Harlan Brothers/Emerson String Quartet - Michael Lawrence Films Bach Project

[tejaK]

Great job, Harlan!:) Congratulations to Michael Lawrence and to everyone involved for making this beauty.

[hitmenrev]

does anyone know what piece is being played?

[bchill69]

@hitmenrev --these are selections from "the art of fugue", bach's last set of compositions. It was published in "open score", but people argue that it is a keyboard piece. Even so, it has been played in many arrangements (and it works).

[clovismcpony]

Excellent. Can't wait to see the whole thing.

[anisometropie]

They could have choose a better performance than this one from the emerson quartet

[ComeLeVent]

Yes, of course his music is fractal. It's imitative counterpoint, repeating patterns, inverted, agumented or diminished, characeristic rhythms.

It's good he noticed it.

[kammermusiken]

Is it Shostakovitch ? OMG this to me sounds totally out of place. I got used to almost no vibrato and they play it like Hungarian Dances. There are in fact many young quartets meanwhile who proof to have more taste than this.

[urrduhdur]

Harlan!!  Video is great man, you killed it. hope all is well my friend. Timmy

[diastrachan]

Loved it! can't wait for the whole documentary.

[boydaaron]

Yishu, That is his Zygmuntowicz, but not the one that was written about in the book. This is Gene's second Zygmuntowicz, and it should look like a Strad because it is a copy of a 1732 Strad.

[stradivari08]

Anybody knows if Eugene Drucker used his Sam Zygmuntowich violin or the Strad in this clip?

That fiddle doesn't look like Strad anyway ~

Thanks for uploading this clip!

Cheers,

Yishu from Taipei

[dylana77]

Harlan, this is fantastic!