Quatuor Capet - Lucien Capet

Joseph Gingold:
"My connection with Lucien Capet began in Brussels in 1928 when I attended a string quartet concert given by the Capet String Quartet that was the greatest string quartet concert I heard in my lifetime. The program was all Beethoven: Op.18, no. 1; Op. 59, no. 2, and Op. 131. It has never been duplicated in all of these years..."
http://www.capetmusic.com/foreword.htm

Lucien Capet a étudie au Conservatoire de Paris. Entre 1896 et 1899, il est violon solo de l'orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux ; il enseigne le violon au Conservatoire Sainte Cécile de Bordeaux (1899-1903).

En 1904, il fonde le célèbre Quatuor Capet dont il est le 1er violon et qui se fait entendre avec succès en France et à l'étranger. Surtout, il est spécialise dans l'exécution des derniers quatuors de Beethoven.

Ses œuvres
* Le Rouet, poème symphonique,
* Prélude religieux pour orchestre,
* Devant la mer pour voix et orchestre,
* Poème pour violon et orchestre,
* 5 quatuors à cordes,
* 2 sonates pour violon et piano,
* 6 études pour violon.

Ses écrits
* La Technique supérieure de l'archet où abondent les exemples et les détails (Paris, 1916),
* Les 17 Quatuors de Beethoven,
* Espérances, ouvrage philosophique.

extrait de Beethoven op. 131 6. et 7. mouv. ...

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[ooaaeerr]

Fascinating glimpse into the nature of a very characterful quartet. Do you know if any film of the Busch Quartet exists? Thanks much.

[poldi24]

Thanx, I never heard about one! :-(

[weenpeen6]

YES! Thank you so much! This is, honestly, one of my favorite peices of all time! There's just so much emotion in it. IT's so underappreciated, too. I can hardly find any versions of this on the internet. Thank you for posting this!

[poldi24]

Thanks! Unfortunately the whole piece is much to long for a youtube-video. :-(

[Pianowrestler]

Thanks for posting my favorite string quartet, opus 131. It's a good and interesting performance, but I still think that the rendering by the Quartetto Italiano is unsurpassed!

[poldi24]

Thanks for your commentary. One has not to forget, that this is from a record 78 r.p.m. without any possibility to cut!

[vnikosv]

At last we meet

[Pepperpiperwdiamonds]

below all speech, below all time, suffering, moving outward backward and forward, to go beyond every circumstance, to perceive the value and beauty of life, the terrible value of man. Anyway I'm sorry for taking up so much space. And mr. Poldi24. Thank you very much.

[Pepperpiperwdiamonds]

e this time. It's the greatest thing I know of in all art. His attempt to create a totality of all existence. Existence poised through different worlds, to show the solidarity, the manifest connectedness of every moment. To show everything at once. The value of this moment and the next one, everything at once, to show us...And to think he made this in his sickness in the squalor of a room. That he reached for a love and a freedom, to speak to man, through pain, of the universe bound in love.

[Pepperpiperwdiamonds]

As if he had a vision of the unity of all existence. Absolute freedom and absolute necessity. The unity of all texture and all color. Think of the fugue that ushered in this quartet. A vision of ultimate order. Think of how all the multivarious techniques fall in on each other. How the very last seconds of this piece could be the very beginning. He's showing us multidimensional time. He's struggling to go beyond even music. To show a kind of world beyond the temporal, beyond time, existing besid

[Pepperpiperwdiamonds]

I'm not sure what your saying is comprehensible to me. You say he exhausts and confuses theme with no connection and no discernible mood or sequence. You say they represent a state of inner confusion and loss of order. Yet the themes have the most magical unity imaginable. It as if any note could fall into any other note. They are all developed one substance. They all exist simultaneously. They are not incomplete. They have a completeness not of this world. It's as if he was poised in eternity,

[vstasov]

Breathtaking. Thank you.

[mlunapiena01]

I've never heard this particular piece before, but this is such a ... living ... recording. Very cool to stumble across. Thanks for sharing.

[cchamp27]

I love hearing this style of playing so much (Fritz Kresiler especially). My former violin teacher complained to me a couple times how modern violin playing "has become antiseptic". I can only agree with him as I progress more in my playing and experience. Recordings like these make me melt, thinking of a time I didn't even know, but when expression and feeling were absolutely paramount.

[dxxn]

the portamento instantly transport me to a time that no longer exists. There is a unique tone to Capet's bowing: he plays harmonics and tones that only he and Flesch knew how to achieve through bow vibrato. Ensemble work is outstanding.

[richardyingren]

Good stuff, as an uneducated tho very interested layman I really do enjoy this, more human feeling than many other recordings of B. quartets on youtube can boast of. I love the old recordings.