Beethoven Quartet no.13 op.130, cavatina (5/8)

(for better version click "more info" below) Next part http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_L2BIjEyg (Grosse "Great" Fugue; 6th movement finale part 1) Here is, a better version--their first recording--played by the same performers, the Vegh Quartet, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC4txIY43rA




cavatina 6:22--30 love the emotional peak, although, its done better in the 1952 cycle *(the link just above this)

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[keimica]

Thanks. I wished the Vegh Quartet (whom are playing in my video) would have played it slower to savor it a little more so. But the parts they did savor, I think they (Vegh) did it better the first time; I have another version, which is thus, in my videos where you can watch it (I can't post it here), or actually I'll provide a link at the bottom in the description on This video

[carlinma]

thanks for posting! which string quartet played this?

[keimica]

@carlinma The Vegh quartet 1973. I think the 1952 recording is more precise, but Vegh can do no wrong.

[keimica]

@carlinma The Vegh Quartet

[keimica]

@lewars1912 I don't know what kind of women you know who listen to this music that then didn't like it. But it's sad if ANYONE doesn't like this music, and I don't see why you think it must be a woman thing. That's rather limiting. This was Beethoven's favorite piece, which he called "the crown jewel" and the only piece of his that made him cry. It's also on the Voyager spacecraft, (although the Budapest quartet interpretation).

[RIce2324]

Only goes to show that hearing music isn't enough. You have to feel it. Beethoven was the best at that. Probably more-so than any musician in the world.

[devynian1]

i think this song represents farewell when the put it on the voyager's gold record

[orphyborphy]

@exxcalibur1973 I had that happen with the 9th Symphony, although I was lucky to be starting university and found out exactly what I wanted to do. I'm glad I've read about your experience as well!

[exxcalibur1973]

In the words of Marliave, "the music here reaches an intensity of feeling that transcends all the agony of grief, all the depths of anguish that human grief could experience."

[exxcalibur1973]

@keimica Really, I never knew it was Beethoven's favourite piece. I don't know the musical term for what happens at 4:23 but it is the most, most , most, most amazing thing i have ever heard. I recall hearing it for the first time about 10 years ago. I quit my job and came back home to restart my life because it was as if everything i had done had led to that moment. Where do you go after this? You can't just do what you were doing. It makes no sense. It is a death and rebirth and the divine.

[shostakovich2406]

fantastic playing..

[SHINNIANLUX]

The link from QubitVector brings you to the right Tempo (and Pathos). It's really difficult to find better.

[imajeepster]

btw...this was played at Glenn Gould's memorial service in toronto...

[imajeepster]

@DoubleGauss i know, that's the saddest thing to think of...that he was never able to hear it. Sob...

[DoubleGauss]

@keimica

Beethoven never actually heard this piece himself as he was completely deaf when he composed it. So if he cried, he cried while imagining the sound in his head.