Schubert - Death and the Maiden (part 3)

[Eppo194]

I cannot find words to express my feelings when I hear this music and her interpretation.

[newyorkmusic72]

Auch... my heart.

[williamguey]

Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaat

[Itisnanful]

I think even the lighting effects are not necessary. I damnly love this episode.

[geuskensss]

This is so hauntingly beautiful. I can't believe there are people in this world who can dislike this.

[violiner9391]

i love how the viola is lit up last XD

[rusko33]

this is a perfect example of why lyrics are unnecessary.

[LucieEverglad]

who are the musicians playing here?! I love their interpretation

[berrik500]

Sometimes it does me think of Beethovens allegretto symphony 7, but Schubert is the better composer. What a great music!

[warandcheese]

@berrik500 not many musicians would agree.......i do. for me schubert is the greater also.

[netguider]

This has always by my favorite Tokyo Strings recording... but I this one is every bit as good.... Just marvelous... I'm going to download these and piece them into on video.... amazing talent... and of course.... wonderfully written...

Randy

[bobbiandbogie]

Magnificent ensemble

[HerlockSholmes123]

There's some truly fascinating use of counterpoint in this piece.

[szulmiki]

Schubert was a Genius

I Love it, especially when it comes to 3:28 of this movement

[damian19880422]

ach... the best piece for me...

[damian19880422]

ach... the best piece for me...

[sweatinggrundle]

lol at the lighting at the beginning

[Sage80]

why would you split this up?

[bagomu18]

directly into the heart

[violaloveviolin]

There are no words that are good enough to discribe this wonderful piece!

[Rogli]

The 2nd movement is the reason this quartet is called 'Der Tot und das Mädchen'(Death and the maiden) since the theme is taken from the lied with that name.

[AugustusAurelianus1]

@fredjmp - thanks my friend - SUBLIME!

[swingfromtrees]

This song is so beautiful it hurts.

[youmakemydreams]

Oh my gosh i love this!!! Fantastic!!! One sugestion? Faster on the second half? Makes it sound a little happier i think! But just personal taste! GREAT JOB!

[whythewar1]

@youmakemydreams Happier? 

[pleasantblue]

Full of beauty.

Absolutely love the melody.

[alfa00718]

verry nice

[vittyx90]

non ho parole....troppo bello

[Edithcia]

un movimiento que explota de manera extraordinaria los recursos instrumentales y de sonoridad extrema

[yeliao]

This is a very beautiful and at times very moving piece of music. Typically Schubert. I attended a live performance of this quartet a few years ago, which was also my first encounter with this piece, and this movement really moved me.

Nice video, excellent musicians and performance.

[Skal59]

Dommage que le violon ne soit pas juste.

[jesuswolfi]

l'un de mes morceaux préférés

[easystar5446]

i love the key change in this part

its lovely

[kurgyisa]

so beautiful

[tedgoh]

i like the lights

[roditlite]

amazing.

[pligana]

it's wonderful!!

[matelue]

-Ist das Schubert?

Nein, jemand von einem Preisauschreiben.

-Ach!

[ubergoo]

GOOSEBUMPS

[beethomozart]

a group of variations from the own author's theme from the lied Der Tod und das Mädchen, composed in 1817 according to a poem by Mathias Claudius, a really beautiful piece of music as only Schubert knew how to do for this genre, the quartet

[jurassic1917]

2.05 and forward - it cannot be better than that. Or can it? Anything? Let me know!

[ticklepint]

jurassic1917

Different certainly. Try 'Knoxville, Summer of 1915' Samuel Barber, Leontine Price.

[jurassic1917]

Thank you - I will absolutely listen to it! Thanks again!

[SqueekyMonkey101]

extremely moving

[englishrose47]

Sends shivers down my spine!

[Scray1702]

Although it is written in major, still it sounds sad and hopeless...

[chili90]

wtf you dumbass, this movement is g minor

[howdilydoodily]

Schubert's D664, D780 2nd & 6th mvts, D795 final song, D959 4th mvt, D960 1st, 2nd & 4th mvts all are in the major key but display heart-wrenching pain. In fact, his true transcendental sorrow comes from moments in the "major" key, which only he could emulate.

But all of this is besides the point. Your disgusting arrogance at a simple mistake another made shows that you miss the entire point of Schubert's pure beauty in his music: love more powerful than you'll ever understand.

[davidoistrakh]

BEST RECORDING EVER!!!

[fratolo]

Es la parte 3 porque las partes 3 y 4 corresponden al segundo movimiento y la persona que lo bajô se disculpô de los cortes y todo (debido a la informâtica). Asi que no hay necesidad de insultar.

[TerialBacti]

Nadie ha pedido que respondas mi opinión veterano entrometido.

[Superbicoa]

Great !

[charlus03]

Entire life of an human being... in five minutes.

[knilsop]

@charlus03 no

[aquablossom2000]

@charlus03 I totally agree!! This song brings put sopme much truthful drama from a human's life. My favorite song.. ahhh

[soldemedianoche1997]

@charlus03 Exactly :)

[oneworldbibo]

waw

[vonspre]

These curses, these blasphemies, these moans,

These ecstasies, these tears, these cries of "Te Deum"

Are an echo reiterated in a thousand mazes;

It is for mortal hearts a divine opium!

For truly, O Lord, what better testimony

Can we give to our dignity

Than this burning sob that rolls from age to age

And comes to die on the shore of Your eternity?

[hannaclay]

I was first flute in my school's band atm (1986), and I had chosen this song for our spring concert. Mind you, this was the year of Challenger, and Chernobyl (and plenty of things falling apart in my life). When we were done, the entire audience was in tears.

It's not that it is meant to be a funeral song...more that it's to display the mourning in one's soul...for all that's been lost. Whether life, loved ones, the soul's true desire...it's about loss...though they play the center too fast.

[longtalker]

I agree with what you said about generalising the idea of 'grief' in music - I myself almost feel I am trivialising music when I let particular unfortunate events in my life take the 'credit' for when a music such as this touches me. It is a different - non-destructive - type of melancholy that [instrumental classical] music induces, and it is just a subrange on the very wide spectrum of emotions that music can bring to us.

[vonspre]

it's better to say, "I'm suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly." (W. H. Auden)

[longtalker]

The way they gradually shone the light on each quartet member on stage added so much to the mood that this wonderful music transmits. I normally don't appreciate 'modern' effects added to the playing of classical music, but after all it's all about inducing emotions, and this lighting effect I find to be very inspired. Thank you very much for posting this.

[jezjizi]

I don't always appreciate "special effects" either. But you're entirely right about the light. The close up of the strings is also good. Thanks, Oxy!

[englishrose47]

Truly exquisite. Sends shivers down my spine!

[ErikLithander]

It´s so lovely.I used it at my funeral.

/Erik

[abdousmie]

this is the most beautiful melodie i ever hear

[twistandfeelonebliss]

this movement gives me goosebumps

[cherrymangocitrus]

Whats with the lighting- a bit bizarre but neverless the music was absolutely great. ALthough I'm 17 I do agree with phlegmuffin, when i die I want this movement played at my funeral

[munkybrain]

well I want somone i can trust enough to decide what to play at my funeral. and then i'll say to them in answer to the question ' what do you want played at your funeral?', 'surprise me!'.

get it? it's funny cause i'll be dead and incapable of experiencing surprise

[munkybrain]

haha just laghing at my own stupid joke. it is funny to me

[billythekid20]

really? have not you listened to the Chaconne?:p

[munkybrain]

Oh my goodness, Schubert. You poor creature.

[AcantiladoM]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh one of the most beautiful slow movements of Schubert's work

[dildommmaster]

Beautyfull

[shearmanny]

The second part of this movement is divine. The pizzicato that ends each phrase is truly a proof a Schubert's genius.

[MelenaVII]

I was a cellist in a quartet that was going to play this, and then we didn't, so I recorded over myself a few times and had the quartet with all the parts played by cello. It was even more gorgeous than this. [I love the cello.]

[dopestr33t]

If that`s true then will you please post it? :)

[pappestiel]

i played this movement some months ago.very impressionant,to see the beyonds of this composition.

very good work of schubert

[dedalus1917]

I don't want a funeral, I want to hear this melody die before

[phlegmuffin]

I want this movement played at my funeral.

[ClassicA111]

Oh no!!! You should be worried about where you will be after death, now what will be playes at your funeral!

[Angayasse]

Though i have selected another artwork (I en svart kiste) fr this purpose, i totally agree, this is perfect for a funeral, if I can say so...wonderful and full of feelings.

[phlegmuffin]

Perhaps it's a bit too appropriate for a funeral. Maybe I want something a bit more outlandish to better fit my character. I need to find some death-metal/arabic/polka/funk/­ragtime/techno/bluegrass/maria­chi music to successfully freak out all of my friends and relatives. Hopefully it'd be a traumatic enough experience for all of them to forget everything about me and get on with their lives without having to mourn my passing.

[Angayasse]

I understand. I en svart kiste goes somewhat along that way...I guess Satyricon would freak out all my relatives:)

[AvyScottandFlower]

bwa-hahahahahaha

[grobota]

My absolute favourite from Schubert. Melancholy becomes me