Tokyo String Quartet playing "Razumovsky"

[gbolivares1]

music forever.

[gbolivares1]

é isso aí. garotos expertos. amo os quartetos. ainda sao o futuro.

[Jinglebell1011]

Best fucking stumble ever! Jesus christ this is amazing!

[MrUtanosuke]

like a huge wave flooding to me !

[giacomowes]

sapevo che l'avresti pubblicato tu!!!!

[maisqpoesia9999lcg]

Brilliant!!!

[k73f]

Tokyo quartet is my favorite and the best in the world <3

[bobbertq]

I bough@cobaltjones I bought the complete Beethoven Late Quartets thanks to this comment and this video.

[pugay69]

is it me or is the recording quality here terrible? great performance

[mrggrmkng]

@pugay69

It is the recording quality. Just heard this on my car radio, and it was AMAZING! Hadn't heard a Razumovsky in way too long. And the Tokyo is just extraordinary. This transmission only gives you a hint of how good they are. Like your car radio is going out of a broadcast area.

[luigiciotoli]

è pura verità: dopo averli ascoltati, per la prima volta, a salerno, per 2 giorni ho camminato a 20 cm dal suolo; per circa una settimana una diagnosi di un cancro non avrebbe minimamente scalfito il mio stato di esaltazione.

[lilhu33]

what's that instrument playing in the background between 0:15 and 0:30 ?

the one making the low sounds

[flammesombres]

uhm, cello?

[nikresflodur]

@lilhu33 Hello: I believe that is the cello. The baritone of the strings.

[bleedinblue2007]

they did a master class at our school last fall and I got a chance to play Beaver's Strad. ALL their strads are aazing and brilliantly toned

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Thank you so much for sharing this..it is wonderful! Wish I could have been there!

[PoNcHx818]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooo!!!!

i am deffffffffffffffffffffffffff!!­!!!!!!

[k73f]

clive greensmith is amazing!

i got his autograph when he came to my city!

i love tokyo string quartet! deffinetly one of the best!

[jaschenski]

He was a year below me at college - very nice chap and played the Rococo Variations note-perfect with a college orchestra.

[Fallansig]

Too fast.

[ochiro1979]

Well, technique is there, but after Budapest string quartet's interpretation of this piece, this one just doesn't do it. It's a bit too fast, just by a few milliseconds but enough to miss the most important notes.

[AmateurViolinist]

The play the Razumovsky quartets brilliantly, but I've never heard them playing the late quartets. I'd love to hear that, and I wonder how it'd sound.

[cobaltjones]

I own the complete Beethoven Late Quartets by them. Whatever you do, acquire it. They make a magnificent sound. Their playing is equal to the summit of western civilization that describes the quartets. You can't listen to Bartok or Shostakovich without hearing Beethoven's LQs, which he said were written for a future civilization(I still don't think it's arrived).

[TheDon444]

@cobaltjones Yes, I found that CD set in the local library, Wow they make a terrific noise don't they!! Apparently, Schubert upon hearing this said something like "after this, what is there left to write?" Something tells me he was right.

[XxSifrxX]

wow.

no wonder the Stradivari's are worth so much,

The sound is simply beautiful.

[Dominicpiano]

how fast is that!!

[cyvue]

I hear the viola is a huge 17"...that's what she said...

[claviolino]

who's SHE??

[joshtheviolistfromNV]

I play on 17 inch, its not huge

[cyvue]

Little Japanese man playing a big viola. It's huge, that's what she said... :D

[astrogeek15]

@cyvue hahaha I don't think he got the joke :( haha

[yotubby123]

@cyvue my conductor at camp plays a 19 inch viola :)

[S1ndar]

If I am not greatly mistaken, the members of this quartet play with Stradivari instruments (The famous 4 instruments N.Paganini had in his own private collection)

[claviolino]

exactly!!the whole quartet uses stradivari instruments!!i had the chance to listen to them (live) and the sound was really amazing!!!bye

[wutuworry]

chyea! i just came back from a concert like an hour ago...they were do bomb.

btw they perform on the "paganini quartet", stradivarius instruments which paganini aquired and played them during the 19th cent. they r on loan fronm the nippon music foundation. =D just a few facts

[kelseymusik]

They do play on the Paganini Strads, although I know Mr. Beaver's instrument needed some serious repairs done, and it was being worked on overseas for a while. And "cyvue", Mr. Isomura's viola is not 17". It is very beautiful, though. These guys are great - genuinely good human beings, and super talented to boot!