Michael Parloff: Lecture on Beethoven Quartets Op. 132, Op. 130, & the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

8 жыл бұрын

Michael Parloff provides insight into the music and background of Beethoven’s String Quartets: Op. 132 (A minor), Op. 130 (B-flat major), and the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.
Filmed live in the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio on March 15, 2016. Video produced by Trent Casey.
Chapters:
Quartet in A minor, Op. 132: 6:04
Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 135: 31:32
Grosse Fuge, Op. 133: 48:08
CMS is grateful to The Emerson String Quartet for the use of excerpts from their Deutsche Grammophon recording of the Beethoven String Quartets.
For additional information about the Beethoven String Quartets, the following resources are highly recommended:
Joseph Kerman: The Beethoven Quartets
William Kinderman: The String Quartets of Beethoven
Lewis Lockwood: Beethoven
Kurt Oppens: Kurt Oppens on Music
J. S. Shedlock, translator: Beethoven’s Letters
Maynard Solomon: Beethoven
Jan Swafford: Beethoven, Anguish and Triumph
Angus Watson: Beethoven’s Chamber Music in Context
Robert Winter (essays by Michael Steinberg): The Beethoven Quartet Companion
Video Produced by Trent Casey

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@ejb7969 2 жыл бұрын

This was so fascinating to hear that I stopped my day to finish it. Superb. Just superb. I've read a few thousand program notes (and written a couple dozen) and a few hundred essays and moe than a few dozen books about pieces of music. And viewed many videos and attended many live talks. Mr Parloff's may be the best of all of them. Or among a few of the best. What masterly delivery of such well-chosen words! What wonderful use of visuals and audio examples. Is he a master flutist? Or a master writer? Or a master speaker? He certainly puts the parler into Parloff.

@4eversearch 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely outstanding series, I keep listening to all episodes more than once with un- diminishing delight What a gift! Many thanks to Prof Parloff

@brettw173 Жыл бұрын

Listening to Beethoven at his best is like riding something wild down a steep mountain on a moon-bright night, something that loves you with all its heart and only wants you to feel the boundlessness it feels.

@christopheramrston9732 3 жыл бұрын

All of beethovens late quartets are the greatest 🎻 violin music ever composed period.

@Maldives2011ful 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining this so well. Beethovens late quartets are a world of their own. They are unsurpassed, the pinnacle of music. Pure genius.

@jamesjgregorio2622 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this. It is so helpful in understanding the quartets. The comments are so completely on the mark.

@alejandrocollrodriguez7529 4 жыл бұрын

You helped me to understand almost entirely well this riddle of work.

@mylesjordan9970 2 жыл бұрын

The “Grail” section of the Dankgesang seems related to the doctor’s canon!

@brandonterzic Жыл бұрын

"I hear now the music of the A minor quartet, the agonized flurry of the strings...a wheel of light rolling up to the precipice and over into the bottomless pit...I Beethoven, I create it, I Beethoven, I destroy it..." Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

@gerdprengel7616 Жыл бұрын

You mention that the wonderful Finale theme of op. 132 was originally considered for an instrumental finale of the 9th symphony. I found this so fascinating that I wrote a symphonic movement using these sketches from 1823 and orchestrating parts of the op. 132 finale: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eamZhc6Yv6y6kX0.html

@mylesjordan9970 2 жыл бұрын

The Cavatina’s “sobbing” first variation, with the soprano against triplet motion, seems to echo the (again) first variation in the slow movement of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet, where the same Italianate, operatic style gets used in exactly the same position. Since the dates put Schubert’s work first, by a couple of years, it seems Beethoven must have been just as conscious of Schubert’s development as Schubert was of Beethoven’s! Perhaps Schindler wasn’t quite as untrustworthy as we think.

@emilianocorradi4079 3 жыл бұрын

Just one word: Grazie!

@johncerella2127 5 жыл бұрын

Chapter: Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130: 25:48

@kevinmoore4237 8 жыл бұрын

These are fantastic - and a great companion to the Shostakovich series. Any chance of surveying Haydn or Mozart ?

@the_eternal_student Жыл бұрын

I liked the description and reference to the music as recitative. I do not like the use of the word joke in music; You did not call the musical offering a joke. Your description of Beethoven as wanting to write for two very different pieces at once was powerful; that is the future of music, and thus, science. I also think the grosse fugue is a desire to play all pitches at once and in every combination in time, but that would not sound good.