BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 8 in E minor (Op. 59, No. 2) 'Razumovsky' Score
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2020
- "The String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published in 1808. This work is the second of three of his "Rasumovsky" cycle of string quartets, and is a product of his "middle" period.
According to Carl Czerny, the second movement of the quartet occurred to Beethoven as he contemplated the starry sky and thought of the music of the spheres (Thayer, Life of Beethoven); it has a hymnlike quality reminiscent of a much later devotion, the "Heiliger Dankgesang" hymn to the Divine in the Quartet Op. 132.
The scherzo movement of the quartet, the third movement (allegretto), uses a Russian theme also used by Modest Mussorgsky in Boris Godunov, by Anton Arensky in his String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, and by Sergei Rachmaninoff in his 6 Morceaux for Piano Duet, Op. 11. The original song, "Glory to the Sun", was recorded by Nikolay Lvov and Jan Prac; sheet music was published in 1790 (second edition 1806), verses in the 1770s. However, Beethoven used it in an ungentle way. According to Kerman, "It sounds as though Count Razumovsky had been tactless enough to hand Beethoven the tune, and Beethoven is pile-driving it into the ground by way of revenge." In an extremely unusual example of melodic setting prior to the 20th century, portions of the tune with strong tonic harmonic leanings are harmonized with the dominant, and vice versa; the harmonic clash is harsh, and many listeners have found this portion of the quartet to be quite amusing, especially as contrasted with the prosaic, almost "exercise-book" counterpoint which precedes it (another example of Beethoven parodying a student counterpoint exercise can be found in the scherzo of the Quartet No. 10, opus 74).
Pianist Jonathan Biss, who is Neubauer Family Chair in Piano Studies at Curtis Institute of Music, has suggested that Opus 59 No. 2 is a proper analogue to - a “close cousin of” - Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”), in that both have a start-to-finish darkness. The two pieces were composed around the same time and Biss notes that although Beethoven wrote many pieces that begin in tragic mode, there are surprisingly few that end there as well. Both compositions also have an opening phrase that is repeated a 1/2 step higher."
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Performed by the Emerson String Quartet (Eugene Drucker, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; Paul Watkins, cello)
Allegro - 00:05
Molto adagio Si tratta questo pezzo con molto di sentimento - 09:14
Allegretto - 21:19
Finale presto - 28:45 - Hudba
prokofiev heard the 4th mvt of this and as like OHHHHHHH
What a piece of music!!!
Beethoven forever. Bravissimo!
16:40❤
Cette œuvre sera jouée dimanche 29 octobre 2023 par le quatuor Elmire en finale du concours de Genève.
THE best Emerson performance I've heard!
26:04 Long live Tsar Boris Feodorovitch!
THIS & THE HARP HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVORITE OF THE MIDDLE. I'M ALWAYS LOVED THE EMERSON STRING QUARTET, BUT THEN, I ALSO LOVE THE QUARTET ITALIANO, THE JULILARD, LaSALLE, & BUDAPEST. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ALL OF THE BEETHOVEN QUARTETS PERFORMED BY HEIFETZ, OISTRAKH, PRIMROSE, & PIATIGORSKY OR FEUERMANN. A COMBINATION LIKE THAT WOULD BE QUITE FASCINATING.
17:51 Look at the cello part.
The Pachelbel progression! Beethoven, what a lazy hack.
@@cdiegorodriguez stfu
this is a wonderful thread.
whats with it? i dont get it
@@wobblyorbee279 the cello part is pachelbel’s canon
intensiv
dat finale
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Beethoven demande la répétition de la partie développement e reexposition .
Pauvres auditeurs , mais richesse pour la philosophie musicale : équilibre avec le second mouvement ? Invention de la musique répétitive ? rhétorique de " ça fait du bien quand ça s arrête " et vision du Paradis avec la venue de la coda ?
S il vous plaît , dites moi d autres hypothèses...
( versions avec cette longueur disponibles sur" earsense")
First!
so boring
your comment is so boring
have you ever realized that maybe it might be you thats boring?
But what about the deceptive rondo in the wrong key that works its way to back to Em by the coda? What about the recurring motif of the F chord following the Em tonic chord? I wouldn't describe either of those things as boring.
If by "boring" you mean boring compared to whatever style of music you prefer, like maybe death metal, bossa nova, or polka, sure, I don't really know how to argue with that, but if you mean "boring" as in boring compared to other classical music, then that's pretty ridiculous.