Schumann said that this quartet and Op. 131 have a "grandeur which no words can express. They seem to me to stand on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by human art and imagination."
The Late Quartets are amongst the best music. I just can't imagine how much Beethoven would've accomplished in his music if he lived for a few more years. His music would've been eternal.
My gosh, Stephen Tenenbaum's playing is astonishing! The clarity of rhythm, timing, and sound--and on such an enormous instrument! It's really moving and inspiring. I loved this performance--there may have been moments of questionable intonation, spotty shifting, and balance issues, but it is so easy to ignore them in light of so much sublime playing! Thank you for making it possible to enjoy such beautiful music here in UA-cam!
Learning to play the violin has made me appreciate the skill of the musicians as much as the genius of Beethoven. Honestly, how do they move their hands so fast!
After the great culmination of those two massive monuments, the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, starting with this quartet Beethoven shows he is not done, not done by a long shot.
The camera often cuts away from the whole quartet at the very moment I'd like to watch their interaction with each other and the music. Otherwise....pure joy! Thanks.
I just heard this piece played by another group last night in Boston. I always like to come to UA-cam and hear other musicians play what I just heard in a music hall. Deeply enjoyable.
Beethoven's string quartets need the extreme perfection in concept understanding and performing... i have been listening studying them since my childhood... but i am still yet to climb one step of Beethoven ladder...and this Orion performance has a very special place in the Beethoven performers repertoire as good as i have ever heard other best performing.. good thank you
This is such a nice comment on not only the music here but on your love for Beethoven proven by your willingness to continue in your studies. Keep going on up that ladder Jason. It's well worth it.
its not 'Orion' at all, the finale really falls apart towards the end - messy and under-rehearsed, little attempt to grasp the ebs and flows of this masterpiece - compare it with the Italian Quartet and this falls sadly short
How do I give this 10,000 likes?!! Some of the best quartet playing I've heard in YEARS! To me they play in an "older" style that reminds me of the great quartets I grew up listening to. And I LIKE it!!
We heard the Julliard String Quartet (as then constituted) about 25 years ago do the cycle of Beethoven quartets in Chicago. Five concerts spread throughout the winter. Every second was sublime but I still recall the thrill I felt at the opening bars of op 127.
Along with the encyclopedia of emotions in this quartet as well others of the "Late Quartets", there is a wonderful singing line throughout much of the music which always holds me bound to it as if it were the of thickest cords. Bravo for the "cords". Bravo for Beethoven!
This is the first of the quartets of the "thrird manner". In fact, it is a transition work: it has nothing of the revolutionzary concept of the 13th quartet. It is a very beautiful classically built work. .
@@yowzephyr Yes, read his comment just now; not sure what he means by "this acoustic; I've never seen that word used as a noun, nor in my years at the New England Conservatory in Boston, ever heard it used that way.
l. Maestoso - Allegro ll. Adgaio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Andante con moto - Adagio molto espresivo - Tempo 1 lll. Scherzando Vivace lV. Allegro Comodo (Rondo)
"Frantic: wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion. "synonyms: panic-stricken, panicky, beside oneself, at one's wits' end, distraught, overwrought, worked up, agitated, distressed; conducted in a hurried, excited, and chaotic way, typically because of the need to act quickly." I listened to the Busch Quartett's op. 127. It was quite legato, very controlled, often slower than the Orion performance. I loved it, but the word "frantic" simply is not apt for either the Busch or Orion performances. The Busch, in fact, is often ethereal, heavenly, which is almost the opposite of frantic! Thanks for demanding that I listen to the Busch. I loved it. I think you and I just disagree on the proper descriptive word.
No , Paul , the word is not unappropriate . But you are right in the sense of the visible , apparent manner of playing . apparently , when you listen to the tempo , the Busch are quite easy .... but , in reality , in the inner phrasing , there is an incredible emergency , an anguish , and yes , a panic , in front of the darkest questions which are coming in this dangerous score .... Busch is exactly the opposite of being "esthetic" . The four guys are playing as their last hour would have come . They are completely beside theirselves . And this element is precisely making the incommensurable value of their moment . Orion is just playing "bourgeois" . No inspiration , no fear , no lust or desire of nothing . Flat . They just do not know WHAT they are playing .
Playing beside theirselves doesn't implie automatically that the playing can be qualified as frantic, with panic and fear.... If I play something that is traducing tenderness or soul recovery for example, it is not correct to play it with panic and fear despite playing it "beside myself" would still be fantastic ! Thus, I don't see the point of playing all music with fear and panic and I don't see how it is to know the piece to play like that when the piece is NOT about fear and panic. And for me and many others, Op. 127 is clearly not a frantic piece (Op 95 is) so there's nothing good in paying it with agitated tone or fear...
Interspersing,when i play anything, I grimace. like a dawg shitting a peach pit. I like peaches and dogs. just not aware,never had any formal training. but jezze, when playing, you look like grim death warmed over. not aware.Guess it's just something people do.. thanks.
En lo particular a mi no me gustó la interpretación. No están sincronizados y se evidencias muchos errores del primer violín. Para evidencias de la falta de calidad interpretativa, comparar con los ejecutantes que anexo. La diferencia es del cielo a la tierra. ua-cam.com/video/PzKobNEvrVY/v-deo.html
seems like a performance devoid of any refinement or flair, 2 qualities I think you need in this piece, obviously they do a good job but don't have any kind of penetration in my opinion, sorry
Beethoven's last quartets are among the greatest creations of the human mind .
Schumann said that this quartet and Op. 131 have a "grandeur which no words can express. They seem to me to stand on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by human art and imagination."
Beethoven's Quartets are among the greatest creations of the human mind.
I corrected your sentence. Thank me later.
The Late Quartets are amongst the best music. I just can't imagine how much Beethoven would've accomplished in his music if he lived for a few more years. His music would've been eternal.
His Quartets are amongst the best music*.
I corrected your sentence. Thank me later.
I. Maestoso - Allegro 0:08
II. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile 7:37
III. Scherzando vivace 23:55
IV. Allegro 31:27
To the top with you!
In my version, the Adagio is the third movement and the Scherzando is the second.
My gosh, Stephen Tenenbaum's playing is astonishing! The clarity of rhythm, timing, and sound--and on such an enormous instrument! It's really moving and inspiring. I loved this performance--there may have been moments of questionable intonation, spotty shifting, and balance issues, but it is so easy to ignore them in light of so much sublime playing! Thank you for making it possible to enjoy such beautiful music here in UA-cam!
Very precise and at the same time beautiful performance with relatively fast tempi. Thanks for the unitary upload!
Learning to play the violin has made me appreciate the skill of the musicians as much as the genius of Beethoven. Honestly, how do they move their hands so fast!
That smile at 12:54 is really inspirational and shows how emmersed this quartet is in their music!
After the great culmination of those two massive monuments, the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, starting with this quartet Beethoven shows he is not done, not done by a long shot.
The camera often cuts away from the whole quartet at the very moment I'd like to watch their interaction with each other and the music. Otherwise....pure joy! Thanks.
I just heard this piece played by another group last night in Boston. I always like to come to UA-cam and hear other musicians play what I just heard in a music hall. Deeply enjoyable.
Greatest quartet alive today, thank you for sharing
Beethoven's string quartets need the extreme perfection in concept understanding and performing... i have been listening studying them since my childhood... but i am still yet to climb one step of Beethoven ladder...and this Orion performance has a very special place in the Beethoven performers repertoire as good as i have ever heard other best performing.. good thank you
This is such a nice comment on not only the music here but on your love for Beethoven proven by your willingness to continue in your studies. Keep going on up that ladder Jason. It's well worth it.
its not 'Orion' at all, the finale really falls apart towards the end - messy and under-rehearsed, little attempt to grasp the ebs and flows of this masterpiece - compare it with the Italian Quartet and this falls sadly short
Beautiful interpretation! Very nice quartet! Bravo!
Sehr präzise und zugleich wunderschöne Aufführung mit relativ schnellen Tempi. Danke fürs einteilige Hochladen!
Loved it!
The Orion is the greatest string quartet active today. Steve Tenenbom draws a sound of preternatural magnificence from his viola.
Gran Beethoven, sus cuartetos tardíos son la gloria.
Muchas gracias por compartir esta bella interpretación de uno de los más emotivos cuartetos de Beethoven.
Thanks Fallout 4!!
How do I give this 10,000 likes?!! Some of the best quartet playing I've heard in YEARS! To me they play in an "older" style that reminds me of the great quartets I grew up listening to. And I LIKE it!!
By far, my preferred string quartet
Simplemente Fantastico!!!!!
We heard the Julliard String Quartet (as then constituted) about 25 years ago do the cycle of Beethoven quartets in Chicago. Five concerts spread throughout the winter. Every second was sublime but I still recall the thrill I felt at the opening bars of op 127.
Along with the encyclopedia of emotions in this quartet as well others of the "Late Quartets", there is a wonderful singing line throughout much of the music which always holds me bound to it as if it were the of thickest cords. Bravo for the "cords". Bravo for Beethoven!
El stacatto de la viola en el 2do mov es de lo más Beethoveniano que puede escucharse en un cuarteto. Viva Beethoven! And Obbey thoven!!
sincere human breath & circulation
Sublime.
wizdom comes with age.... sublime
perfomance
This is the first of the quartets of the "thrird manner". In fact, it is a transition work: it has nothing of the revolutionzary concept of the 13th quartet. It is a very beautiful classically built work. .
Not really. Though the conventional 4 movements in the conventional order, it is also revolutionary.
Tremendous performance.
Wait. Did you see what chrish12345 said?
@@yowzephyr Yes, read his comment just now; not sure what he means by "this acoustic; I've never seen that word used as a noun, nor in my years at the New England Conservatory in Boston, ever heard it used that way.
Le problème avec les enregistrements "live" est que tout se remarque... entre autres les petits problèmes de justesse. ;-)
Love the hashtag #obeythoven
NPR's performance today brought me here
Part 2 15:41
l. Maestoso - Allegro
ll. Adgaio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Andante con moto - Adagio molto espresivo - Tempo 1
lll. Scherzando Vivace
lV. Allegro Comodo (Rondo)
aniMIDIfy score at 23:55
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this acoustic may be ok for Haydn but far too dry for this music
1+
tea
Yes
0:07
I must say, with the deepest apology, that I prefer the performance of Alban Berg's string quartet. No regrets. Anton
And just listen to the playing of this same Op. 127 with the marvelous Belcea quartet!
Удивительно сухое исполнение, хотя и очень точное... даже слишком.... это же всё таки Музыка... а не Алгебра!
Sorry: OBEY THOVEN!!
Not bad , but too "mainstream sleeping manner " . . . . listen to the Busch Quartett , guys ! Be fanatic , and frantic !
Hmmm. Not in this quartet. Op. 127 is not a frantic quartet.
YES IT IS . If this music is not frantic , then NOTHING is frantic .
Listen to the Busch Quartett , and Then , THEN ONLY , say your opinion .
"Frantic:
wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion.
"synonyms: panic-stricken, panicky, beside oneself, at one's wits' end, distraught, overwrought, worked up, agitated, distressed;
conducted in a hurried, excited, and chaotic way, typically because of the need to act quickly."
I listened to the Busch Quartett's op. 127. It was quite legato, very controlled, often slower than the Orion performance. I loved it, but the word "frantic" simply is not apt for either the Busch or Orion performances. The Busch, in fact, is often ethereal, heavenly, which is almost the opposite of frantic!
Thanks for demanding that I listen to the Busch. I loved it. I think you and I just disagree on the proper descriptive word.
No , Paul , the word is not unappropriate . But you are right in the sense of the visible , apparent manner of playing . apparently , when you listen to the tempo , the Busch are quite easy .... but , in reality , in the inner phrasing , there is an incredible emergency , an anguish , and yes , a panic , in front of the darkest questions which are coming in this dangerous score ....
Busch is exactly the opposite of being "esthetic" .
The four guys are playing as their last hour would have come . They are completely beside theirselves . And this element is precisely making the incommensurable value of their moment .
Orion is just playing "bourgeois" . No inspiration , no fear , no lust or desire of nothing . Flat .
They just do not know WHAT they are playing .
Playing beside theirselves doesn't implie automatically that the playing can be qualified as frantic, with panic and fear.... If I play something that is traducing tenderness or soul recovery for example, it is not correct to play it with panic and fear despite playing it "beside myself" would still be fantastic ! Thus, I don't see the point of playing all music with fear and panic and I don't see how it is to know the piece to play like that when the piece is NOT about fear and panic. And for me and many others, Op. 127 is clearly not a frantic piece (Op 95 is) so there's nothing good in paying it with agitated tone or fear...
Interspersing,when i play anything, I grimace. like a dawg shitting a peach pit. I like peaches and dogs. just not aware,never had any formal training. but jezze, when playing, you look like grim death warmed over. not aware.Guess it's just something people do.. thanks.
yeah, it's called CONCENTATION!!
make that CONCENTRATION!!!
En lo particular a mi no me gustó la interpretación. No están sincronizados y se evidencias muchos errores del primer violín. Para evidencias de la falta de calidad interpretativa, comparar con los ejecutantes que anexo. La diferencia es del cielo a la tierra. ua-cam.com/video/PzKobNEvrVY/v-deo.html
the cameraman is clearly am amateur
Kamera!!!...
Ich habe eine andere bessere Einspielung dieses Stueckes gehoert, so dass ich diese mir nicht anhoeren kann!
Ich leide zu sehr dabei, weil ich mir die bessere, die ich im Ohr habe, herbei wuensche.
seems like a performance devoid of any refinement or flair, 2 qualities I think you need in this piece, obviously they do a good job but don't have any kind of penetration in my opinion, sorry
I don't agree. This is near enough to the Italiano quartet version to make me happy.
I agree with you.
very 'workaday', showing no actual commitment to the inner flows of the music and in any places pathetically under-rehearsed - I give it 2 stars