Danish String Quartet plays Beethoven quartet no. 15 in A minor, op. 132, 3rd mov. (Molto adagio)

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5 жыл бұрын

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

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@lindastrauss1842 Жыл бұрын

When it can’t get any more sublime, it gets more sublime.

@Hobbs-Bagley Жыл бұрын

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.

@danishquartet Жыл бұрын

Thanks Timothy! Highly appreciated ♥️

@roycelassley5759 Жыл бұрын

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! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftKJrNl-1pbSXWQ.html:36

@coletteleroy9299 Жыл бұрын

❤

@roybrewer7865 11 ай бұрын

yes. I agree.

@patriciahill1101 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@toiletjunpaper 3 жыл бұрын

You have a good music taste

@jeroendijstelblom8614 2 жыл бұрын

‘You are not only you, you are the universe’ 🌅

@HelenJoannides Жыл бұрын

Me too. it gives to me new life, heals me. I think Beethoven was communicating with angels when he wrote this.

@adelasussman3838 7 ай бұрын

Beautifully and eloquently stated! I so agree!!

@mendyviola 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheShadowfakx Жыл бұрын

For years have felt, thought the same. We are blessed with these notions.

@JochenVogel Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@clarab3249 Жыл бұрын

I feel the same

@hermesnoelthefourthway 2 жыл бұрын

"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 8 ай бұрын

A great comparison - Blake and Beethoven.

@hermesnoelthefourthway 8 ай бұрын

@@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

@joelagee900 3 ай бұрын

. . . under every grief and pine . . .

@machida5114 4 жыл бұрын

The most beautiful melody on the history of Western classical music.

@Mukundanghri 3 жыл бұрын

This melody is transcendental. There is no comparison to the atima this music depicts.

@Alix777. 9 ай бұрын

There's no melody because Beethoven has never been able to write a good one

@erikgeiger6601 7 ай бұрын

@@Alix777. Okay then, the most beautiful 16 note motive in Western classical music. Is that better?

@satosmi9408 6 ай бұрын

@@Alix777. I bet you never know more than 15 Beethoven pieces. If all the late passages fail to please you melodically, I would be very impressed 😂

@Alix777. 6 ай бұрын

@@satosmi9408 I know most of his catalogue and played several works. So ? That doesn't change the fact that he's a bad melodist, and a minor composer.

@alexanderteachernyc 2 жыл бұрын

This glorious performance deserves not to be interrupted by a commercial.

@pr0nkj3wail Жыл бұрын

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@danishquartet Жыл бұрын

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!

@billcomstock3721 4 жыл бұрын

Such a moving interpretation. It was like listening to somebody praying.

@johns4571 Жыл бұрын

Well, Ludwig, you got this absolutely right !

@Assalariado762 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Nightblaze20 5 жыл бұрын

This is the most beautiful music!! It’s like someone is washing my brain.... cleaning out all negativity and other impurities.

@custardapplejazz 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. This is like a hymn glorifying God. I am listening to this after a difficult day.

@Alix777. 9 ай бұрын

Boring and dull like everything this overrated composer ever wrote

@Ivan_1791 3 ай бұрын

I have dropped many tears listening to this recording. Thank you kindly.

@ChristopherBrooks_kenor 2 жыл бұрын

The Danish are the best quartet: only vibrato when necessary. The choral is heavenly.

@Alasgar.G Жыл бұрын

Thank you Danish String Quartet for this performance, listening to this masterpiece from Azerbaijan!

@classicaltony1 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@AlanBeck-sg4yq 2 ай бұрын

Blessed, beloved Beethoven.

@williamhicks2299 4 жыл бұрын

Daring, mystical, revelatory! The greatest string quartet ensemble before the public today.

@diblasic 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@danishquartet 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Christine. Our thoughts are with you and your father!

@1perykles 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@alexpaget7482 2 жыл бұрын

Funny way to remain silent. Imagine reducing this piece to your anodyne similes. Imagine reducing it to words at all.

@pkrones 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have heard 3 renditions so far, and this is the best. You describe it well. May your father have passed into this exquisite world of sound.

@nrosen8794 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@RyanZakMusic 2 жыл бұрын

played with reverence. thank you.

@charliecarroll5669 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful performance! Such rich tone and sensitivity

@user-kc6jq1wc1t 2 жыл бұрын

4人が創る和音。驚くほどに、作曲の意図になっている。美しい。

@anthonyabbott90 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@patriciahill1101 3 жыл бұрын

Prayer and then exultation at prayer being answered. Really the most sublime music I know.

@danishquartet 3 жыл бұрын

We too!

@wastelanded3 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@juergensteiniger5118 Жыл бұрын

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.

@S1CKMON 5 жыл бұрын

what a piece of music! brilliante playing

@andrewb9974 3 жыл бұрын

Superb...you could hear a pin drop with that kind of gentleness

@user-kc6jq1wc1t 2 жыл бұрын

すばらしい演奏。4人のココロが美しい。

@user-kc6jq1wc1t 2 жыл бұрын

Danish String Quartet が創る和音は、すぐれて透明で、この作品だけが生み出す不協和な音空間も構成して、素晴らしい。

@hymnodyhands 2 ай бұрын

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!

@InstrumentManiac 5 жыл бұрын

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

@danishquartet Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Luke! ♥️

@kedemberger8773 2 жыл бұрын

Huge risk taking which pays off spectacularly well. Kudos. Im certain thats the way it was meant to be played.

@oscargranda5385 2 жыл бұрын

El sonido del Padre Universal!!!!!

@bobmccarthy5022 Жыл бұрын

Pure beauty

@user-kc6jq1wc1t 2 жыл бұрын

音色が独立することで、響きの空間を受容させている美感覚。

@ispeedonthe405 Жыл бұрын

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.

@barbarafrancini3980 3 жыл бұрын

Shameful DISGUSTING ads interrupting this heavenly music deserve HANGING

@firmansyahreksowibowo2381 4 жыл бұрын

my best piece of music from beethoven !!

@blur-blade4981 Жыл бұрын

Such a good performance - closest to perfection I’ve heard, each player excellent and in perfect time with each other.

@tannhaeuserx464 3 жыл бұрын

Beethoven's greatest Adagio.

@fredericolourenco1972 Жыл бұрын

There simply aren't words to describe how incredibly beautiful this performance is.

@thaddeusdubois6209 3 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous in every way possible......

@Ian24s 3 жыл бұрын

The depth of the man is unfathomable ! Awesome witnessing you chaps wrestling with it. Kudos to the camera people.

@DavidWilliamRose 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@danishquartet Жыл бұрын

Thanks David! The contrast between the two performances could not be bigger :) All the best to you! /DSQ

@jan-pietervanwaasbergen9870 Жыл бұрын

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

@tractotus 4 жыл бұрын

Great performance of the greatest & most profound music ever written for string quartet!

@user-vn2bi3dq1c 2 ай бұрын

Господи, какая прекрасная музыка...плачу..❤

@darioalbertini88 3 жыл бұрын

You guys are really up there with the Lindsays...what a sound, what a harmony amongst the instruments, what a feeling. I'm really, really speechless.

@telephilia 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, could bring one to tears.

@JuanL8pez 11 ай бұрын

De verdad sublime

@lichenthrope__ 5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite recordings of one of my favorite Beethoven movements by one of my favorite quartets!! This made my day.

@martincaracoche4657 3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@user-dd6ng1wn1b 4 жыл бұрын

I am a long time fan of the DQ, but just discovered this. How nice. Beautifully played, and not an obvious choice for KZfaq. Great camerawork too. Nice to watch during the quarantine.

@estkall 2 жыл бұрын

Sublime! 😭😭👏👏❤️❤️

@JochenVogel Жыл бұрын

Thank You, thank You, thank You for recording my favourite piece of music! And for playing it like You do!

@scottfraser9271 Жыл бұрын

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.

@danishquartet Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Scott!

@franckcoinchelin9862 3 жыл бұрын

une musique aux étoiles portée par une interprétation de grande classe

@juergensteiniger5118 Жыл бұрын

Das Zusammenspiel der Musiker ist bewundernswert…Danke für diese Interpretation.

@michael-davidarrkerns4799 4 жыл бұрын

No words. Magnificent...magnificent.

@love_do 2 жыл бұрын

수십번 반복해서 듣고 있어요. 데니쉬 콰르텟 최고👍👍👍

@user-qu2it1pu6f 2 жыл бұрын

데니쉬도 좋지만 일단 알반베르크가 정석이죠

@jonathanfrank1073 4 жыл бұрын

Absolute perfection. Thank you

@amyhinrichs4519 2 жыл бұрын

So glad you came to the Twin Cities recently….!

@custardapplejazz 3 жыл бұрын

I am so happy to have discovered you on NPR Tiny Desk. Please escape COVID and come to Sydney to perform !

@user-xg9ow1sl7b 3 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful in a surreal way. One of the best interpretations.. >_

@580bulldog 5 жыл бұрын

I almost cry. Thank you

@alexpaget7482 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@clifbalderas7768 7 ай бұрын

A beautiful and emotive performance of Beethovens masterpiece.❤❤❤❤

@aliemoek8976 7 ай бұрын

this touches your heart

@gilbertocalzolari8770 4 ай бұрын

enormous performance

@dagnijapachai7026 Жыл бұрын

Heavenly 🤍

@machida5114 4 жыл бұрын

It is a whole body performance.

@roybrewer7865 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVe this!!!!!!

@barbarabarry3799 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@michelevolz7769 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful...

@nikosblaxabas5338 4 ай бұрын

the absolutely most sacred amen ever written ... what a moving performance.. ❤

@teresaloureiro2525 3 жыл бұрын

... 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 .

@HelenJoannides 8 ай бұрын

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.

@guilhermecaldas7358 4 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!!!!

@roybrewer7865 3 жыл бұрын

non vib. chords in the opening section are GREAT!!

@clarab3249 Жыл бұрын

Wunderbar!! Vielen Dank. 😥

@mihaelaminulescu 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, the inner peace and peace aroud...

@Tracotel Жыл бұрын

That is too much beauty. Thanks...

@musicaljourney2981 4 жыл бұрын

Thrilling experience to the heart and to the senses, by far the best performance I've ever listened of the 3rd movement. Thank you very much!!!

@hazhoner5727 3 жыл бұрын

Simply beuatiful. As it must be

@jessicamidon 3 жыл бұрын

Especially needing this recording now. You guys rule.

@conniekampas7074 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful ❤️🇺🇸💕

@maryfrancherry1490 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Shargs99andahalf 9 ай бұрын

Truly sublime

@doraedecioinacio2384 3 ай бұрын

Vdd...eu me transportei para um local mais elevado ouvindo essa maravilha

@Bati_ 2 жыл бұрын

I'm looking forward to Prism IV and V!

@roybrewer7865 3 жыл бұрын

good job fellas!!

@MrKurtank 2 жыл бұрын

thank you, I look forward to seeking out your concerts in London, or indeed, anywhere....

@danishquartet 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! See you then :)

@steffenmrsk4720 3 жыл бұрын

Every note from the heart! Very inspirational! Thank you! 😊

@mcusa77 3 жыл бұрын

Nice thank you.

@CHIELITO 4 жыл бұрын

you are the best

@michaelcondie969 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@brunocavallaro659 8 ай бұрын

Gracias!

@antoninobuccheri699 3 жыл бұрын

Grazie un meraviglioso regalo... Un suono che è una vera preghiera di ringraziamento "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" l'attacco del primo Andante "Neue Kraft fühlend" è perfettamente tenuto in equilibrio tra intimismo e forza. Thanks a wonderful gift ... A sound that is a real prayer of thanks "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" the attack of the first Andante "Neue Kraft fühlend" is perfectly balanced between intimacy and strength. I apologize for any errors in the English translated automatically by google translate

@RosCharron 5 ай бұрын

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!

@machida5114 4 жыл бұрын

素晴らしい演奏。