Parker Quartet performs Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1

[deadithink]

If you like this, listen to Hajnal, by Venetian Snares. It incorporates a lot of Bartok's work as samples.

[4099aj]

Excellence....

[studentjohn36]

Too bad the producer has allowed so much artificial reverb into the track.

[itsmedude1020]

God, they're too fucking good. They make me feel highly inferior and useless :(

[draine4]

This is amazing... Go violas!!!!

[elgatosucio]

This post is a youtube classic video already. Absolutely beautiful. I don t even know how many times I listened to it. We (millions) would like to see the complete quartet, may be the cycle. Please, play it for all of your fans....Greetings from Argentina.

[PiscaCPT]

Bravo! Cheers from Brazil

[tomatojuice12]

cellist is sick nasty!

[Nateisbored]

parts of this sound like its a classical recording being played backwards. 1:35

[52bicycles]

@Nateisbored Bartok is good like that (and so is this quartet...)

[muslit]

incoherent reading

[fartsmachine]

That was seriously so unbelievably beautiful. Holy shit. I am seriously dumbfounded. Amazing. Really. I seriously do not know what to say, amazing. I'm a Bartok fan, and after hearing this... Man, wow. Just wow.

[jastern949]

lovely! amazing music. thank you for this. (would be nice to add date of recording into the description.)

[LOTViolists]

WHOA! That's awesome!! What great choice of articulation... I played this too.

[BBRENTTAGHAPP]

brilliant! it's almost like a choreographed dance!

[Dbrazz88]

Dayum. Holla!

[cafity]

Béla Bartók's String Quartets are diabolic masterpieces of music and playing those like this, for me, it's a masterpiece itself :)

[squeaky342]

I love the cellist's expressions, he looks as if he is trying to smuggle a bottle of water past airport security. :) Excellent performance from of them, of course.

[pflypflypfly]

Well done! Better, I think, than the Emerson Quartet recording I have. I like the speed and the many small expressive touches. There's a few of awkward aspects to this Bartok piece, but you've rendered them in a natural and organic way. One of my most favorite quartet pieces, this quartet.

[totalglambert]

They came to my school...they;re even more amazing up close, friendly too :D

[Oistrakhfollower]

They are extraordiary... Wonderful

But... I can't understand why always Asian players "twist" their body as playing...

I'm Asian but I don't like to do that kind of things...

I'm a violin player. Please come to my channel and watch my playing. I play like a stone : P

[usheryel]

Fabulous playing. Dramatic performance

[elgatosucio]

Share the rest. Wonderful!

[mroyal88]

What wonderful passion the Parker play with! What clarity! I still love the Julliard Quartet recordings from the 60s, but the Parker String Quartet gives me hope for the future - Excellence will never go away!

[sayitatonta]

woooo espectacular!!!!

[kibberspiti]

BELLISSIMO

[McSplat]

Wicked violist!

[sylvia6566]

great recording.. and superb performance.... very dramatic visually too..

excellent!!!!! bravo

[drgabrielsoileau]

VERY COOL!!

[aedammairbran]

just saw them like 2 days ago! they are wonderful!!!! please keep this video forever!!! ^.^

[XcakebatterX]

just saw them Live in Duluth Minnesota tonight :) Amazing

[aedammairbran]

wonderful

[guarnerius69]

Molto bello!

specialmente i cambi di tempo, molto aderenti al testo....forse manca un po' di charme a 11 e 35.... Bravo!

[letsrockroll]

lols asians... haha jk

[SAMARCANDAS]

Extraordinario!

felicidades