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OMG yes, wasn't he charismatic?!?

Ditto....what a great warm character he used to be. I once attended to 2 concerts in a week: the Amadeus Quartet and later a Heifetz recital. The Amadeus Quartet filled me with warmth and love, Heifetz was very perfect and lacked the degree of warmth I expected.

The amadeus quartet is the best of all time. But then there was a lot of competition.

je suis s'accord, M. Clement: je vous imprie de chercher, maintenant le schillerinstitute.com International Conference September 5th and 6th, 2020, which is about to begin it's final panel today, Sunday, at 3PM EST, USA. Norbert Brainin was an intimate colleague of the International LaRouche movement and led a Seminar in 1995 on the Motifuhrung principle which he and Mr. Lyndon LaRouche mutually embraced as the driving dynamic of all great Classical composition. Norbert was perhaps the most profound living exponent and practitioner of that Principle, which is what is wrenching your heart at every stroke of his bow -- it is what Einstein sought when he turned to his violin and J S Bach when confronted with the most profound paradoxes of physics and universal physical principles. There is only one Universe, and the laws that govern it are accessible to the Human Mind -- is there any higher understanding of that than is grasped in this rendering of this exquisite quartet? If we all strive for this quality of Mind, is there any problem confronted by our Human condition that cannot be solved? Je pense: Non!

Norbert is the god of quartet violonists, and Amadeus a gift for the humanity... So much love in their playing...

@@laurentyves3463amadeus quartet will forever be the greatest!

Doch, Franz Schubert ist unsterblich!

Paul Dorgh: Their Immortality LIVES IN YOU! Of course they are Immortal as long as mere mortals in the flesh perpetuate their works!

Correction: to Paul DORON, last comment on the Immortality of these musicians and the composers!! And of yourself!

Merci pour ces précisions.

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+Emilio Pessina His vibrato got rather fat as he himself got bigger and bigger! But his ease with the bow is astonishing and, as you say, his playing in the adagio is wonderful.

for me is the worst vibrato i ve never heard :-)

No doubt that they're 5 excellent musicians and performers. But the ensemble performance is poor, the 4th. movement is simply awful, heavy, graceless. 2nd.-3rd. movements better, 1st. and 4th. really to be forgotten.

I agree entirely. There is no actual 'ensemble' cohesion here.This often happens when 'superstars' play together and YT has many examples of this. As a performance of one of the peaks of chamber music this is really quite shabby.

Actually, his vibrato is moving all over the place. We must remember that this is a fairly old performance, from an era when the primarius was the king and the others were considered accompaniment. To call the bit added at the end a rehearsal (my understanding: the process of arriving at a shared interpretation) is sad. No communication is heard. It is just a rehearsal for the silly zooming about of the camera team, and shows that they initially played more wrong notes than in the performance. Brainin is especially horrible in that part. Modern quartets have a much higher ensemble culture, are often technically better than this, and have largely gotten rid of the wobbly vibrato. Given all that I still find it interesting to hear, even if not quite up to modern standards.

Branin transmitted the deafness in his ears, the arthritis in his hands, and his obvious center of self. he did not transmit Schubert. And any music that sounds like 'talk' is wordy. get it? that's what is beautifull about music... we don't talk, we emote, we feel, we translate the music with NO WORDS. Terrible similie.

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@@mikeriley6278 I think you should study more how this piece was actually written

@@mikeriley6278 "deafness".... Have you ever SERIOUSLY played in a string quartet/quintet? Do you really know what kind of work Is needed for good intonation? Please have respect and humbleness for those big music columns

All of the above, absolutely Marvelous performance!!!

Question: as my father used to put it: "they don't make 'em like this anymore." And I would not be speaking like this except that Norbert, and the others are so wonderful, one cannot imagine a ' finer ensemble.

you just always wanted to use this word 'bravissimo'. save it for a decent recording like Melos with Rostropovich. this is dog sh...

you are deaf, then

The recording with Casals and Stern/Schneider/Katims/Tortelier is also very nice

Für mich das berührendste Stück Kammermusik. Es hat mich immer so gepackt und durchgerüttelt, dass iches nicht zu oft hören konnte. Hier spricht der liebe Gott.

@@karlhpfeiffer Und ich wurde dier zustimmen.

Ed il nostro Piero Farulli del grande Quartetto Italiano

I agree. I am an old man, but if born later I suspect I would have missed out on this beauty.

Digital support made great music accesible to a wide universe of music lovers that could'nt pay the expensive tickets of Metropolitan and other music rooms in America and Europe neither pay a travel to reach the correspondent cities. Thanks KZfaq. I have never listened this quintet in a music room, no wonder I consider it is the summit of chamber music and the Everest of all occidental music.

They did instead, and much! at the point that their hands were shaking with emotion and they misclicked.... ;)

I perfectly agree, their stylistic differences are obvious. In my eyes, even such great artists should have had some more rehearsals... ;-)

Wow, what a Testament you have given to Schubert's genius and the power of this collaborative performance as you have identified it exquisitely. I cannot call that agnostic. The Nemenlose (nameless) power you describe is acknowledgement of a force greater than any one if us.

@ Mark Hughes. " ...riding out as men together with pennants fluttering." Great description.

C'est "Un peu de bon Dieu qui entre dans votre âme par les oreilles... !" (L. Pelletier) ;-))

Exactement, on peut dire: Sublime. Chercher schillerinstitute.com concerts et seminars, Master classes avec Mr. Brainin. One such is displayed here on this list of other videos, as I am responding to your note: it is titled: 4. Norbert Brainin Motifuhrung Seminar 1995 LaRouchePAC videos. My email is jaclorraine@gmail.com if you wish to find more correspondence regarding their work with this extraordinary individual.

Yes isn't it amazing (and wonderful) that the 2 quintets' interpretations are so different and yet both exquisite. it is the most amazing piece of music, outrageously complex and subtle but still emotionally direct.

Another great performance on KZfaq is by the Canadian Afiara Quartet with Joel Krosnick as the extra cellist, who also gives an introduction to the music. A truly fantastic performance.

Just remember, this masterwork is a *quintet*, -- not a quartet. ;-)

@@IvanGreindl Brainin at one time tried hard to change the standard tuning (throughout the music world) from 440 down to 415 - I wish he had succeeded.

Unusually slow tempo too but interesting

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not Emerson. Melos

yes i agree it is disturbing the flow. listen to how janine jansen and friends perform, that sounds 'contemporary', this smells a bit 'stale', like an old recording - of an old master yes. they are masters but with an interpretation like in an old movie; beautiful but our taste has changed.. the coherence of say the juilliard is broken, the quartetts are not quartetts for nothing..

You have no standing to be so offensively rude. These are outstanding musicians who have made their reputations in years of wonderful and much appreciated concertising. You can disagree about points of interpretations, but to say that the performances are bad just because they don't agree with you is completely out of order. Grow up.

I think you need to be more humble in front of those great columns of music.

@albertlanda1146 Indeed, in the Adagio Brainin exaggerates sometimes the syncopation and plays a little to forced. I think he wants to "lead" here. I do not find this so bad. What is much worse here is the very bad intonation of the viola player Farulli and the 2nd violoncello player.

ok, so you're just a pig, got it.

There’s no accounting for taste, but in this case you are wrong.

The Greatest MASTER of Chamber Music that ever lived(to date)!!