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

[danceonspirits]

The music swells and crests like the moon's pull on the ocean and just so as our hearts are tugged in ways that catch our breath, that make us sigh slowly with longing, with a love so deep that sometimes words can't express a thing. Our bodies just respond. 

[iCapax]

Haunting. It sends chills through me.

[meirelles94]

Why doesn't this have at least 1,000,000+ views?

[PhysiqueQuantique]

3:52

[coeurmusique]

Tellement beau...l'émotion qui passe est tout simplement énorme.

[KittyRue9]

This piece is heaven

[creativeflowsuite]

I LOVE THIS SONGGGGGGGG

it is so melancholic yet intense at the same time

[ilarianda]

questo quartetto è una capolavoro assoluto!! grazie a dvorak per avercelo lasciato!!

[RomRonin]

Outstanding recording... i was speachless when i first heard it

[punainenpaholainen]

The nickname of this beautiful piece of art is misleading indeed. During his few years' stay in America, Dvorák was very homesick. This is obvious, listening to his music from this period. The characteristic melodic passages, singing in thirds, the pentatonic scale - all very typical to the Bohemian music he grew up with. He must have found it comforting and professionally interesting, though, to find some of these features in e.g. Native American music. But American - no. Bohemian, it is.

[capaden]

Amazing, thanks.

[Sckarecrow92]

Thank you for posting this.

[feebewho]

I never get tired of this!

[violalord1]

Sweet use of African American hymnal there. Read a little of his bio.

[smartgirl131]

-_-,

[colinrb13]

Can someone tell me why to cello's melody is notated in treble clef in the score. I have the International Music publication.

[zoopercooper]

Would you honestly rather count through two octaves' worth of ledger lines?

The alternative would be to use 8va and 15va notation, but that's problematic for many players who don't find their notes by first thinking, "Which letter name does this pitch have?"

[colinrb13]

But in all recordings and performances I've heard (including this one) the cello plays an octave lower than notated. Those notes would fit perfectly in bass clef and would require no transposition.

[gleedads]

Really? I don't think it's an octave down in this recording, though I don't have the sheet music in front of me. The passage I was just listening to sounds like about 7-9th position on the A string, which puts it well into the treble clef and way too high to read in bass clef.

[RomRonin]

@gleedads the pasage you are reffering is at 2:45-3:15 if i'm not mistaking... yes it is way to high for bass or tenor clef and is still on octave lower. I tryed to play it once as it is written and my bow got highjacked by my left arm ;) And all solos are written in treble clef. Which brings me to my dilema... all the treble clefs in the whole quartet are played an octave lower. Migth it be the editors mistake or Dvorak's?

[volk410]

@RomRonin I'm a cellist, and we're playing this quartet now in our group. In my Simrock edition, the treble clef passages should be played down an octave, so the very highest note in this movement, the G that comes five measures before rehearsal 4, is one octave above 4th position 4th finger G. Reading down an octave is typical of earlier composers (e.g., Beethoven); more modern music -- 20th & 21st century -- is usually notated at pitch. Dvořák uses the "old school" method. :-)

[Cellist2727]

@colinrb13 I just picked this up and am playing this as a cellist in a quartet, and thought I'd check a recording. A rule of thumb when reading for cello is that all treble clef passages are read an octave lower than notated. It's probably in treble clef to limit the ledger lines in either bass or tenor clef. Beautiful recording though, this piece astounds me.

[prayformercy4]

my favorite string quartet

[violist95]

I just love this piece. Its so peaceful and sad. That cello.....beautiful. Brings me joy.

[inthecresents]

this dude knew strings, his life must have some major sad, i'm hearing lost love.

[kramison]

Simply beautiful...brings tears to my eyes.

[colinrb13]

Why so many thumbs down in this one?

[prayformercy4]

Pablissimo2001: i think u mean he incorporated african american elements into his music and not meaning him being literally, "black"

[jing2468]

I love Emerson's interpretation in this movement. Such beautiful contrast to the strident tone in mvmt 1.

[gawgul]

My goodness, what a great rendition --the whole quartet is on fire. 4:25 was really fantastic. Intonation here separates the proverbial men from the boys.

[IFulcrum]

I love the gypsy sounding phrase used at 0:30

This piece is so beautiful

[smilekaka22]

Wonderful! It's hard to reach the correct expression needed in its interpretation. The four players have to be so *together*. Beautiful interpretation from the Emerson string quartet.

[plottierl]

the Cello in this second movement makes this movement the most beautiful of the string quartet n° 12

[fcofelixx]

exquisito

[pouipouit]

magnifique

[rxlgh72]

What a fabulous performance by the Emerson String Quartet. I wonder if Dvorak could have imagined such an extraordinary rendition of his work; I doubt that he ever heard anything like it.

[MadameFantome]

This is the most beautiful of all Dvorak's pieces! It bring tears to my eyes when I hear it. So bittersweet and wonderful...it's indescribable. More moving than Mozart and more romantic than Chopin. This man was a genius!

[malma3]

this man was normal man with talent from Bohemia(Czech rep)

[levapk]

Beautiful.

[anna68487]

Wunderschön!