Eine Sternstunde der klassischen Musik! Wer sich die Zeit nehmen will, dieses Quintett mehrmals zu hören, wird immer neue Schönheiten darin entdecken. Und: Absolut brillante Interpreten! Sie spielen die gesanglichen Passagen nicht nur betörend schön, sie lassen in manchen Details einen "musikalischen Witz" funkeln, dass es einfach begeistert.

Sanity and civility in this mad world.

1st movement - 0:00 2nd - 10:49 3rd - 20:40 4th - 25:04

chaque oeuvre de beethoven nous démontre qu une existence serait trop courte pour savourer toute la magie des partitions du maître de bonn, merci aux musiciens

There is so much 'conviviality', energy and inventiveness in early and middle Beethoven. His achievements from Day One are simply staggering.

My absolute Beethoven favourite!

To Xpress my adoration and admiration for Beethoven' creativity, I need more than diction. I am counting on my tears of joy as an xpression of true appreciation and love of his works.

Wunderbarer Beethoven !

Very good listening. A great way to begin the day. I would recommend it to others. Bravo Beethoven!

Don't understand why this early masterpiece of Beethoven always has been ignored on the stages. It deserves better.

I know of no better recording or live recorded performance of this piece. It is a joy to listen to it.

This quintet is just fantastic!

00:00 Mvt. 1 Allegro Moderato 10:48 Mvt 2 Adagio 20:41 Mvt 3 Scherzo 25:04 Mvt 4 Presto

A fabulous rendition of this early masterpiece, by the greatest musical genius in history. Breathtaking, sublime... wondrous.

Спасибо Вам огромное, какое чудо.

Excelente interpretação de um muito expressivo quinteto de cordas do meu grande amigo Ludwig. Ah, como me faz bem à alma!

Absolutely fantastic and completely underestimated music in a brilliant performance!

A wonderfully rich, characterful performance with a superb recording worthy of the playing and the music.

I never heard this composition.It is really young Beethoven music.Great

Quite by chance, I "discovered" this quintet about a year ago. Since then, I 'd played it very often on my MP3. I never cease to wonder how it is that I've never heard of it, much less heard it. It is absolutely magnificent and is played here with the delicacy and the humor (I believe: for example, 29:42-29:58 and 32:10-32:24)) that Beethoven imbued it. The players all, as one, enhance the joy of listening with their exquisitely delightful performance. Somehow, I fancy that Beethoven brought this masterpiece to Old Haydn, tossed it on the old man's escritoire and said "I think you'll have to admit, Herr Haydn, that I have arrived!" And Haydn, glancing at the score jealously muttered, "So you have; so you have, Young Beethoven. One day I shall pass my mantel to you." Beethoven then nodded, but to himself said: "I am already wearing it, Papa."

Quel Génie Beethoven! Et vous vous êtes rudement gentil de partager avec nous cette Belle Musique. Un Grand Merci.

OMG so good! This is a must listen for any fan of the op 18 early quartets. There is so much energy, creativity, and robustness! The final movement especially is a wild ride with the tremolo stroms with the first violin runs, and has a unique structure as well.

love those BIG FAT cello parts..ahhhhhhhhh.

majestic exuberant and nothing mozartian or haydnish in it pure beethoven where he got thus far with the string quartet idiom is far beyond the wildest imaginations of any of those composers i wish that comparisons can be left out

Genial Beethoven

Interpreti: Benjamin Bowman, violino Cornelia Löscher, violino Steven Dann, viola Michel Camille, viola Richard Lester, violoncello

What a great discovery! Thanks for viewing it!

Exquisitely superb exhilarating performance.I’m spellbound.❤

Ihre Interpretation fasziniert mich bei jedem wiederholten Hören bzw. Schauen aufs Neue.

Che meraviglia!!

A Grandiose performance, thanks !!

I like this and will be listening to it many times. Surprising for a Beethoven work that while obviously very well composed, it's developments, or sections, lines, thematic arcs, whatever you want to call them, are more fluid and long-phrased than typical later Beethoven, where contrast is so highlighted and often sharp and extremely animated. Fate isn't knocking on the door here, it's not even in the neighborhood. Nice work, Ludwig, you're well on the way at this point.

extraordinaria interpretación.

Com sempre l. V. BEETHOVEN EL MILLOR . ,ARRIVA AL FONS DE L´ANIMA HUMANA.

breathtaking

These players are so good and play together so wonderfully! It would be nice to see more on here about their background and future plans.

Perfect and dynamic and precise performance 🎉🎉 👏 👏 👏

Thanks for the post.

Love the gesture of a cellist on 10:13 when he joins end of the cadenza! True and natural reaction for this fun moment!

Simply wonderful!

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Estupenda composición del maestro Beethoven injustamente poco reconocida en su época y en la actualidad. Magníficos intérpretes también. Muchas gracias por subirla. Un placer escucharla. El genio de Bonn se manifiesta igualmente en sus grandes sinfonías como en estas obras más desconocidas, que a mí particularmente son las que más me gustan

simplemente exepcional que toquen ellos y ke cante el coro mormon del tabernáculo de salt lake. saludos desde chihuahua México.

Querido brasileiro assistindo este vídeo, seu gosto musical é incrível

I'll listen to it again!

Wow that's gorgeous

Fantastic and inspirational.

The economic benefits of this beautiful quintet were donated, in its entirety, by Beethoven to Regina Susanne Bach (daughter of J. S. Bach), who was in misery! This gesture is a sign of Beethoven's humanity.

Ludwig, muß es sein? Es muß sein!

exceptional

The greatest quintet of them all.

Love this piece, great performance...

Amooooooo!

Incidentally, this is Beethoven's only string quintet.

yes, fuller and richer sound to it. Not just a whiny cello, the beautiful voice of the VIOLA mmmm so nice.

Nice performance!!!

Een meesterwerk!

I like my Beethoven explosive and this performance has fireworks! Bravo!

Beethoven is young, but the music is mature Beethoven-like.

Such a wunderful piece....just discovered...

It is generally considered that the string quintets are (with the quintet with clarinet) the apex of Mozart's chamber music, while the string quartets are the apex of Beethoven's. Nevertheless, Mozart wrote many beautiful quartets, and Beethoven wrote a quintet: this one. The work is entirely worthy of Beethoven's signature. Simply, Betthoven preferred the four voices of the string quartet to express his visions. At least we have this quintet, his unique and worthy contribution to a genre which includes many masterworks.Beethoven wrote this work at his beginnings in 1801. After that, he devoted himself to the string quartet, which was probably more suitable to his inspiration. There was also the competition of the six quintets of Mozart. This quintet is a work of the young Beethoven; he cannot challenge with these works of his elder admired colleague. The only quintet with two altos which can compete with those of Mozart is probably the op. 111 of Johannes Brahms. Nevetheless, this work of the young Bethoven is firmly constructed, and has features of its own which reveal the style of Bethoven, still in formation at that time.

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A very rich sound

AHHHH THAT CELLO

Authentic Beethoven.

Great!

I love this piece it's my favorite. My schools quintet is playing it.

Such an amazing performance here; Their musical interpretation, collaboration, chemistry, and live, incorruptible energy rivals the great string quartets of our time- Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo etc. Who are these guys? Where and when are they performing next ?!

great :)

My family is playing this once prepared. Brother David,cello,Me, viola, Dad, John viola, Sister Anna, violin 2, Mother Carol, violin 1 Isn't that cool

Il secondo movimento di questo quintetto è uno dei brani più squisitamente mozartiani mai scritti da Beethoven.

questo è Beethoven! siamo come nel nucleo di una stella dove si realizzano le razioni termonucleari ........

Oh, thank you for the 1 year reply.

*Beethoven's String Quintet* Quite as profound, mysterious, glorious and probing as anything else he ever wrote - and better than most of them - or as good! There is something of Mozart's C Major Quintet there, and a lot of Haydn.

Near the end of his life Beethoven was concentrating most on the tenth symphony, Requiem, Overture, and a string quintet.

my halftime show.

10:00 EU ADORO ESSA SENSAÇÃO (ESSA ENGANAÇÃO)

credo che ci sia un altro quintetto scritto da Beethoven ( op 4). Lo puoi trovare su yt. Comunque concordo. I quartetti sono di gran lunga superiori, specie gli ultimi ma anche l'op 18 si difende bene!:)

most amazing piece of music. love the energy of the players. new to this genre any advice on similar pieces by any composer? or is beethoven simply the best?

This is the unique example of a string quintet in Beethoven's work, following the six masterpieces written by Mozart. One can generally see that Beettoven reduced the number of genres written as long as time ran. In the XXth century, Onlsow wrote a lot of quintets. thier qualiity is respectable, but the only true masterpieces are thq quintet of Schubert (for two cellos), the two by Mendelssohn and the two by Brahms.

"Discovered" this work while going through the string quartets. I'm listening to the Alban Berg Quartet for the string quartets. Is there a video by them available? (This is not a veiled criticism of this performance.)

Really young? Real young B is mature Mozart and almost dead Schubert....but pre-natal Elliot Carter. One of the best compositions of B that the concert hall has ignored. Useful to get this out there.

I haven't heard this piece in ages. Energetic early Beethoven at his best. (And tweaking the "rules", like the second theme of the first movement being in the "wrong" key -- A instead of G.) You really have to ask why this piece is not played as often as, say, the Mozart or Schubert quintets. Yeah, I know about Beethoven's quartets being the Everest of classical music and all that, but isn't there room for one more? I mean, all you gotta do is hire another violist...

Third movement = Violin Concerto?!

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There are parts of the last movement that sound very operatic. There are tremolos in the violas and cello sounding very orchestral. It almost sounds like a Rossini operatic overture. Lots of emoting with pauses and sudden fortissimos and lots of drama.

You can hear it at Jerusalem YMCA Thursday 29th August

by the way you play nice cello, sorry do not mean to insult your style it really adds the bottom wonderfully . . . just a viola lover .

Like Mozart that wrote his Quintets K 515 and K 516 after having completed the Haydn Quartetts and the Hoffmeister, Beethoven wrote this Quintet after having completed the Quartets op 18. A very interesting work, clearly influenced by the K 515 in the same Key, the structure of first movement and the melodic line of the first theme are almost similar. The greatest difference is in the final movement that is pure Beethoven. This Quintett in turn influenced the Schubert C Major's but unlike Mozart's and Beethoven's that used two violas, Schubert used two Cellos giving a darker and more dramatic tone to his music.

- Excellent sound! In some passages i might believe they're using gut strings... Also pleased to listen to other than the usual Quartets, ok, a prestigious curent of Works in Classical tradition, but i find the "one-way" preference a lot of "old-school" critics has accorded to it as a bit "prevaricative" in respect to other combinations such as this one.

Just keep the camera at the wide shot PLEASE !!

Wasn't this Rossini's favorite that time they met?

Un inusuale, sorprendente, ironico, sarcastico, Beethoven

yay our Larry rules

Two violas is always better than one

12:26-13:26

Interesting how much time the camera person spends on the cellist

I temi possono somigliare a quello che volete, è il trattamento che Beethoven ne fa a renderli tutta un'altra cosa. Stupendo quintetto. Peccato sia l'unico di Ludwig, ma già, ci sono i quartetti che non hanno pari.

10:50.

who had to put that pole in front of the 1st Violist. Wonderful performance.