Witold Lutosławski - String Quartet - I. Introductory Movement

[armygreen314]

This piece relies so strongly on the textural quality of the music... this has no aesthetic value beyond the frosting on the cake.

[AfroDeezeeYak]

@armygreen314 Frosting is the best part of the cake, my friend =)

[claraclaralgo]

reminds me of movies...

[duckshroom]

Wow.

[fredericfranc]

If he is tempted to sneak some "ad libitum" into this, it does not show much, the movement is awfully solid and convincing. If the painting is by Pollock, who famously pissed onto his "drip" paintings, it sort of fits, the pissing did not mess up the paintings, and maybe helped a bit.

[theshitaIker]

@fredericfranc

Did he really now? That makes me want to take the Prius, drive down to the National Gallery of Art in DC, and lick "Lavender Mist".

[SuperTetrahedron]

@fredericfranc In order to get the ad libitum You need to listen other performance, each one will have a different duration in each espisode, It exist one cell that unit the four instruments in order to finish and begginign another episode, the rest all is ad libitum.

[fredericfranc]

@SuperTetrahedron ...appreciate the explanation even if it is somewhat unclear: how many movements does the work have?, do all the movements have provisions for ad libitum?, and does specifically this movement have it?, presumably yes...anyway, from my point of view, this movement sounds like it has no ad libitum at all, so if it actually does, the composer disguises this rather well, which means he is a rather good composer, right?

[SuperTetrahedron]

@fredericfranc The work was concived in two main movements, the first introductory, loosely episodic, and the second is culmulative and climatic, the episodes of the first movement are connected by a motif consting with the pithc C, that helps the instrumentalist to unit, You can listen to this motif on the minute 3.04 of this video and the same motif is epeated 9 times during the first movement. The idea of L. was to creat an sculture made by water, where the form exist but in movement.

[SuperTetrahedron]

@fredericfranc The work was concived in two main movements, the first introductory and episodic, and the second culmitative and climatic. The episodes of the first movement are connected by one motif that is repeated 9 times with the pitch C, You can listen to this motif on the minute 3:04 of this video. L was inspired by sculture in this work, and his idea was to created an sculture of water, where the form is concived but always in movement

[fredericfranc]

@SuperTetrahedron ...your reference to liquid sculpture makes me think again of Mr.Pollock, who did use, well, "liquid sculpture" as a kind of a device, a means to "execute" the painting reproduced here...it all hangs together, and "hangs" is the word...