite_a_Show-_-
@She_Gave_Me_Quite_a_Show-_- 4 жыл бұрын
hajnal venetian snares ♥?
@vucabrera
@vucabrera 4 жыл бұрын
At 24:46 it sounds just like "Venetian Snares - Hajnal", I wonder if he took the sample from this Bartok string quartet. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fMh6aZak1dGYaKc.html
@anzecanzek7339
@anzecanzek7339 4 жыл бұрын
Nice catch, according to Whosampled this seems to be the case, for the whole album (Rossz Csillag Alatt Született). Just amazing
@JeanMarceaux
@JeanMarceaux 3 жыл бұрын
He absolutely did, even Wikipedia states this. What a way to discover an outstanding Hungarian composer: through breakcore music of a guy responsible for such titles as "Shitfuckers".
@lrene1755
@lrene1755 3 жыл бұрын
Omg you're right 😳
@Trub8le
@Trub8le 3 жыл бұрын
The first movement sounds so much like Psychos "Finale" !!!
@turangalila1862
@turangalila1862 11 ай бұрын
Wow! It really does, and now I can't unhear it. All this is missing is that booming F-Eb-D motive at the end...
@camilorojas1744
@camilorojas1744 6 жыл бұрын
The beginning of the 1st. sounds like a very post romantic piece, an extension to the dissolution of tonality, and almost an anticipation to twelve tone music. Of course, I am not an expert not a music theorist.
4 жыл бұрын
@Dave Smith And like Robert Gerhard too!!
@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole
@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole 2 жыл бұрын
@Maximiliano Soto I agree with you, Camilo. It seems to anticipate the coming 12-tone experiment that would break-apart the molecular structure itself. (If i remember correctly, Bartok significantly before Schoenberg). I think the accomplishment with this Bartok piece it that he keeps a smooth flow of an idea while walking on the very edge of ones own being.
@ashvalentine517
@ashvalentine517 4 жыл бұрын
22:43😭
@Ackeljl
@Ackeljl 8 жыл бұрын
24:46
@hahhey1372
@hahhey1372 6 ай бұрын
Beautiful, sounds like early Schoenberg (a style which Schoenberg himself should’ve stuck too…)
@francescapusceddu5297
@francescapusceddu5297 8 жыл бұрын
Can you please write the source of the description you wrote below the video? Thanks
@olla-vogala4090
@olla-vogala4090 8 жыл бұрын
+Francesca Pusceddu allmusic.com But it's not verbatim, I usually change some parts in the description.
@francescapusceddu5297
@francescapusceddu5297 8 жыл бұрын
olla-vogala thank you for the reply
@camilorojas1744
@camilorojas1744 6 жыл бұрын
I think you should cite your source even if you don't quote it exactly. Anyway, I love your channel.
@harmonicparadox2055
@harmonicparadox2055 8 жыл бұрын
Who's the publisher of the score?
@bobschaaf2549
@bobschaaf2549 6 жыл бұрын
Boosey & Hawkes, but it's available free here: imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.1%2C_Sz.40_(Bartók%2C_Béla)
@danielalvarado7082
@danielalvarado7082 2 жыл бұрын
Me recuerda mucho a Shostakovich
@remomazzetti8757
@remomazzetti8757 Жыл бұрын
Shostakovich was 2 years old when this was written so if there's any influence, it's the other way around.
@kovacsmihaly
@kovacsmihaly 7 жыл бұрын
6:41 from Shostakovich into Holst lol
@cellotennis
@cellotennis 6 жыл бұрын
no credit to poor Ravel ? lol
@journey3451
@journey3451 3 жыл бұрын
きれいなフーガで始まるんですね。 バルトークの弦楽四重奏はほかの彼の作品と全然違うのは何でなんでしょうか???
@semiramissemiramis8765
@semiramissemiramis8765 4 ай бұрын
C'est probablement parce qu'il est parti chercher don inspiration dans la musique traditionnel des oasis en Algérie.
@saitousupekku
@saitousupekku 4 жыл бұрын
19:06 自分用 24:10
@raphaelhudson
@raphaelhudson 6 жыл бұрын
reminds me of wagner
@juliusgroot4702
@juliusgroot4702 4 жыл бұрын
siegfried idyll?
@ashvalentine517
@ashvalentine517 4 жыл бұрын
20:42
@phoebedraper3046
@phoebedraper3046 5 жыл бұрын
the third movement is quite good but Bartok's slow movements arent really my thing...
@danielshumway7046
@danielshumway7046 4 жыл бұрын
Fine, then go listen to Cheap Trick or Barry Manilow.
@ridelhouse
@ridelhouse 4 жыл бұрын
16:12
@boranmert4587
@boranmert4587 3 ай бұрын
13:04 13:41 23:47
@FabianHerrera96
@FabianHerrera96 6 жыл бұрын
ctm me dio miedo :o la wea brigida jaja
@crafalgar9719
@crafalgar9719 5 жыл бұрын
AD-AM NEE-LY's BASS LESSOOOOOOOOONS
@DigitalBath742
@DigitalBath742 7 жыл бұрын
It's like a cross between the Friday 13th score and silent movie music.
@N999OON
@N999OON 4 жыл бұрын
Hajnal yo
@ismailsevgi7479
@ismailsevgi7479 7 жыл бұрын
OMG! it feels like watching horror movie.
@heraclesunchained3663
@heraclesunchained3663 5 жыл бұрын
Why bother responding to something that you can't possibly understand?
@juliusgroot4702
@juliusgroot4702 4 жыл бұрын
Horror? What? This music is far from ''horror'' to me
@765lbsquat
@765lbsquat 5 жыл бұрын
Bartok copying Beethoven with the 1st movement.
@karlsalocks
@karlsalocks 4 жыл бұрын
That was Mozart. Please
@danielshumway7046
@danielshumway7046 4 жыл бұрын
No, definitely Haydn!
@bernabefernandeztouceda7315
@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 Жыл бұрын
He always did this disappointing, overwritten codas...
@stevepayne5965
@stevepayne5965 3 жыл бұрын
Thirty-plus minutes and not a single notable or memorable tune in the whole damned thing. But hey, it's serious art, so that makes it OK.
@alexhunter7766
@alexhunter7766 3 жыл бұрын
Thats because your memory is piss poor
@slateflash
@slateflash 2 жыл бұрын
That's a very convoluted way of saying "i don't get this music, but i have to say something"
@vaclavmiller8032
@vaclavmiller8032 2 жыл бұрын
Unironically yes. Having memorable tunes is not a necessary condition of something's being great art. Regardless, the first subject of the finale is a bit of an ear worm for me.
@hahhey1372
@hahhey1372 5 ай бұрын
If you want a memorable tune, try listening to the beginning of the allegro vivace, but accounting for your 19th century ears, listen to 24:47, a “parody” of the original subject in a mock-European-café style. What an elaborate troll.
@domingopartida5812
@domingopartida5812 3 жыл бұрын
This is boring
@bio6588
@bio6588 4 жыл бұрын
20:42
@gabbymccann2580
@gabbymccann2580 3 жыл бұрын
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