Schubert - String Quintet in C Major (part 4 )

[withaminutetogo]

Too fast in the adagio sections. It is marked adagio after all.

[cellospot]

Mahler and Bruckner are hardly mediocre. They just built themselves upon the backs of giants.

[gangst5aaaaa]

i like when schubert hyde's his loftiness

[beethomozart]

great job by this quintett performing another superb chamber work written by one of the 3 greatest austrian composers, the other 2, of course Mozart and Haydn!

[ukartist]

lol i guess Bruckner and Mahler are mediocre :/

[beethomozart]

saying Mozart, Haydn and Schubert are the 3 greatest austrian composers ever doesn´t mean Mahler and Bruckner are mediocre, to my opinion these last two are just lower in category as compared with the 3 giants!

[papagenort]

Don't forget the immigrants Beethoven and Brahms. True Austrians, when they came to their peak.

[HuggumsMcgehee]

That modulation back to the middle sections key at the end: priceless.

[gdsvalentine]

Simply beautiful.

[willb48]

Brilliant. Tbanks for posting this, and the other parts. An overwhelming experience.

[jhonwica]

me saben decir quienes son los interpretes?

[zoddelnoddel]

This music neither brings forth god nor is it somehow transcendent. We don't need god anymore, because we have Schubert.

Schubert shows us the bright (and the dark) side of the human spirit. Nothing more and nothing less...

[vonspre]

Creo que este quinteto,junto con los quintetos k515,en la misma tonalidad de Do Mayor, y el K516 de Mozart, son las obras más bellas,perfectas, intensas (a veces casi insoportables), y profundas de toda la historia de la música de camara, muy por encima de cualquier otra obra de Haydn,Beethoven (a pesar de su impresionante Gran Fuga)o quien sea...

[vlann88]

Is there any one have heard the Borodin quartet play this piece, I only have in audio. It is transcendence. Wish I could see they perform. I agree with you: kgskang, on 04:05, the oddly hurried change the lauguage in the phrase. But still,

Love the video. thank you for sharing!!!

[VeniVidi]

Marvellous

[PIANORANGER]

Middle section is tough at speed, but overall, very playable...and to be able to recreate those glorious harmonies, crying violin and overall sense of peace, is one of the reasons we musicians exist. Some musician said.."I have no problem believing in a higher power. Schubert's Op 163 Adagio is its proof"

( Explanation of my handle (Ranger OP 111)

I was an Army Ranger for 20 years, I carried and played the Beethoven Piano Sonatas.

[PIANORANGER]

1 Adagio and Scherzo from the String quintet in C major, opus 163, D. 956 : for piano / Schubert ; [arranged for piano in the style of a Schubert piano sonata by] Kenneth Cooper. Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. 2006

Library Location: 'Main 7th floor Call Number: M38 .S38 D. 956 2006 Status

[kgskaug]

Always enjoyable! But, the hysterical middle segment (start of this clip) is too slow, the triplets by Vln2/Viola seem to be fighting some unbearable friction... the violence and despair that I'm accustomed to from Vln1/Cello 1 therefore cannot take flight. At the return to "tempo I" (04:05), they are oddly hurried, almost faster than the middle part, and too "restless" for my liking. This ending would be a meditative, introvert "hymnal" in my book, here is a completely different "vision".

[toshigretchen]

Great music and smashing performance! Thanks for your posting such a outstanding playing....

[amichus]

Truly, one of the greatest things ever composed - the essence of tragedy. While composing it in September 1828, Schubert must have felt imminent death.

[MySerpentine]

I should have said for that matter Albert Einstein, because our worship of science has brought forth many horrors, while this brings forth transcendence, this brings forth (for lack of a term less freighted with bigotry and superstition) God. Thanks again for posting it in its entirety.

[MySerpentine]

Do we even know where Schubert is buried? I know that he died in complete poverty and obscurity, and when I think about all the adulation bestowed upon somebody like Mick Jagger, or for that matter Julius Caesar, the contrast truly appalls. Schubert was sublime.

[AdmiralTegetthoff]

In Vienna. First at Währing cemetery next to Beethoven. 1888 both were moved to Zentralfriedhof near Strauss and Brahms.

[cfwpiano]

You may be thinking of Mozart, who died in obscurity and was buried in a paupers grave, IIRC without a coffin and next to many other people. I'm not sure if they're truly identified his actual burial location.

[patvd95]

Used in HBO's 'Conspiracy' - adaptation of the Wannsee Conf (Final Solution). The adagio is chilling.

[Soulill0quy]

great decision to cut this movement beginning at this section. it's such a heart wrenching part!