Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor (I)

[TrippyMcgee22]

my favorite part: 4:28 - 4:40

[musicman9584]

yay violas! :D

[itsmedude1020]

Excellent.

[Claire720]

I love it!! I love the St. Petersburg String Quartet recording personally! Boris kicks the viola parts ass!

[helloslinkyfish]

playing this in school. and it is so.  emotional. and beautiful. and ahhhh. wow. every chord...lovely. perfect.

[mattkim824]

gosh, all of u, why are u listening to this if u just want to talk about whether or not Smaetana was gay????????

[calebcoker]

who cares if he's gay. i'm gay but idc if he is. great piece. viola shines.

[muesk3]

That first chord always gets me. :)

[somestupidviolinist]

@jeffersontool you must not be using the correct technique then.

[manses]

Simple and amazing at the same time.

[SlipknotBullet93]

I wish I could play like that lol... I love the Violists' articulation though

[kingleoric100]

this piece is great theres not maney pieces with viola solo wich makes this peice special

[ununhexium]

one of the best quartets of all time.

[feebewho]

great viola solo!!!

[Matr64]

poor you, you wont be able to listen to this masterpiece :(

[georgirella]

just prodijious!!!

[violiner9391]

I love how half of the coments on this video are arguments about the gay community. besides that the viola is incredibly strong in this piece. What a superb performance

[violist95]

Wow! That viola in the beginning starts the piece off amazingly! Wonderful!

[fdmianhansen]

Go join a gay/anti-gay chatroom...... You just about ruined my experience listening to one of my favorite chamber music pieces. You truly should feel ashamed of yourselves!

[TroutedProductions]

Fuck you

[fdmianhansen]

original---and yet........ Psycho-spiritual-social-cultur­al-package-of-protoplasms would come up with better.

[UliJovran]

@fdmianhansen I totally agree with you... I just don't know what kind of 'sofisticated people' come here to talk about the private life of the others, disregarding this wonderful artistic and human experience. Great, emotional piece!

[jcool250]

Gays love to claim everyone it's ridiculous. They just need to do research.

[violagirl610]

The viola in the beginning is magnificent.

[julianjr924]

amazing. thoroughly amazing

[stmaurmusic]

Thank you for posting this. The second subject of this movement goes straight to the heart. All the sadder for being in the major, I feel, like a Schubert theme.

[JSkaarud]

In fact, this quartet was composed in E-minor beacuse of his tinnitus that was buzzing in an E.

[Vexalicious8]

I just got back from a concert where this movement was performed. It's incredible how much emotion is packed into it - such a powerful and stirring piece.

[ivancheviolin]

people, he was not a gay , i lived in Czech Republic for 7 years, in the capital,Prague, studied in the Prague's conservatory, and i know hes not gay. and even more - in the score of this quartet it says : The third movimient - largo sustenuto is dedicated to his idyllic love - a young lady, which later became his spouse.

[colinrb13]

How does you living in Prague make it impossible that Smetana was gay?

[m3divh]

Smetana wasnt Gay you idiot! Not only he had womens... And according to this fact he wass blamed to have gonorrhoea from prostitutes, on which he died latter on... IDIOT!

[colinrb13]

I'm not arguing either side. I'm making the point that just because someone lived in Prague doesn't give them more authority over the rest of us.

[Skatedrum]

smetana means sour cream in russian

[juufa72]

and in Polish.

[allegrettus]

ok, it's time for Madonna to listen to such music, ok?!

[Thalia1110]

This os such a beautiful song.Its so imtense and passoniate. I looked up at Smetana was gay.

[dagdas01]

Tchaikovsky was homosexual too...makes me love him ten times more XD

But all that aside, I have never heard of this composer...and I really like this quartet.

[fagottist]

how can you not have heard of Smetana?

[OrchDork500]

me too

[carbonbrush1]

Was he? Don't you say! I am Czech (and lesbian:) myself, but I've never heard that Smetana was gay, quite on the contrary. I mean, he was married and known to have mistress as well.

[mbenoni7]

Now now, don't let the facts get in the way.

[Thalia1110]

This os such a beautiful song.Its so imtense and passoniate. I looked up at Smetana was gay.

[xaviere89]

This quartet sounds amazing!!!!

[ValleyLane]

who is the group playing in here?

[silentsteps]

Moyzes Quartet is playing here; I'll add that to the "about" section.

[Sahasahara]

nice post thanks

[sarahwaffle]

i didn't particularly like their phrasing. better than ours though.