Schubert String Quintet in C II Adagio Part 2

Played by the Emerson String Quartet and Mstislav Rostropovich

Part 2 of 2

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[DarthCormac]

I'm not a music theorist, just an average Joe who likes Schubert, so forgive my clumsy interpretation. I've been listening to this song for years, and I've always felt the most beautiful part of this piece can be found from 3:40 onwards. It reminds me of the gentle cuddling after sex, when lust has been expelled from the body, and what remains is the intensity of true, tender, soft love. The "swirling" of the cello notes at 3:44, especially, brings tears to my eyes every time. This is true art.

[darthdidious]

@DarthCormac

That's rather...specific. I don't know if I'd describe it in those terms, but I suppose they get at something about the piece. After the tumultuous F minor middle section (into which we had been wrenched from the first section's tranquil E major), we return to E major with a varied reprise of the first section. One cannot help but hear this music in light of what has just transpired--perhaps as a refuge from whatever threat the middle section is supposed to represent.

[darthdidious]

@DarthCormac

But the reference to the key of the middle section in the movement's closing measures suggests that all is not well.

[douglasbenicio2010]

where is the part 3?

[darthdidious]

@douglasbenicio2010

This is the movement in its entirety.

[olga2809]

I think something like 'brilliant' suits better than 'sentimental shit' when speaking of Schubert!

[davidalexander99]

yes, "the adagio will rip your heart out"....followed by "I never understood why they card so much for Schubert sentimental shit" spoken by Eichman, a truly terrible man

[emmadazz]

@DarthCormac Lust is not Love

[orphyborphy]

I can't believe it took me this long to hear this. Oh Schubert!

[larssondj]

Thank you, darthdidious, for posting this beautiful recording of this beautiful piece of work. I have read that Schubert wrote this two months before he died, and that it wasn't performed publicly until 28 years after he died. So he never heard it - at least outside of his head - while he lived. Yet tens of thousands are listening to this more than a century and a half later. Who says we can't influence the universe from beyond the grave?

[cissou357]

la seule œuvre humaine qui puisse me faire croire au paradis !!!

[portgeoff]

It is so beautiful that I want to write it into a song. There are so many great male groups who could justify this with the addition of Vittorio Grigolo as first tenor.

'ears61' please note the spelling of heights.

[portgeoff]

It is so beautiful that I want to write it into a song.

'ears61' please note the spelling of heights.

[sorim1967]

@ears61 Absolutely -of all civilisation and for a while to come; good luck to any musician who will ever seek to aspire to these hieghts.