Dvořák String Quartet No. 12 in F Major (I)

[onlycowardsfeardeath]

heard this preformed at a master class and fell in love with it...

[GAP120GAP]

I want op 54 no. 1 and op 54 no 5 :( but I can't find it...

[jubjub2112]

Musical perfection! I fell in love with Dvorak while living in Prague . . . and this piece . . . the American Quartet . . . has its place with the greatest of all compositions by any of the masters . . . Brilliant!

[LaraMusic10]

great cello part at 1:16-1:21

i love this piece :)

[doublabatteries]

the viola part is the best (:

[cclementi6]

haha as the video goes on the quality gets worse and worse

[Tea276]

It's good, actually it remineds me o my teacher of music! :)

[davidjb100]

Dvorak's music has such a lasting appeal to it. Almost everything that came from his pen was pure gold! Thanks for the upload.

[viola989]

too fast for my taste.

[TheStand04]

I love this music!

[quotonj]

I'm in highschool band and we're playing an arrangement for just percussion. It's a cool twist on it with the sound of marimbas, xylophones, chimes, etc. instead of strings.

[4MalletPrincess]

@quotonj Our sophomore percussion ensemble is playing that arrangement this year and I have the opportunity to conduct it! I'm very excited and nervous to see it all turn out.

[quotonj]

That's cool. Our ensemble finally finished learning the whole piece today. We still have to perfect it and actually play it full tempo though. :[

[bringrofmanyachuckle]

Is it just me, or is Dvorak's beard twitching?

[ilawlypop]

lol i see it too!

[gleedads]

Hahaha! That's hilarious! It reminds me of a Monty Python animation.

The nerd in me (never very far below the surface) has to ask whether anyone reading this knows enough about how graphics are displayed in Flash to explain why it's doing that?

[TrueTopDog321]

great

[hvllbs]

who is playing in this records? can somebody say to me?

[TurboTsunami19]

The Emerson String Quartet

[hvllbs]

thanks!

[wigwamjuice]

batman and robin hood.

[akitaliu22]

yeeeson.! well said brodaaa.

... that was awkward. sorry. :D

[Nachtmusik02]

I don't know... I like the way the Emerson quartet performed it. It might be technical, but they emphasize each part and color. I love hearing the individual parts and how they all fit together. A quartet is about unity.

[linkink825]

that was my friend too

[Zerlock1124]

you know, you can delete those comments...

[linkink825]

i'm a hobo

[linkink825]

That was my friend, not me.

[linkink825]

i am playing this for the MIC [music institute of Chicago] the academy. we are playing it like the Emerson quartet. we played it better though. we put a lot more passion into playing it. they are to technical, they need more love

[AzNsAnTaGiN]

...a percussion ensemble is playing a song written for string quartet?

How sacrilegious.

But in all seriousness, this song is a wonderful tapestry of color and emotion.

[drummerdude9944]

my high school percussion ensemble is doing this peice, it sounds very cool :]

[akitaliu22]

I am playing this piece with my quartet. It is an amazing song. Dvorak is brilliant. I love the viola solos, not only because I play the viola, but also because viola's aren't normally featured. This piece is great for all four instruments. All of the different colors of sounds makes it a gorgeous piece. I love playing it. It really makes have more of a love for music(:

[smilekaka22]

Yeah! another viola player. I love playing it too. The viola part is very interesting

[kyleclef]

yes, i also love playing the viola part in this, i think dvorak was quite generous in giving us an interesting part.

[13taylorlautnerlover]

@akitaliu22 i play viola too and i think the viola solos in this are amazing

[konnoman321]

One of the greatest string quartets of all time

[sportsfan1937]

i love this quartet. i will be performing it in feburary for a competition. its pretty hard. but AMAZING

[dagdas01]

I love this quartet. I played it at music camp over the summer, the first violin part is so much fun. The second movement is so beautiful. I have yet to play the last two movements for a performance, but I just love them all.

[joshtheviolistfromNV]

personally I think this quartet is best played by younger generations since we are more experimental with phrasing and bow techniques. The Emerson String Quartet is without a doubt the best quartet. Since they play everything so technically perfect, i believe that they loose musicality and that individuality that makes the recapitulation different than the beginning.

[joshtheviolistfromNV]

Its a great piece, and can have a lot of phrasing depending on the talent and musicality of the musicians playing the quartet, On paper this quartet looks quite easy, but getting the mood, tone colors, transitions is what make it complicated. Its a great piece and its sad that classical music is not popular amongst my generation. personally i have never been interested in the contemporary rock, heavy metal, rap. Anyone who denounces classical music is ignorant since most music came from this.

[lalobaloo]

Amen!!!!!

My thoughts put into words perfectly!

And to your other comment, I do agree somewhat. :) I'm playing this song with a quartet in my highschool (I'm the cellist) and we have SO much fun playing together, we try new stuff all the time and critique recordings and our own style and we make great music that way.

[silentsteps]

And yet people still love it.

[curlyman217]

how dare you!

[KorparnasTid]

True the Romantic style is less complex than previous styles, but I believe that that is what lends it its power. The simple melodies of the Romantic lend themselves better to expressiveness than do the polyphonic melodies of the Baroque. I enjoy playing both Romantic and Baroque pieces, but this is how I feel about the matter.

[emieldelange]

In what way is the romantic era simpler.

If anything the harmonies have become much more complex with more emotional and dissonant colouring

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

Actually, there is a lot of polyphony in romantic music. The simplest "classical" music is classical era (Haydn/Mozart etc). Bach was extremely complex, but so is Mahler and Beethoven.

[gleedads]

Generous? That seems to be selling violas short to be saying that a good part given to them is generosity. ;-)

But I agree that this movement is worth paying attention to on the merits of how fantastic a viola part it has. And there are lots of other reasons to like this movement as well.

[gypsie930]

I have to play this at a concert in a couple weeks. I play cello :)

[tchonski]

This is really beautiful.

[ValleyLane]

thx for uploading, i have this CD too.

the best version i think.

[battleblades]

Hey, saejonhshin. There is some controversy on whether this is his 12th or 6th. Don't worry-you're not wrong-but you're not right either!!!! :-)

[saejongshin]

oh, ok.

[saejongshin]

I believe this is Quartet No. 6 and not 12

[saejongshin]

Hm. No, the version I have is wrong.

[davidov1712]

This piece of music is absolutely wonderful! Bravo!!!