Turtle Island String Quartet ---- Quarteto de cordas

[johnwiiero]

1:55 Inspector Gadget!! LOL

[ThorOdinson14]

@johnwiiero A lot of it seems fit for Warner Bro's 'Toons.

[beatrixsnapefan]

This is so great!! Loved this interpretation of Bach! And I totally agree with you @recessiondrug !

[cosmos680]

the music is great, full stop. Oustanding work guys !!

[TomKaren1994]

I got to spend about 15 minutes talking to David B and the others last year after a concert at a small PA college. There were about 70 people there on a rainy night, and I was the only one to stay after to meet the guys. They are all personable, polite, kind-hearted fellows. Their playing has mesmerized me for a number of years now, and I hope they go on playing for many years.

[gigibaiao]

Todos fantasticos. Ate a musica classica teve mais tempero. Adorei.

FANTASTIC. Congratulations.

gigi

[LordPirani]

Fucking awesome!!! The performance of the violist is so cool!!! Hahahahaha

[terrixturmoil]

interesting

[BiJiKURDiii]

?sesd

[tchuman]

If Bach had been born 50 years ago, this would not be a quartet, would be a Quintet... Thank you for sharing

[cachurra68]

ufff exelent!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andyfirthjazz]

Fantastic stuff!!!

[PiotrJandula]

Dany, YOU ROCK!

[wilkiemart]

have the members in the group changed? im just getting into these guys, but it seems like there are different members in the videos im watching. they are great by the way!

[cs1017]

@wilkiemart yeah, it's they're 25th anniversary this year, the original lead violinist and violist have left the group, but the new guys are just as awesome haha

[Es102794]

Mike's a really cool guy!

[ttryl09]

me gusta mucho!

[cirecsc]

1:20 ....it's wonderfull!!!

es la caña--w--

[knck91]

that violin really knows how to dig in. and mark summers is amazing, as always! god, i wish i could play the cello like him.

[Nin10DohAnimal]

i thought that was the violist

[1976DSCH]

TRES fantastique! Est chouette! Grr!+-

[Beeffyviolin]

There are parts that sound like inspector gadget!

[kyleclef]

hears to the viola player! but nonetheless, an amazing quartet!

[lllCarreralll]

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! L o v e it

[singuralka]

How COOL! AMAZING!

[gusti1021]

these guys sound great, very nice!

[MARUXIVIOLA]

QUE BUENO EL TIO DE LA VIOLA!!JAJA

[gnufanclub]

If yuo apreciate this kind of sound try some GnuQuartet video!

[loeloemk]

just did this in orchestra. =p nice song.

[syren345]

dude I'm in high school and playing this. Nice waste of time playing an easy piece...

[pelletencate]

Yeah well dude, if you think this (and any other music) by bach is easy to play just because the notes are manageble, I'm terribly sorry but you completely missed the point of Bach-music. At the Royal Conservatory The Hague Bach is considered one of the most hard-to-play composers around.

[bananapark14]

omg! we just played this for honors orchestra! wow! they sound really cool :)

[laureljaclyn]

I just played this for All-state Orchestra. This is so amazing AND fun to play!!! ; )

[OrchDork500]

so freakin'cool.

[telodire]

watch the Alter Quintet !!!!

[rebelbaroque]

Danny Seidenberg ROCKS on viola! (And to think he once played baroque viola back in the day....

[OrchDork500]

really?idk that

[pelletencate]

It's not in his BIO (you can take a look at his website)... But guess what? He wrote this nice and funky arrangement himself. Well done!

[Estringman]

This is awesome. Just four guys having fun on stage.

[friendlybarman]

this is music!!

[nkwanno]

なんという音楽力・・・

中堅の映画音楽家より少々劣るほどあるぞ・・・

[pelletencate]

Oh yeah, I totally agree.

[llieske]

too choppy and upbeat for my taste in bach.. they transformed something hypnotically beautiful into an overdone comedy routine

[pelletencate]

I have to disagree with you. Of course the "hypnotic beauty" is gone with this performance, and normally covering Bach in such a way is 'not done' in my opinion, but in this particular performance I really like the sound that these people can give it by applying their musical intelligence in such a way that a very swinging, jazzy piece comes out. I respect your opinion (and partly share it, people shouldn't touch Bach) but I just can't call this just a 'comedy routine'.

[md11crj700]

@pelletencate Why not touch Bach? I say, why let music go unchanged for a hundred or so years? Play with it! Change it up! Have fun! Is having fun not the point of playing music? Well, thats my opinion.

[sean4730]

@md11crj700 Having fun is one of the many "points" of playing music, which this group does very well.

[recessiondrug]

@pelletencate: Why shouldn't people touch Bach? He is not some sacred figure, he composed music. Why not leave it open to interpretation after centuries of music developments? Why should we hear Bach the same exact way over and over again?

[sunnyuri]

They are very good! I love how everyone is enjoying each other playing the music :]

[bigbuck025]

i didn't know bob sagat played bass??!!

[llieske]

he also plays a mean rusty trombone!

[violadude]

you also didn't know that the cello is not a bass

[George8696]

I appreciate that use of "bass" is confusing.  In baroque times, the cello was the bass. If the orchestra had a contrabass, it doubled the cellos and octave lower, hence the term "double bass" for the big bass violin. The big bass is much stronger than the cello as the bass instrument, but, as in a string quartet, the cello serves the bass function and can sing as well.

[pelletencate]

Well, if we look at the jazz-scene, it is kind of unusual though to use a cello as a bass instrument in a. These guys however do exactly know how to do this, and I think that makes it really cool. What people might not realize is that the violins normally play higher parts than for instance a saxophone, which makes it more suitable for a cello player to "play the bass".

[pelletencate]

The term 'bass' is used widely in (and before) the baroque music, far before the double bass existed. It originates from the same roots as the word 'base' does, and it means 'basic part'. It used to be written with chord-numberings very often (which maked it a 'basso continuo', a numbered bass) so it could be played on a harpsichord. A double bass is called 'double' because it actually does not play the notes that are written in its part, but it plays them one octave lower.

[galtomi3]

They are completely crazy!Fantastic!

[tarantel2072]

TISQ had early CDs on Windham Hills. ONe with CHANDOS and recently with TELARC

[earthboundcruiser]

These guys are fantastic. They bring life back to classical. They seem to love the music so much, they play with all the heart of a Jazz quartet. I imagine back in the day these instruments were played with passion unike the stiff orchestral renditions we hear today. These guys play the way I've always imagined it should be played!!!! I love the music. I keep one of their disks between my favourite Led Zepellin live album and my fave Keith Jarret album.

[melpost]

Absolutely Mental!!!!! I Love It!!!!!!!!

[SambaDisaWinner]

just awesome!!!!!!!!!

[bransonguitar]

Cool! Jazz musicians playing Bach. By the way, you can't write something like that on paper - it's jazz!

[meadhbhboyd]

they're actually classical musicians by trade, but very very adaptable to many genres...they write alot of music aswel....you can buy their scores online I think....just google TISQ, and check their webpage. M

[Omega1988]

actually, the system we have today of the written music is very bad if we compare it to how the music shall sound. if you listen to a recording, you can hear that they never play exactly as written. that will mean that if you write jazz on paper, you have to know the rythms and phrasing as well as any other genre of classical music. So that means that you can't actually write any type of music on paper!!!

[physphilmusic]

@Omega1988 Wow, what an insightful relation. We can't actually write any type of music on paper!!!!!

Don't you realize that one of the main reasons Western classical music came to dominate the world (yes, including most popular forms of music today came from that paradigm) was that we could put it down on paper, however imperfect? What we have now is already quite an accomplishment, compared to many other cultures who never thought properly of making their music a bit more "scholarly".

[benediktethyssen]

Where can you get the music. I would like to play it.

[tarantel2072]

Some of the early ones had been arranged for school orchestra. Try Sharmusic.

[willbaseball86]

That's awesome. Is that song on a cd of TISQ's?

[meadhbhboyd]

Yep, its on 'The Hamburg Concert CD'

24 hours of Bach!!!wow!!! where?when?!

[willbaseball86]

Great. Thanks.