Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

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Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
Filmed live in Alice Tully Hall on February 21, 2016.
Video produced by Ibis Productions.
Artists:
The Danish String Quartet (Frederik Øland, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello).
Watch the full performance of this work here: cmslc.nyc/2N0qttF

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@masteroftheflyingyoutube 5 ай бұрын

Upon listening to a performance of Op 131, Schubert said, “After this, what is left for us to write?

@judyo923 21 күн бұрын

As Schubert was dying - his friends came to play for him. This was his last request. Op. 131 by the giant composer, Beethoven.

@francoisbrousseau4409 7 жыл бұрын

Opus 131: one of the summits of human creation.

@crawyler 4 жыл бұрын

Vous avez raison, et c'était aussi, dit-on, le quatuor préféré de Beethoven ! J'aimerais que le premier mouvement ne finisse jamais…

@jimreid7954 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing. That's all I can say.

@joeyo2481 5 ай бұрын

Hey man, amen

@nate7639 2 жыл бұрын

1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto expressivo 0:01-7:24 2. Allegro molto vivace 7:26-10:24 3. Allegro moderato - Adagio 10:24-11:11 4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile 11:13-25:03 5. Presto 25:06-30:17 6. Adagio quasi un poco andante 30:20-32:38 7. Allegro 32:38-end What a spectacular performance of an amazing work! Hope this helps!

@juventano1939 5 ай бұрын

Grazie

@stevebauer1620 Жыл бұрын

The second adagio was in Band of Brothers and brought me to this work. It’s one of the greatest of Beethoven works. Achingly beautiful

@Two2onefive Жыл бұрын

BoB brought me here also. I've never heard of this before but now every time I hear it, it brings me sadness.

@STVG71 Жыл бұрын

It is amazing how music before your generation existed and it wasn't just banging on rocks. It's almost like people before you have created music. You should really broaden your horizons. There are a ton of "hidden gems" when it comes to classical music.

@darthmong7196 Жыл бұрын

I tell you one thing about the krauts.... They sure clean up good.

@gabrielle.47533 Жыл бұрын

Re-watch Band of Brothers now...Episode 9 brought me here, too.

@matthewgabbard6415 11 ай бұрын

When he said “it’s not Mozart, it’s Beethoven,” it was one of the worst indictments anyone could have thrown at Germany. How could a culture that produced this do what they did? Sadly I’m afraid we are all capable of such contradiction

@Ploismify 7 жыл бұрын

"Beethoven wants to preserve an element of uncertainty in his music (this song), making our brains beg for the one chord that he refuses to give us. He saves that chord for the end." from Jonah Lehrer's article on music and the emotion

@lucasalvarez8524 3 жыл бұрын

Thats exactly how I feel in the lead-up to 22:58. The two minutes that follow are a rollercoaster ride.

@tanyatang6201 3 жыл бұрын

it's a PIECE

@aseemtasingh8719 2 жыл бұрын

I read that in my ielts exam

@dusho9813 2 жыл бұрын

after doing ielts reading test i came here

@user-fi5zf9il8z Жыл бұрын

I love how everyone just open-face coughs as if it's a volume contest instead of coughing into their sleeves like a decent person

@allenthomson5603 Жыл бұрын

Probably the best cello recording I've heard. On my grado headphones the coughing is panoramic and omnipresent. I thought people in the room with me were coughing. Probably 200 coughs of various magnitudes in 39 minutes.

@User0resU-1 Жыл бұрын

Listen again, I just coughed at 4:34, you might hear it... a short, sharp bark in c flat.

@die_schlechtere_Milch 2 жыл бұрын

ppl who cough in concert are living the meme life

@renzo6490 Жыл бұрын

Why I never attend live performances anymore. Coughing, perfume and tobacco smells,talking,rustling of programs and candy wrappers. Give me a solid studio performance in the comfort and silence of my living room.

@cz7425 2 ай бұрын

Most Danish-looking group of Danes I ever saw.

@dougdumbrill7234 Жыл бұрын

Who could not be thrilled by that first chord of the last movement!😳

@marwan151078 3 жыл бұрын

I was there. An unforgettable night. I remember I could not stop crying!

@jayjones2821 3 жыл бұрын

Late Beethoven has made me cry so much over the last 50 years

@kimura3033 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the best String Quartet ever written?

@rockytoptom Жыл бұрын

Possibly... I can't get enough of it and I'm definitely more of as symphony fan with Beethoven but THIS IS KILLER

@olivierbeltrami Жыл бұрын

I just wish the last movement would never end.

@rsr789 Жыл бұрын

Beethoven considered it his most perfect single work and Schubert requested that his friends string quartet play it for him... remarking "After this, what is left for us to write?", Schubert died 5 days later. So, that's some pretty solid statements there.

@moxyblackfiddler Жыл бұрын

It inspired me to play thr violin

@MaxwellKaye Жыл бұрын

@@rsr789 not only that, Schubert specifically requested to hear it on his deathbed!

@OttoHunt 4 жыл бұрын

I love how the cellist stretches, at a couple of points, the tempo a bit. Altogether, a masterful interperetation.

@joelc202 5 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite performance of Beethoven Op. 131!

@roybrewer7865 7 ай бұрын

Man, those chords at the end of that section, at 7:20ish are GREAT!!!!! perfect

@peachesgoose640 2 жыл бұрын

The couple of minutes from 30:20 is my favourite sequence, and it finishes with a bang!

@juanmanuelportillo9293 Жыл бұрын

Not even the ignorant clapping of some public at the end of the Presto was enough to stain this magnificent rendition (the best recording I know) of op. 131

@RogertheGS 3 ай бұрын

"Five movements, huh? A quartet can't have any more than that, right?"

@antcal9972 4 жыл бұрын

Exceptionally good performance of a monumental work.

@a.jamesstretton3813 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Ant Cal

@matthewkujawa9553 3 жыл бұрын

One of Beethovens best works in my opinion.

@clayliu 3 жыл бұрын

One of his favourites too!

@alanosterman7130 2 жыл бұрын

I wrote this down when I first heard it. On the old "Charlie Rose Show, on PBS (I wish it was still on...miss it.), interviewing Andre Previn. Andre said that he wanted this played at his funeral. This was on April 1, 2009. I don't know if he ever got his wish. Rest in Peace.

@Baczkowa78 9 күн бұрын

Beethoven called it his best work. I don’t believe that, but what do I know. Many artists like things they’ve done which aren’t always the public’s favourite.

@carlosbashuertas 6 жыл бұрын

Desgarradoramente trágico el primer movimiento de este, el más íntimo y profundo pronunciamiento musical, directo del alma de un Beethoven que echa una mira atrás a su vida, con resignación y la sabiduría que dan los años. De 40 minutos, esta obra tiene una duración de sinfonía y reta su propio género de cámara con sus 7 movimientos. En el centro hay un andante de 15 minutos, precioso pero impreciso, ¿qué nos quiere decir el maestro? Este cuarteto, fácilmente el más grandioso jamás compuesto, termina en una furiosa determinación, esta es la vida y no hay marcha atrás, abrázala tal cual. Excepcional interpretación de este conjunto danés.

@michaelkearney3646 Жыл бұрын

Oops. Big fingers, small keys ... I agree -- the concentration needed in order to do justice to convey the degree of emotional expression and intellectual depth of this quartet

@joeyo2481 5 ай бұрын

I was going to reply to your comment in Spanish, but I know this is the most magnificent piece of music ever written on earth. My brother, Willis E Overholt is now in heaven signing his signature of approval.

@petermcaleercomposer 3 жыл бұрын

Great playing. The end of the fugue reduced me to uncontrolled weeping. I don't mind admitting.

@Gelch01 5 ай бұрын

Masters of their craft, truly an eargasm.

@georgepoppe5763 2 жыл бұрын

the Beautiful sad sweetness of Beethoven

@lenteach 7 жыл бұрын

heartfelt,romantic Beethoven. makes you see the possibilities of life,goodness,love.what we are made of.

@andreashelling3076 Жыл бұрын

The best single movement chamber music piece?!

@XrollhaX 6 жыл бұрын

Band of Brother fans, 30:20 :)

@aliciabanister8188 5 жыл бұрын

Bless

@Nautilus1972 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir. Currahee!

@saintroddy 5 жыл бұрын

Cheers.

@danielaveryglassmyer4202 4 жыл бұрын

combat vet here - this moves me - thx for the tip sir...

@StevenZybert 4 жыл бұрын

I'm literally writing a research paper and needed a reference. You're the best! lmao

@allendiaz04 6 жыл бұрын

Honestly just here for the part after 30:10, saw it on Band of Brother, then when it jumps to part 7 allegro, amazing, only play this and Chopin Noct Op. 9 No. 2 and always get ask what is playing because it sounds amazing, I listen to trap in Chicago so shows the different type of genre I listen to. BRAVO!!!!!!!!

@bobkasino8244 2 жыл бұрын

This is the last musical work schubert had wishes to hear right before his death..

@Primitiveimage 6 жыл бұрын

Everyone in the audience has asthma apparently

@termeownator 6 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like full blown TB

@plumb.474 6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the same person...over & over & over...how selfish, disrespectful & irresponsible...a) to not stay home if youre sick & b) not to bring cough drops when you KNOW youre sick...& apparently not caring how disresprctful it is to the performers/whole musical experience...whew, Im done now...

@Primitiveimage 6 жыл бұрын

Martha Barrett fully agree couldn't even focus on the quartet

@pempotfoy6206 3 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine how anoying it must be in the audience

@Kresh42 3 жыл бұрын

Need Bugs Bunny to shoot them lol.

@Allanfearn 2 жыл бұрын

If you are distracted by the coughing you are not listening to the music. Some of us learnt these quartets from 78s - pretty well used ones, too - or AM radio. The artificial (these days digitally enforced) silence which is now thought to be required for music has been around for just about 40 years - if you ever get it. Do you really have a totally silent listening environment at home, even? If you were listening to the coughing on this recording with even half an ear, you'd have realised that there were a number of folk trying quite hard not to cough and not managing to. That was what you always got or get with the price of your concert ticket. No use complaining to the composer, or even sympathising with him. He'd probably have been overwhelmed with Freude to hear even a single cough.

@ericlaurent4655 Жыл бұрын

@yoliv2469 3 жыл бұрын

Best recording on KZfaq

@Nautilus1972 5 жыл бұрын

Curahee!

@jimreid7954 4 жыл бұрын

Never a dull moment throughout and so many unexpected surprises - wow the man's a genius.

@lawrencetaylor4101 Күн бұрын

Merci.

@moxyblackfiddler Жыл бұрын

28:31 epic page turn

@lenteach 7 жыл бұрын

there is purpose to human life

@borisnikolic246 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. To enjoy it while it lasts.

@emmarose6590 Жыл бұрын

Sixth movement will forever be my favorite piece of music.

@josephcanning9866 5 жыл бұрын

30:20 Band of brothers...

@belmon38 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic performance of the greatest quartet music

@Minusixii 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful music and I'm distracted by the musicians' increasingly glorious mustaches the further right you look in the group.

@antoniogentile250 3 жыл бұрын

Op. 131 è uno dei capolavori non solo della musica, ma del creato! Ultimato nel maggio 1826, 10 mesi prima di morire ( 26.3.1827)

@winnipegism 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing. I didn’t notice the coughing until I read the comments, lol. This Opus is miraculous!

@DinnySkip 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful piece of music. Extremely well done.

@anaceleste2631 5 жыл бұрын

Great performans !!!

@amriteshmaitra6877 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Rendition.

@cloudrunner11 6 жыл бұрын

I love that this whole thing is a slow fugue. Beethoven himself was inspired by the greats, it seems.

@colinmurphy2214 5 жыл бұрын

cloudrunner11 who isn’t?

@guacamole7493 Жыл бұрын

@@colinmurphy2214 Bach. This work stands along with Bach's Art of the Fugue as one of a handful of greatest compositions ever.

@djmiller232 6 ай бұрын

An absolutely beautiful performance, Of a brilliant, inspired composition, Completely ruined by an ignorant audience.

@gamefanapril 4 жыл бұрын

Beethoven was a musical genius.

@nvcool1 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say he was a genius. He was more of a hard worker. If you compare his trascripts with mozart's beethovens is scratched out everywhere with revisions trying to get it right where mozart just writes everything from start to finish in one go.

@nielssvendsen2028 3 жыл бұрын

@@nvcool1 Of coarse Beethoven was a genius. He revisioned would music could express. Mozart of course was a genius as well, but not as personal and original as Beethoven.

@LionKing-mv2uk 3 жыл бұрын

@@nvcool1 No he was a genius. Look at an analysis of the counterpoint in this piece, no one, not even mozart comes close (Beethoven uses retrograde, inversion, augmentation, stretto etc mozart NEVER use this many techniques). Plus Beethoven was the greatest improvisor in his time.

@nvcool1 3 жыл бұрын

@@nielssvendsen2028 Just a personal opinion. I like to use the analogy of Einstein-Mozart vs Elon Musk-Beethoven. Born prodigy vs Game changer. Feel like the personality fits too.

@zlodrim9284 2 жыл бұрын

@@nvcool1 Equating Elon Musk with Beethoven, seriously?

@thomasbrown3325 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks McWhorter; great performance.

@kathiebrobeck3426 10 ай бұрын

what is music all about? this piece really makes you think.

@ernestoferreri 3 жыл бұрын

There have been scores of first-rate performances/recordings of the Beethoven quartets. That having been accomplished, why don't they play other works then? Well, if you're a mountain climber there's only one Everest. This is a most uncommonly fine offering of this music from beyond; can't imagine this any more lucid, expressive or comprehensive. Bravo!

@robertmifkovic6325 4 жыл бұрын

Phenomenal performance

@TeeJay-qq5qk 4 ай бұрын

please please if you got a cough just leave just leave we're here to hear the quartet not your COVID

@atomariola6410 10 ай бұрын

Brava!

@richardclark8656 4 ай бұрын

Bravi ?? !! Please don’t take this as a criticism, just wondering if this is what you meant. I’m pretty sure congrats to several people collectively would have the i suffix but stand to be corrected! Anyway, I agree!!

@joeyo2481 5 ай бұрын

Magnifico in every language possible by the need of king, Jesus folks he’s coming to get us!!!!!!!

@DiamondEagle73 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome interpretation...

@javiergracia4340 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, fantastic, fantastic

@marcospeedo5412 5 жыл бұрын

Revolution! Revolution! Revolution!

@roybrewer7865 7 ай бұрын

Still. a great great representation of Beethoven!!!!!!!

@justinweisberg1634 2 ай бұрын

30:20 - - from one of my favorite scenes in Band of Brothers

@edithoswald8417 3 жыл бұрын

Diese Musik kommt aus einer andern Sphäre . Reine schönheit

@Fox-98 2 жыл бұрын

Es ist der heilige Gral der klassischen Musik.

@felixdevilliers1 3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful performance by these quite unknown - to me - musicians.

@renzo6490 8 ай бұрын

A live music performance has its points.... But I despise sitting in a row in an auditorium ..everyone squeezed together facing forward. Surrounded by people with bad scents, bad breath, clothes that rustle, programs that rustle, hard candy wrappers that rustle, talking..keeping time with their foot, tobacco stink and applauding between movements and too soon after the final note. NO. I sit in my big chair in the living room, lights low, best quality headphones and sound system... and I am lost in the music. The world goes away. Can't have that experience in a concert HALL.

@cz7425 2 ай бұрын

Band of Brothers movement is at 30:20

@jojocamel60 9 ай бұрын

Could use some sneezing to accompany the coughing.

@kclee2502 2 жыл бұрын

나는 참 행복한 사람임을 또 오늘 확인 받는군요, 감사합니다.

@Allanfearn Жыл бұрын

Wagner - who wrote an interpretation of it as a day in Beethoven's life - in his late years (around the time of "Parsifal") used to coach string quartets in how to play this piece.

@garrysmodsketches Жыл бұрын

I always felt that prelude to tristan has many similarities with op. 131 first movement

@harrylambert7879 Жыл бұрын

33:31 is the most beautiful moment 😊

@berkefeil5646 Жыл бұрын

Coughing during the 6th movement should be illegal!

@roybrewer7865 7 ай бұрын

cello at 22:48 HELL YEAH!!!!!

@joeyo2481 5 ай бұрын

Perfect

@alexhendrix8438 5 жыл бұрын

Loved the performance. Just have to say, the first violinist looks like he could be the intelligent brother of Beavis.

@matfix1258 5 жыл бұрын

Det har du inga bevis på!

@jayjones2821 3 жыл бұрын

Beavis Jakobsen

@dwaynewhitaker6518 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah his brother

@lemuelseale1640 2 жыл бұрын

Uuuuhhh…. Yeah. Hes like, really good at music or something. I bet he thinks pantera is awesome

@toughenupfluffy7294 Жыл бұрын

TP for my bunghole?

@Ray199149 11 ай бұрын

30:19 The part which was used in the TV series Band of Brothers.

@michaeldwilson1471 4 ай бұрын

That's not Mozart. That's Beethoven.

@user-iy6vr5fr3p 8 жыл бұрын

very good

@mtalinovsky 2 жыл бұрын

мин 30-11 включена Бетховеном мелодия кол нидре - в память о его первой любви к Рахели

@edwardchoi1611 5 жыл бұрын

7:26 II. Allegro molto vivace

@kdnofyudbn5918 Жыл бұрын

Wow amazing

@petelovatt8357 2 жыл бұрын

The quartet are really distracting. I can hardly hear the coughs I came here for.

@samharrison6474 7 жыл бұрын

loll the clapping after the presto

@vonditters856 6 жыл бұрын

God damn, that was lit as fuck... as the kids would say.

@thomascoleman7396 5 жыл бұрын

I would be so pissed if I was playing this!

@mendyviola Жыл бұрын

@@thomascoleman7396why, people are enjoying it!

@dddinah9456 3 жыл бұрын

I feel so sorry for these wonderful musicians to have their hard work of playing a sacred Beethoven piece for a huge audience of avid devoted listeners, only to have an extremely SELFISH cougher ruin so many portions of the entire length of the piece. I mean why couldn’t he have left the room after the first three congested, LOUDLY DISRUPTIVE outbursts?

@jamesnicol3831 2 жыл бұрын

agree the coughing should be mixed out of future releases of this performance

@lemuelseale1640 2 жыл бұрын

There is always one.

@treatb09 2 жыл бұрын

We have sound proof masks now. I believe they should be required for every performance

@toughenupfluffy7294 Жыл бұрын

There's always a narcissist in the room, making sure you know it. Notice how they wait for the silences to hack a lugie?

@mendyviola Жыл бұрын

It’s live music. Well timed coughing is a part of the experience.

@cutefahad1000 2 жыл бұрын

Wow🔥

@leovelazquez5098 2 жыл бұрын

30:00 Band of Brothers escena

@zachchain8477 2 жыл бұрын

Goddamn, this music is so tragically beautiful. Stop listening to the 2 minute BS that's on the radio nowadays. Rock and roll used to be well orchestrated.

@superRoot 2 жыл бұрын

That one guy coughing the entire time.

@Ben-ru3xb 4 жыл бұрын

How dare they cough that much!

@vilemflusser9794 3 жыл бұрын

These bastards should be kicked out

@frayagu9975 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@asienlatierra 18 күн бұрын

Can you tell me why the number of the quartet is not included in the title of the video? The vast majority of people, even amateurs, know Beethoven's quartets by their number, and not by their opus number or whether they are in C or D.... . ¿Se puede saber por qué no viene en el titulo del video el numero del cuarteto ...? La inmensa mayoría de la gente, incluso de los aficionados, conoce los cuartetos de Beethoven por su numero, y no por su numero de opus o si es en C, o en D....

@Ballelars 3 жыл бұрын

I'm here, for the world famous coughing choir.

@user-wc8wp5ev1r 2 ай бұрын

7악장: 32:25

@jayjones2821 3 жыл бұрын

As good as music gets

@edwardweaver1467 5 ай бұрын

Sweet.

@jackcrisco7246 Ай бұрын

If anyone is here because of band of brothers, you need to start at 30:20

@jayjones2821 3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@John-fn7dj 2 жыл бұрын

Truth Beethoven here, keeps it original! Very German Ensemble Style, not that American ensemble style as they cut things off in the last 3mins!

@Blupearl2003 2 жыл бұрын

Band of Brothers brought me here.

@UnNombreExpectacular 6 жыл бұрын

Me llega a lo más profundo, significa tanto...no puedo contener las lagrimas.

@User0resU-1 Жыл бұрын

I'm not a fan of Beethoven but would like to be one, and better informed. I liked this, can anyone recommend other works of his I could listen to to get my foot in the door with him. I love baroque music, if that helps. TIA.

@BRNRDNCK Жыл бұрын

I would suggest to you his most popular piano sonatas: numbers 8, 14, 21, 23. If you like them, also try 29. These are “obvious” recommendations but popular for a reason.

@razvan_3008 Жыл бұрын

I have quite a few: Symphonies: 3rd (1st movement banger, but the other ones are also great), 5th (1st movement is the most famous piece in music history, and with good reason), 7th (famous slow 2nd movement), 9th/Ode to joy (every single movement is perfection) Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Piano sonata No. 14 and No. 23 And this piece (obviously), especially the 7th movement.

@ultimateconstruction 8 күн бұрын

@@BRNRDNCKIncorrect. No.14 is one of His weakest works, yet is the second most popular Beethoven piece. Popularity and quality are inversely proportional. Remember this for the rest of your life.