Webern Langsamer Satz

[vincenzomilletari]

meraviglioso...



[billinrio]

Its amusing that so many people who comment on YouTube choose call any music, whether sung or not, a "song". I wonder why?

Anyway, this is a fine post-romantic work. For the record, Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) dates from 1905 Webern intended to write an entire quartet but put it aside after completing this one movement.

Schoenberg was among Webern's teachers, and this work reminds me of a similar, also tonal work by Shoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (or Transfigured Night).

[kyliekinz]

I really enjoy this song. We are playing it for All-City this year. It is so hard to play! I love how Webern wrote this song for his cousin, whom he fell in love with a church camp. :)

[mgerakos]

Almost sounds like Tchaikovsky in spots...

[bubblybassoonist]

I just listened to this because I am expected to perform it in a month. I've always seen the names Berg, Shoenberg and Webern and avoided them because of the dreadful stuff we had to study... but this is quite lovely!

I look forward to meeting the other players and re-creating it.

[schwarzkavalier]

It's sound like beethovenian strings quartet,is it?

[1violaplayr]

No, it's Anton Webern's Langsamer Satz. The opening is strongly reminiscent of the beginning of Beethoven's quartet No. 4, Op. 18, but the rest is quite different.

[leveli2]

pretty cool....the fact that there's no video bugs me.

[deadcalledpark]

wonderful

[CrystalFlames]

This is beautiful. I really like it. (I keep confusing Weber and Webern though.)

[CaptainBluebear08]

@CrystalFlames

rofl

[franzliszt370]

It's amazing to hear how accessible Webern truly is - and not just in this beautiful quartet. Stuff like the Piano Variations always gets me both intellectually *and* emotionally. The modernist answer to Mozart, I would say.

[teagueqc]

@franzliszt370 An excellent point, if I may say so. Webern has a lot in common with Mozart, particularly in the fact that both men were lyrical, primarily vocal composers. You can hear this even in their instrumental music, as here.

[ruitye75ir94444]

I can't get enough of Webern as a serial composer, but his tonal music was so good. He easilly could have been just as famous without composing with Schoenberg's methods.

[p0lyph0ny]

I agree. He was a musician first and foremost -- serialism was just how he choose to accomplish his musical goals.

[smotheredflame]

Thanks, I should have known there was no director...but still, thanks. I've never heard of the Carmina String quartet, maybe I'll have to look them up. :)

-Leira

[ricecreamdude]

BRAVO!!!

I am currently playing this in my orchestra, and this performance serves as my inspiration.

[kruggerbit10]

Same here, hi-five! *slap

[smotheredflame]

AWESOME!!! You don't know how long I have been looking for a recording of this! Very nice! Now, was this a quartet? Who was playing this? Do you know who the director was?

Thank you SO MUCH! I might actually be able to play the ending right by tuesdays seating test!

-Leira

[ricecreamdude]

Hmm... Yes, a quartet.  It's the Carmina String quartet playing. Because it's a quartet, no director.