When you said this was a technical piece you weren't kidding. Unconventional time signatures, rhythms, harmonies, harmonics and oh god the double-stops. Huge props to Dover Quartet for performing it brilliantly.
Came for the meme, stayed for the music. You said it was complicated, but holy moses. The only string quartet I think I've ever sat through, enamored at every moment!
That was really good. Like, big names good. And the musicians were just incredible. I was a bit afraid that it would be more joke and less composition, but this was a very clearly a proper development of a theme and not a meme-grab. Great, great stuff.
Wow! Not only are you an eloquent, thorough, thoughtful, and wise pedagogue, but your compositions are brilliant. Thank you for sharing! I look forward to witnessing an LA-based performance of your work(s).
@@TheGlassgubben Anyone who has picked up a 'cello, well, there's all this whistful messing around in the upper reaches of the fingerboard, and then there is the grinding in the lower registers that says "I am 'cello. Fear me". I guess that's why we love the Bach Suites - because you can dig in and be unsophisticated.
This is fantastic. I love showing people your music when they say that classical music is dead. This will definitely be show to the next person who tells me that.
Dammit, David! I'm not even into classical music, but this gave me chills all throughout the performance! The resolutions (most notably the N section of Antonin's Lick), the rhythmic passages making good use of the cello range (Leos's Lick comes to mind), I think you accomplished your mission of introducing the concept of themes with memes and creatd a beautiful piece of music to go along with it!
This quartet should be mandatory listening in all middle school music classes, showing kids classical music is alive and kicking! Alive and licking, actually! I already loved your videos guiding viewers through the richness and complexity and joy of all kinds of music, but This!... This is living art at its best! And a million kudos to the Dover Quartet, who is crazy enough to nail all the licks so beautifully 🤩
Amazing piece amazing performance! I think this is the first time I've seen a score video with the performance as well and I gotta say I love the format
The first movement is one of the happiest pieces of music I've ever heard! Ingenious writing! Need to get round to watching the rest of the piece, ASAP!!!
I really love all of your videos and the pieces of yours I’ve heard. Fantastically pedagogical and always engaging from start to finish. One of the very few artists I patron. But somehow, this was the first time I realized that it’s not just a fluke. It’s not just that you’re a great composer (though of course that’s true, too, and I’m old enough to still be shocked that UA-cam can be a forum for actual quality) but that I really like your style. I was actually afraid to listen to this for fear I’d find it boring. But nope-fantastic. I’ve only listened a couple of times so far. Loved the end of 2 (R to the end). Loved the way the instruments spoke to each other and finished each other’s sentences throughout. Loved that the viola got to shine. Loved the entire last movement. But I keep finding new things to love, so... I usually don’t leave comments since I figure no one has time to read my stupid opinion, but I read that the platform counts stuff like that and I want more people to hear this. Here’s to hoping. Congratulations on another fine piece of work. And thank you!
Sometimes I watch these videos and get the impression that I am learning something, that I understand a bit but listening to this is welcome reminder of just how accomplished, creative and sophisticated a musician David is. As others have mentioned it is almost dizzying seeing how brilliant are the performers but to my naive eyes I cannot for the life of me understand how they also seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves! The whole piece is a wonderful achievement.
This music is pure perfection.... You perfectly capture the essence of what a String Quartet should be... I cannot stop listening to it. Stellar performance as well!
I played with Bryan Lee at the Toronto Summer Music Festival! They are all such amazing musicians and people. and I can't believe they're playing for David Bruce! Wonderful work everyone!
That first movement is really special - it reminds me of some of thw happiest times of my life. David has a gift for composing; an extraordinary composer!
You are that rare thing, David: someone who can talk intelligently about other people's music as well as his own and a first-rate composer in his own right. I've listened to this piece more than a dozen times now and each time something new, or quirky lovely stands out. Bravo, maestro - and those are two words I don't go bandying about too often!
I love how the theme is changed around in so many ways that you've made me almost forget that it's lick-derived by the end of the third movement, just in time for (as far as I can hear) the clearest full lick... and yet instead of (or maybe as well as) being perfect comic timing it comes across as a legitimate melody. I expected the music to be great, but I thought the contrast between the "memey-ness" of the obvious licks and the "classicalness" of the surroundings might take away from it a bit, but in the execution I think the two different aspects of it add depth in a really interesting way.
Wow I just discovered this and have been listening to it on repeat. Specifically between J and L in Mvt. 4. That melody might be one of my all time favorites. Absolutely beautiful!
Amazing piece of Music! Really helps me get out of the dumb “I should be writing more experimental and less tonal stuff” mindset. Thanks a lot! Amazing coda!!
Imagine imagining this! So many, many visions have come out of hearing this work. I love what you all have done. What a delight, phenomenal, evocative of too many adjectives and now faith, vigor restored by hearing the music, as if music of the spheres. Undying music. Medicine. The sounds of life. Thank you
This is my favorite work I have heard by this composer. While past pieces seemed to me to be dominated by rhythmic qualities, with less emphasis on melody than I hear in this work, and thus less interesting to me, this piece puts melody much more strongly at its center, and therefore I like it more. I also heard most strongly in this piece something I heard hints of in other pieces, which is an identifiable style, which I would characterize as "Demented English Squire," which of course I mean humorously, but also with serious intent. The serious side of that is that the composer brings forth what sounds to me like traditional English folk music and adds all the bustling-ness of a good modern sound with many new and hip things that pin it in our times.
Terrific work, one of the most mind-blowing string quartets I heard, for sure the best I heard in the XXI Century and a fantastic performance by those fantastic musicians. David, you're a great composer, you must never have doubt about it.
And in the end you came up with some quite charming lick themed lines. The first movement's main line keeps playing in my head. Catchy, licky & enjoyable. Congrats for the great piece. And of course to the quartet: they nailed it.
The glissandos create such a good sound when paired with the running like texture around them. Creates a super emotional and heavy melody. This was incredible especially considering the meme
Dear mister Bruce, Besides the high musical quality of your string quartet, I'm impressed that you've found a way to introduce a lot of people to contemporary classic music who normally wouldn't listen to it. I really admire your bridge-building approach in your videos. Also my compliments to the Dover Quartet. A job well done.
Okay Mr. Bruce you're just flexing aren't you, you're a very cultivated composer, beautiful piece thank you! and of course bravo on the performance all of you
Absolutely remarkable musicians. I had this tagged since it was released but I really wanted to listen to it when I had a block of unfettered time. Tonight was the night and I'm glad I didn't lose the link. Mazel Tov!
I think that pieces like these, which are both innovative and very new, but also understandable to a lot of people thanks to more "popular" influences, are the ones that are the most remembered through history. Just look at Tchaikovski's pieces, which are constructed with quite radical orchestral ideas, but on popular and very catchy themes. They made Tchaikovski a favorite for a lot of music listeners.
This is terrific! The music was joyful, fun and energetic. I enjoyed the different textures and driving rhythms, something mezmerizing about this piece. The quartet blew my mind. Wonderful performance!
Absolutely perfect, amazing coda at the end. Reminds me of your video about endings, and how it isn't "in vogue" to go out with a loud triumphant bang. Seems you ditched the "cute ending" this time and just decided to go full steam ahead. Wonderful, makes me wanna dance.
When you said this was a technical piece you weren't kidding.
Unconventional time signatures, rhythms, harmonies, harmonics and oh god the double-stops.
Huge props to Dover Quartet for performing it brilliantly.
Refreshing to see the viola getting some melody time.
@MetalBrush Oh now I want crossover.
Came for the meme, stayed for the music. You said it was complicated, but holy moses. The only string quartet I think I've ever sat through, enamored at every moment!
That was really good. Like, big names good. And the musicians were just incredible. I was a bit afraid that it would be more joke and less composition, but this was a very clearly a proper development of a theme and not a meme-grab. Great, great stuff.
14:31 I love this cats crying on the fence sound. This part tickles me delightfully. At once humorous, yet so sweet and pretty.
Wow! Not only are you an eloquent, thorough, thoughtful, and wise pedagogue, but your compositions are brilliant. Thank you for sharing! I look forward to witnessing an LA-based performance of your work(s).
Thanks a lot!
This quarted is just so much Fun - it's full of positive energy and exuberance, wonderful stuff.
the greatest jazz shitpost of all time and it isn't even jazz
It also isn't even a shitpost
That's 7:11.
Yooo that cello/viola groove at F in the fourth movement is metal as hell. Sounds like a Tool bassline lmao
Probably my own favourite bit. I think the players quite enjoyed it too! Thanks for listening.
@@DBruce, who doesn't love to play fortissimo on the c-string?
@@TheGlassgubben Anyone who has picked up a 'cello, well, there's all this whistful messing around in the upper reaches of the fingerboard, and then there is the grinding in the lower registers that says "I am 'cello. Fear me". I guess that's why we love the Bach Suites - because you can dig in and be unsophisticated.
My favourite too, maybe because it reminds me of Shostakovich, my favourite composer.
It's at 17:17 just for further reference. I love it too!
This is fantastic. I love showing people your music when they say that classical music is dead. This will definitely be show to the next person who tells me that.
God I love musictube.
I love your videos! I certainly wasn’t expecting you here.
Dammit, David! I'm not even into classical music, but this gave me chills all throughout the performance! The resolutions (most notably the N section of Antonin's Lick), the rhythmic passages making good use of the cello range (Leos's Lick comes to mind), I think you accomplished your mission of introducing the concept of themes with memes and creatd a beautiful piece of music to go along with it!
This quartet should be mandatory listening in all middle school music classes, showing kids classical music is alive and kicking! Alive and licking, actually! I already loved your videos guiding viewers through the richness and complexity and joy of all kinds of music, but This!... This is living art at its best! And a million kudos to the Dover Quartet, who is crazy enough to nail all the licks so beautifully 🤩
Probably the first piece of contemporary classical music I've enjoyed and will listen to willingly in the future.. Amazing work!
You ought to listen to more! There's plenty great stuff being written, you just have to look for it.
Brilliant, really really enjoyed it.EXCITINGLY TONAL!
That Indian flute gliss style is amazing! Great effect!
Absolutely riveting! This is surely going to become a part of the canon string quartet repertoire in no time at all. Bravo, David!
Brilliant quartet, David! Love the folky character to it.
Amazing piece amazing performance! I think this is the first time I've seen a score video with the performance as well and I gotta say I love the format
Beautiful composition! Well done! The first movement sparked some Aaron Copland vibes for me which I really enjoyed.
The first movement is one of the happiest pieces of music I've ever heard! Ingenious writing! Need to get round to watching the rest of the piece, ASAP!!!
Months later, that ending is still amazingly satisfying.
I really love all of your videos and the pieces of yours I’ve heard. Fantastically pedagogical and always engaging from start to finish. One of the very few artists I patron. But somehow, this was the first time I realized that it’s not just a fluke. It’s not just that you’re a great composer (though of course that’s true, too, and I’m old enough to still be shocked that UA-cam can be a forum for actual quality) but that I really like your style. I was actually afraid to listen to this for fear I’d find it boring. But nope-fantastic.
I’ve only listened a couple of times so far. Loved the end of 2 (R to the end). Loved the way the instruments spoke to each other and finished each other’s sentences throughout. Loved that the viola got to shine. Loved the entire last movement. But I keep finding new things to love, so...
I usually don’t leave comments since I figure no one has time to read my stupid opinion, but I read that the platform counts stuff like that and I want more people to hear this. Here’s to hoping. Congratulations on another fine piece of work. And thank you!
Sometimes I watch these videos and get the impression that I am learning something, that I understand a bit but listening to this is welcome reminder of just how accomplished, creative and sophisticated a musician David is. As others have mentioned it is almost dizzying seeing how brilliant are the performers but to my naive eyes I cannot for the life of me understand how they also seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves! The whole piece is a wonderful achievement.
This music is pure perfection.... You perfectly capture the essence of what a String Quartet should be... I cannot stop listening to it. Stellar performance as well!
It seems the Dover Quarter enjoyed playing this as much as I enjoyed listening to it. Bravo to you all.
Great great Janacek finale, I love it. Wonderfull work !
You, Mr Bruce, are doing so much for music and musicians. This is an astounding piece. And what great performers.
Wow this quartet is amazing... And the performers are so great too! Thank you for sharing
This has wonderfully, loping, lolloping feel to it. That the musicians are not wearing Neelyesque t-shirts is the only disappointment:
The first movement is exquisite. I can't stop replaying it. Thanks and congratulations, David.
I played with Bryan Lee at the Toronto Summer Music Festival! They are all such amazing musicians and people. and I can't believe they're playing for David Bruce! Wonderful work everyone!
Amazing work!
I have now lost count of how many times I've listened to this -- it has a tremendous relistenableness and I have shared it a bit, too.
I AM ABSOLUTELY IN AWE OF THESE PIECES AND PERFORMERS. BRAVO!!!!!!!
Beautiful performance of a thoroughly enjoyable quartet. I love the Haydnesque humor displayed throughout. Just a cracking good bit of fun!
That first movement is really special - it reminds me of some of thw happiest times of my life. David has a gift for composing; an extraordinary composer!
This entire work is absolutely jaw dropping, but the ending from 20:14 onward is f***ing _majestic._
From composer to composer, this is FANTASTIC.
Increíble. You manage to create amazing music even while doing weirdly complex technical stuff and it doesn't feel forced.
You are that rare thing, David: someone who can talk intelligently about other people's music as well as his own and a first-rate composer in his own right. I've listened to this piece more than a dozen times now and each time something new, or quirky lovely stands out. Bravo, maestro - and those are two words I don't go bandying about too often!
I love how the theme is changed around in so many ways that you've made me almost forget that it's lick-derived by the end of the third movement, just in time for (as far as I can hear) the clearest full lick... and yet instead of (or maybe as well as) being perfect comic timing it comes across as a legitimate melody. I expected the music to be great, but I thought the contrast between the "memey-ness" of the obvious licks and the "classicalness" of the surroundings might take away from it a bit, but in the execution I think the two different aspects of it add depth in a really interesting way.
Love that you approach this meme with enough care to make a piece of music out of it that’s unironically beautiful and enjoyable
Wow I just discovered this and have been listening to it on repeat. Specifically between J and L in Mvt. 4. That melody might be one of my all time favorites. Absolutely beautiful!
Amazing piece of Music! Really helps me get out of the dumb “I should be writing more experimental and less tonal stuff” mindset. Thanks a lot!
Amazing coda!!
Imagine imagining this! So many, many visions have come out of hearing this work. I love what you all have done. What a delight, phenomenal, evocative of too many adjectives and now faith, vigor restored by hearing the music, as if music of the spheres. Undying music. Medicine. The sounds of life. Thank you
Beautifuly written and perfectly executed. Thanks David & Dover Quartet.
This is my favorite work I have heard by this composer. While past pieces seemed to me to be dominated by rhythmic qualities, with less emphasis on melody than I hear in this work, and thus less interesting to me, this piece puts melody much more strongly at its center, and therefore I like it more. I also heard most strongly in this piece something I heard hints of in other pieces, which is an identifiable style, which I would characterize as "Demented English Squire," which of course I mean humorously, but also with serious intent. The serious side of that is that the composer brings forth what sounds to me like traditional English folk music and adds all the bustling-ness of a good modern sound with many new and hip things that pin it in our times.
Wow this is so amazing, thank you for uploading this for free and it's also so awesome to watch with the score going along!!
Thank you! Absolutely enchanting.
Terrific work, one of the most mind-blowing string quartets I heard, for sure the best I heard in the XXI Century and a fantastic performance by those fantastic musicians. David, you're a great composer, you must never have doubt about it.
The calm musicality of the bald cello player is great
Bravissimo !!! Astonishingly great performance and brilliant composition. Thank you for this experience.
This was an incredibly moving performance. My heartfelt gratitude to all of you for sharing with us.
When the meme becomes a dream. Actually mind blowing how good this is.
A masterpiece Maestro Bruce.
Take that one Simon Fransman. These guys played the lick, and it was glorious.
that last section of the fourth movement with the chords in the faster tempo is just yes in every way. yes.
This was so much fun to listen to! Just delightful! Thank you so much for sharing it.
And in the end you came up with some quite charming lick themed lines. The first movement's main line keeps playing in my head. Catchy, licky & enjoyable. Congrats for the great piece. And of course to the quartet: they nailed it.
14:31
Cats, the Licc Musical
This whole piece was phonemically written and performed. Love it!
What an incredible piece, the percussiveness mixed with the open harmony is such a great way to use the string quartet.
The glissandos create such a good sound when paired with the running like texture around them. Creates a super emotional and heavy melody. This was incredible especially considering the meme
Beautiful composition and excellent performance. Very inspiring and fresh! Thank you.
Incredible performance of a fantastic piece! The interplay between the voices was masterfully done.
It's... just... great! Thank you for sharing your voice: it's so fun to listen
Tasteful, palatable serious contemporary music... what could be better! 🤗
I wonder what 22nd-century musicologists would think of this piece...
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I never thought that the lick would be able to make me cry. :D
I've been listening to this a lot on Spotify. Incredibly stimulating piece!
What a great stage to play on! The musicians are stunning just as the piece.
Dear mister Bruce,
Besides the high musical quality of your string quartet, I'm impressed that you've found a way to introduce a lot of people to contemporary classic music who normally wouldn't listen to it. I really admire your bridge-building approach in your videos. Also my compliments to the Dover Quartet. A job well done.
Okay Mr. Bruce you're just flexing aren't you, you're a very cultivated composer, beautiful piece thank you! and of course bravo on the performance all of you
Absolutely remarkable musicians.
I had this tagged since it was released but I really wanted to listen to it when I had a block of unfettered time. Tonight was the night and I'm glad I didn't lose the link. Mazel Tov!
Nice to see all the concepts from the videos in action here! Also, there were wonderful rhythms!
Such a perfect balance between comedy and drama ! Beauteous musicians !
Excellent!
There you have it ladies and gentlemen!! *DAVID BRUCE HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!!!* I live!!!
Great stuff, David. Love your music!
These are my favorite pieces of yours from now on, amazing really!
Wow what a great piece. I love the ending. Like an explosion of joy. Beautiful.
This is just AMAZING. MIND-BLOWING. Loved every single moment of it.
Wow! I was incredibly sceptical about this, even after you posted excerpts, but it's superb. Thanks.
There is no hiding place in a String Quartet is there David? And you "licked" it!
One of your most inventive compositions to date.
Wonderful! This should be on spotify so i can add it to a playlist
Im writing a french essay due tomorrow and this helped me soo much to focus on my writing !thank you!!
I listen to modern classical music so little, and I think that's a diamond :-0
Youthfull and zesty. Perfect for the concept of this composition. Very enjoyable from beginning to end.
The last movement is definitely my favorite, had me on the edge of my seat!
I think that pieces like these, which are both innovative and very new, but also understandable to a lot of people thanks to more "popular" influences, are the ones that are the most remembered through history. Just look at Tchaikovski's pieces, which are constructed with quite radical orchestral ideas, but on popular and very catchy themes. They made Tchaikovski a favorite for a lot of music listeners.
Fantastic work as usual. Someday will you let me analyze one of your pieces on my channel?
Thanks Richard! I'd be honoured!
Haunting. I'll have the lick going around in my head for days now!
This is terrific! The music was joyful, fun and energetic. I enjoyed the different textures and driving rhythms, something mezmerizing about this piece. The quartet blew my mind. Wonderful performance!
Absolutely perfect, amazing coda at the end. Reminds me of your video about endings, and how it isn't "in vogue" to go out with a loud triumphant bang. Seems you ditched the "cute ending" this time and just decided to go full steam ahead. Wonderful, makes me wanna dance.
You have officially created some of my favourite pieces of music.
Dude this piece is fenomenal! A masterful composition and outstanding music notation! Thanks very much for sharing, very inspiring! Very enjoyable.
This is great! This needs to be on Spotify!
My fav movement is no 1. Something about the main melody and mood just feels right to me. Awesome stuff, this really inspires me.
Fantastic! Far exceeded my expectations. Get these folks to a recording studio ASAP!
Such a great piece, awesome work David