Emerson String Quartet: Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

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  • @zaimzibran6601
    @zaimzibran6601 4 года назад +764

    You just don't clap after this. How does one clap after this. How do you even function after this bruh

    • @brunoanselmo
      @brunoanselmo 4 года назад +33

      I have no reaction after listening to this magnum opus. Get me speechless all the time.

    • @dwaterson21
      @dwaterson21 3 года назад +6

      This, and Mahler 2. And Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

    • @dwaterson21
      @dwaterson21 3 года назад +4

      And the Jupiter Symphony, which was Mozart's last.

    • @pokerface4848
      @pokerface4848 2 года назад +4

      I thought in most classical recitals clapping is not allowed?

    • @smcaqua1079
      @smcaqua1079 2 года назад +22

      @@pokerface4848 I know this info is 2 months late haha, but clapping after a piece has ended is perfectly acceptable and even expected.
      The problem is when people clap when the piece hasn't finished yet. Like clapping between movements. This piece has 5 movements by the way, so people clapped after it ended ^^
      Hope it helped!!

  • @paulfreeman4900
    @paulfreeman4900 5 лет назад +589

    16 strings, 4 players, a universe of possibilities. The string quartet is the purest of all ensembles.

    • @luizamsalgado
      @luizamsalgado 4 года назад +26

      I love string quartets! The most incredible and noble of all forms of music to me! And Beethoven, Bela Bartok and Shostakovich, rule in this genre. Lots of others great quartets too, pure, absolute music!

    • @liamyates5716
      @liamyates5716 4 года назад +10

      As much as I absolutely love string quartets, I still prefer piano trios over them. Just having that different sound makes it sound even better to me

    • @voraten7206
      @voraten7206 4 года назад +12

      rip double bass haha

    • @kevinv.m.94
      @kevinv.m.94 4 года назад +2

      @@luizamsalgado I'll add Shubert in my list.

    • @Cantbuyathrill
      @Cantbuyathrill 4 года назад +1

      I have to agree!!!!!

  • @aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8
    @aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 2 года назад +117

    I really appreciate the cameraman for keeping the camera on the cellist for pretty much the entire 2nd movement, it made stealing fingerings a lot easier lol

  • @sadullahleventozcan1130
    @sadullahleventozcan1130 4 года назад +619

    Their tempo seemed little bit slow than most performances but sound was clearer than all of them and catch emotions better. Surely this old dudes know their stuff.

    • @rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419
      @rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419 4 года назад +123

      If you can emote quickly, you can emote slowly

    • @Lnarmm
      @Lnarmm 3 года назад +39

      Fellow lingling wanna be I see

    • @iwantsleep8079
      @iwantsleep8079 3 года назад +41

      Idk, I don’t see a reason to slow it down. After all, if you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly
      Pleasedon’tkillmeIjustwantedtomakeajokeIreallyloveandappreciatethesemusiciansandthinkthey’reveryskilledandtalented

    • @miguelmarquez4192
      @miguelmarquez4192 3 года назад +37

      Its not slow. Problem is people want to play it faster than its written. Want something faster, write something.

    • @lunaayi2252
      @lunaayi2252 2 года назад +23

      Lol the original tempo is really very slow. We play this quartet in my college.
      P.S. 2 and 3 parts were pretty quickly.......idk ur point

  • @johnmulhall5625
    @johnmulhall5625 4 года назад +248

    ahhh...from shostakovich's AAAAAAAAAA period

    • @ligemerrill6368
      @ligemerrill6368 3 года назад +22

      Did he have a non AAAAAAAA period?

    • @diegoferreyra8166
      @diegoferreyra8166 3 года назад +1

      HAHAHA

    • @sneddypie
      @sneddypie 3 года назад +9

      when was his not AAAAAAAAAAAAAA period

    • @sneddypie
      @sneddypie 3 года назад +1

      @I Died AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @dottore590
      @dottore590 3 года назад +2

      @I Died so he lived in communist Russia so time were shit and yeah he had a hell life

  • @hankitty444
    @hankitty444 3 года назад +337

    This piece makes me feel the dramatic side of life, the pain, the fear, the brutality and the peace at the same time

    • @johnimusic12
      @johnimusic12 3 года назад +14

      It's just about as perfect of an capsulation of human suffering as any form of art can approximate.

    • @hankitty444
      @hankitty444 3 года назад +3

      @@johnimusic12 It is a good feeling to know that this piece is listened to similar feelings and thoughts.

    • @joseantoni034
      @joseantoni034 3 года назад +4

      I heard first time this because a friend, he told me that he really wants this masterpiece in his funeral.
      When I hear this song came to my mind these image and makes me feel sad and fear but I really enjoy it how these artists play it.

    • @hankitty444
      @hankitty444 3 года назад +1

      @@joseantoni034me too... I would like this piece to be played at any ceremony of my own.

  • @cabbageedwinakachikawawa8419
    @cabbageedwinakachikawawa8419 4 года назад +991

    I'm not even joking, I want this at my wedding.

    • @vanivashisht7305
      @vanivashisht7305 3 года назад +94

      Nice username you got there 🔥👀

    • @johnimusic12
      @johnimusic12 3 года назад +129

      especially if your marriage marks the beginning of a lifelong prison sentence...haha

    • @twosetviolinfan4047
      @twosetviolinfan4047 3 года назад +89

      Yah I also....not that canon in d.....🥴😑.... canon in devorce.....

    • @twosetviolinfan4047
      @twosetviolinfan4047 3 года назад +32

      @@vanivashisht7305 agreed twosetter....

    • @ligemerrill6368
      @ligemerrill6368 3 года назад +22

      I N T E R E S T I N G username there :)

  • @pokerface4848
    @pokerface4848 2 года назад +95

    To think why it sounds this way is that Shostasvosky intended this piece to be his epitaph or a suicide note, dedicated to all the victims of fascism and war. Gladly, he lived to see a performance of his work, wept and cried in realization of his feelings the time he composed this piece.
    - from Shostakovich, Dmitry, ed. Glikman, Isaak (2001). Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman. pp. 90-91

  • @Cantbuyathrill
    @Cantbuyathrill 4 года назад +208

    Even if this had been Shostakovich only composition, he'd still a place among giants. This is intense!!!

  • @Jerry_attrick
    @Jerry_attrick 3 года назад +306

    I played this in high school and I can no longer really afford to play the violin but this piece always brings back so many memories. One of the first pieces that really moved me as a musician, and still can

    • @danielvu5211
      @danielvu5211 3 года назад +39

      how the heck were u able to play this in hs its so hard

    • @lisasimpson3890
      @lisasimpson3890 2 года назад +7

      My friend is playing it and she is in 7th grade

    • @Artist-128
      @Artist-128 2 года назад +20

      @@lisasimpson3890 your friend is God.

    • @graythecolor2649
      @graythecolor2649 Год назад +7

      @@danielvu5211 i’m currently playing it in high school too 😭 my teacher wanted to challenge us by giving this to us 3 weeks before a major competition skfjsjdjsj

    • @shivssd4338
      @shivssd4338 Год назад

      @@danielvu5211 not rly a hard piece

  • @luizamsalgado
    @luizamsalgado 4 года назад +174

    These (and others of his quartets) is a proof that Shostakovich was a genius, immensely talented...

    • @jmascisss
      @jmascisss 4 года назад +16

      ...and his symphonies.

    • @luizamsalgado
      @luizamsalgado 4 года назад +4

      @@jmascisss Certainly, thanks for commenting !He was a genius composer of incredible symphonies, concerts too ! and many more...

    • @arionthedeer7372
      @arionthedeer7372 2 года назад +5

      I think there is a distinction between geniality and expression. Shostakovich had a hard, hard life and it’s clearly evident in his music. Same with the great poets, comedians, actors, and musicians of modern day.

  • @neeltheother2342
    @neeltheother2342 4 года назад +446

    As a former cellist, let me tell ya, rapid string crossings are never fun.
    And then there is the second movenent.

    • @christopherans
      @christopherans 4 года назад +9

      former cellist? why’d you quit :(

    • @neeltheother2342
      @neeltheother2342 4 года назад +30

      @@christopherans Lost interest. And also hated my hs orchestra director and didn't really wanted to pursue it in college either.

    • @christopherans
      @christopherans 4 года назад +29

      @@neeltheother2342 aww. well i hope you found a better suiting career for yourself!

    • @skinnylegend3487
      @skinnylegend3487 3 года назад +2

      But for violin theyre fun

    • @Felix-Memoria.
      @Felix-Memoria. 3 года назад

      @@neeltheother2342 hi quick question is it possible to learn play cello without a teacher

  • @gnosontheinternet6879
    @gnosontheinternet6879 3 года назад +28

    i told my niece that there's a music for every human feeling
    she said asked me if a person can get depressed abt something that scares them
    i told her idk, but there's a music for it, and sent this to her

    • @Quake120
      @Quake120 7 месяцев назад +1

      Show your niece this quote from Shostakoitch:
      “Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment - and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.” - Dmitri Shostakovich.

  • @Patryc
    @Patryc 5 лет назад +121

    6:14 sooo good

  • @eitanwacks3635
    @eitanwacks3635 4 года назад +372

    I never thought I would say this but...
    Damn, that's a good violist!

    • @mythil3989
      @mythil3989 4 года назад +7

      Like Literally

    • @ligemerrill6368
      @ligemerrill6368 4 года назад +51

      The Viola Gang would be offended, if TwoSet hadn't built up their immunity to the point that they barely even notice insults anymore. :)

    • @dilekguzel4026
      @dilekguzel4026 3 года назад +14

      Cellist and violist is really good

    • @dilekguzel4026
      @dilekguzel4026 3 года назад +26

      Viola gang viola gang viola gang viola gang viola gang viola gang viola gang

    • @dilekguzel4026
      @dilekguzel4026 3 года назад +4

      @tt c my favourite part 16:15 in here cellist was really perfect

  • @staffanolofsson8201
    @staffanolofsson8201 3 года назад +41

    I think this is about how we all went wrong. We had it in our hands, the solution that would bring peace to us, but then it slipped away, and instead we now have to regret our mistakes. And our lamentation can sound like this. Our mistakes are already history, but the music about it still exists. And what music! At least we have this wonderful music.

    • @HarryWhittle2019
      @HarryWhittle2019 3 года назад +1

      Very nice interpretation.

    • @mikaschmidt2110
      @mikaschmidt2110 3 года назад

      Well said

    • @TheShadowPerson.
      @TheShadowPerson. 2 года назад

      If you learned anything from history, you'd learn that history repeats. We live in a very paradoxical and cyclical timeline.

  • @jakubedwardschiffauermedraj
    @jakubedwardschiffauermedraj 5 лет назад +284

    Amazing performance! Shostakovich is a great composer too!
    12:38 for TwosetViolin fans (just by the way)

  • @keels829
    @keels829 Год назад +22

    This is the metal of classical music

    • @laurenhahn101
      @laurenhahn101 7 месяцев назад +1

      This and some of the Bartok string quartets. :)

  • @aanirasmusson8203
    @aanirasmusson8203 4 года назад +89

    I came on here simply for an orchestra assignment, but I'm absolutely amazed. They play with such precision and emotion. They seem to communicate with each other throughout the song, giving each person the spotlight. I noticed that when a page needs to be turned, there's generally one person playing the melody while the other flips, and they switch between that role. This is such an amazing video! 😍😍😍

  • @calebclark9114
    @calebclark9114 Год назад +17

    I love the 1st movement. It has a deep sadness and gloom to it but you can hear a sort of peace peeking out in it. I picture a terminally ill person looking out a window reminiscing on their good but o so very short life knowing that death is just around the corner.

  • @solaireof_astora
    @solaireof_astora 3 года назад +129

    Somebody wrote “SOCIETY” all over my orchestra teacher’s copy of this lmao

  • @jonathangriffin4594
    @jonathangriffin4594 5 лет назад +90

    Wow...... as a bassist I am sad I can't join the string quartet club. I can't imagine the power of seeing this live

    • @interrexclamacion
      @interrexclamacion 4 года назад +27

      You do get jazz though.

    • @cockhammer09
      @cockhammer09 4 года назад +14

      Oh, imagine if Shostakovich had written quintets that added a bass?......I just imagine..wow!

    • @wardbrooks4381
      @wardbrooks4381 4 года назад +10

      Cello fits a bass players hands....one of the easiest transitions. GO FOR IT !

    • @indioduran4535
      @indioduran4535 4 года назад +2

      Jonathan Griffin me too :(

    • @clydegrey5061
      @clydegrey5061 4 года назад +1

      @@interrexclamacion couldn't have said it better hahha. Cellos thankfully pop up in jazz quite a bit too

  • @euphony5552
    @euphony5552 5 лет назад +137

    The cellist was so enthusiastic

    • @Duckclock-ys3zj
      @Duckclock-ys3zj 4 года назад +15

      Ngl he looks so happy there

    • @ETMargraf
      @ETMargraf 4 года назад +16

      I know Paul personally and he is enthusiastic all the time

    • @GingerBun
      @GingerBun 4 года назад +11

      he just be vibin

    • @Roititouan
      @Roititouan 3 года назад +1

      I don't understand how someone can be happy to play war music

    • @kimv7954
      @kimv7954 Год назад

      @@Roititouan some people feel happy just playing music itself

  • @fransmeersman2334
    @fransmeersman2334 5 лет назад +164

    For me the most beatiful and impressive string quartet of the 20 th century. Great performance !

    • @interrexclamacion
      @interrexclamacion 4 года назад +6

      Haydn?

    • @mogmason6920
      @mogmason6920 4 года назад +2

      @[Insert [Insert Username here] here] The father of the string quartet approves!!!

    • @Spoutinwyze
      @Spoutinwyze 3 года назад +1

      the LA String Quartet is also absolutely amazing. I like almost any professional stringed quartet though. Such range.

    • @aaaaa111aaaaa
      @aaaaa111aaaaa Год назад

      ​@@interrexclamacionah yes, Haydn,my Favorite 20th century composer

  • @thegainster1860
    @thegainster1860 4 года назад +38

    That cellist is absolutely shredding. Amazing work by every there.

  • @NeoPlaysViolin
    @NeoPlaysViolin 3 года назад +28

    The Emerson String Quartet is ageless... they were one of my favorite ensembles to listen to growing up decades ago and they're still going strong.
    Emotionally exhaustive work to listen to, let alone play. Even more incredible is the fact that Shostakovich composed it in just a few days! (It helped that he borrowed source material from other works like the 2nd Piano Trio)

  • @mgabss
    @mgabss 5 лет назад +45

    I keep listening to it and I can't get enough. Such a good performance.

  • @diegoriveme93
    @diegoriveme93 4 года назад +41

    I hadn't heard this one before and just realize it includes the melody of his cello concerto, how amazing! Also loved the roles he gave each instrument and not only the violins

    • @nickyork8901
      @nickyork8901 3 года назад +13

      His signature motif (DSCH), used in a number of his works. He also quotes himself eg. Symphony no. 5

    • @dominicdelprincipe2583
      @dominicdelprincipe2583 3 года назад +3

      Yeah he does a lot of self-referencing ... interesting to hear the themes in other contexts

    • @chriswalford4161
      @chriswalford4161 Месяц назад

      The cello was Dmitri’s instrument.

  • @kacemchawqi5787
    @kacemchawqi5787 4 года назад +102

    12:52 ....wait....WII THEME :D

    • @astreaw
      @astreaw 4 года назад +4

      ruclips.net/video/o_Fv-Cj8Ax4/видео.html

    • @therajgreek420
      @therajgreek420 4 года назад

      thanks you killed my girlfriend

  • @Nicole-ww4lg
    @Nicole-ww4lg 3 года назад +17

    I still love their interpretation of this piece better than any other I've heard

  • @mfk1673
    @mfk1673 День назад

    Music has to be the most powerful form of art, as exemplified by this excruciatingly beautiful peice.

  • @chita196
    @chita196 5 лет назад +274

    5:11
    When you realize you forgot your homework.

    • @dylanlane5256
      @dylanlane5256 4 года назад +15

      Silvahhh when youre 5 seconds away from falling asleep and realize you forgot something

    • @noralapusya5485
      @noralapusya5485 4 года назад +6

      You know, that this piece was dedicated as a memorial to the victims of the 1945 Dresden fire bombing, right? I guess your homework is comparably important for you.

    • @chita196
      @chita196 4 года назад +20

      @@noralapusya5485 dayum. You know, 7 months ago, I was only looking to make a witty joke, but I guess I've been enlightened xD.

    • @dodobyrde4645
      @dodobyrde4645 4 года назад +2

      When you need to pinch a loaf but the door won't open

    • @paigeanimates446
      @paigeanimates446 4 года назад

      YESSS

  • @bluecatraptor
    @bluecatraptor 2 года назад +24

    when the viola got more interesting parts then the second violin.
    how about that, twosetfans?
    and in the ending I just held my breath until the quartet took their bows away. such a great performance.

    • @xNatexBail
      @xNatexBail Год назад

      Shut up Viola fan😂

    • @mollieephobia
      @mollieephobia Год назад +1

      FR!!!! im a violist and i honestly want to play this so badly even though i’d likely fail horribly

  • @cellogirl11rw55
    @cellogirl11rw55 4 года назад +26

    This is one of my favorite pieces. I really hope to play it one day.

    • @haobaichen3307
      @haobaichen3307 4 года назад +3

      cellogirl11RW I’ve done this piece, the cello part is spectacular! Especially the opening line, and the cello solo partway through the first movement. I’m sure you will be able to play this piece one day, it is quite a famous quartet, and as far as I know it is popular amongst youth quartet groups due to the lower technical skill requirement, but the deep understanding of the music required to truly make this piece sound beautiful. In the meantime, keep practicing, and I hope you and your family are doing ok in these turbulent times!

    • @faithclarke7721
      @faithclarke7721 3 года назад +2

      I played it in my college orchestra, leme tell you the second movement is sweaty XDDD so fun to play tho so intense in some parts and so soft in others and emotional

  • @valdemar9960
    @valdemar9960 5 лет назад +33

    Love that cellist!!

  • @bruceyang159
    @bruceyang159 5 лет назад +36

    Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op.67
    Similar tune
    6:14

    • @HaydenofEverything
      @HaydenofEverything 5 лет назад +12

      That's the point of it. He was quoting himself there

    • @GEMINDIGO
      @GEMINDIGO 5 лет назад

      I'll check it out thanks.
      Wanna check out my experimental/alternativ music video from New Zealand...?
      ruclips.net/video/WXPBM2LBJsc/видео.html

    • @Nicole-ww4lg
      @Nicole-ww4lg 5 лет назад +6

      It's actually a quote of a Jewish folk tune. I'm not sure about the piano trio but he wrote this piece while in Berlin writing music for s film about world war two

    • @halfnhalf5038
      @halfnhalf5038 4 года назад +6

      Nicole Shostakovich wrote this piece when he was depressed. At the start of this piece, he is quoting himself (DSCH or D,D#,C,B) and then quoting his piano trio (the one with the Jewish dance, fun fact; he wrote it for his Jewish friend!), basically this quartet contains all of the great works he had done. This was not written for a film from what I know.
      Edit: this was written for a film but he dedicated it to himself. But from what I do know, this piece was about Shostakovich. I need to read more

    • @sweetfangs1979
      @sweetfangs1979 4 года назад +2

      he quoted a lot of his works and other composers' works too.

  • @winnetou1007
    @winnetou1007 4 года назад +13

    The theme D S C H stands for dimitri shostakovich. He also used this thema i his 10 synphonie.

  • @tmann986
    @tmann986 3 года назад +9

    And so it begins, writing my essay the night before it’s due. But seriously my favorite! One day I’ll learn this on violin!

  • @gematr14a42
    @gematr14a42 4 года назад +12

    My favourite recording.

  • @Soozviolinjourney
    @Soozviolinjourney 3 года назад +14

    I had chills watching this. Powerful performance!

  • @jasonmp85
    @jasonmp85 3 месяца назад +2

    I love the flags in the background that say peace and hope as the sound of boxcars full of wailing people and midnight banging on your door punctuate periods of dreary existence.

  • @Vickyvukovichviola
    @Vickyvukovichviola 4 года назад +15

    what an amazing performance of my favourite string quartet. Lost for words really.

  • @coolusername9412
    @coolusername9412 4 года назад +26

    0:48 You can hear the same cadence in his first symphony.

  • @jeffphillips2582
    @jeffphillips2582 2 года назад +6

    Shostakovich is great and this performance served the composition well. Tremendous quartet. 🔥

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland8549 5 лет назад +9

    Wonderful performance by a superb quartet; I'm a great fan of Shostakovich. Thank for posting.

  • @RicardoMartinez-jy5lo
    @RicardoMartinez-jy5lo 3 года назад +6

    This is the best of mid and late 20th Century music, drama and harmony majestically expressed at the same time. It expresses all that the classics did not even imagine would need to be musically told. Love live Russia!

  • @steveslagle1859
    @steveslagle1859 4 года назад +9

    really great playing of Shostakovitch 8 qt.---brilliant work--brilliant playing!

  • @thomasbussen
    @thomasbussen Год назад +3

    this piece is so relatable tbh. the passages bring out a lot of familiar emotions and sometimes when im hating everything, ill go play intense dissonant chords and notes because its a helpful way to cope with built up emotions. love this piece fr

  • @jorgeledesma7420
    @jorgeledesma7420 4 года назад +9

    Uno de los mejores cuartetos de cuerda de Shostakovich con el famoso cuarteto Emerson. Un gran deleite para los amantes de música de cámara.

  • @prestonroberts2941
    @prestonroberts2941 3 года назад +11

    6:15 though. Magnificent.

  • @Deutschland-1977
    @Deutschland-1977 3 года назад +6

    What a spirited performance. Full of humanity. I love this work. Thank you!

  • @gidrostoy
    @gidrostoy 3 года назад +13

    Спасибо . Это было волшебно

  • @Spoutinwyze
    @Spoutinwyze 3 года назад +8

    I swear Danny Elfman gathered much inspiration from this piece when working on some of the scores for several of Tim Burton's movies. I specifically hear the first few notes of one of the more familiar songs from Nightmare before Christmas in this.

  • @ZhaodiWang
    @ZhaodiWang 5 лет назад +12

    Out of this world! Especially the last movement

  • @brendanreeves9645
    @brendanreeves9645 2 года назад +6

    The conversation between the two violins starting at 14:32 is so heartfelt

  • @knownfact4905
    @knownfact4905 2 года назад +5

    Superior version, I like how they patiently take their time with it. I'd also recommend the St Petersburg String Quartet

  • @ViolinTimeWithERI
    @ViolinTimeWithERI 4 года назад +5

    What a superb performance !!!
    Thank you for sharing~~🌼💖🎻

  • @mauriziorocchi
    @mauriziorocchi 4 года назад +6

    A music that tears out.

  • @aramkhachaturian8043
    @aramkhachaturian8043 4 года назад +28

    Interesting interpretation, in my opinion I like when the second largo is a bit slower and the allegretto has more staccato on the shostakovich motif.

    • @iaf4454
      @iaf4454 3 года назад

      Hahaha Sure Aram 😀😀

    • @jasonmp85
      @jasonmp85 3 месяца назад

      Jesus Christ imagining having a khachaturian username and commenting on this

  • @Implidoodaa
    @Implidoodaa 4 года назад +9

    what a stunning piece of music :O

  • @kursatsar1196
    @kursatsar1196 3 года назад +3

    *That's what I call art,thank you for this song*

  • @3.141r
    @3.141r Год назад +1

    j'ecoute cette piece cas tous les jours. votre performance est magnifique! merci de la partager avec moi:)

  • @MeatMachine212
    @MeatMachine212 Год назад +2

    there is nothing better in existence

  • @KatieScarlett2353
    @KatieScarlett2353 14 часов назад

    I went with a Russian friend to hear the Emerson Quartet play Shostokovich in London, maybe 20 years ago.
    All the players except cello were on their feet, at that time - explaining that it literally "kept them on their toes".
    It was an electrifying concert - so I was dismayed that my friend dismissed it as "boring"... though that gave me some insight into her soul, I suppose.

  • @xixexperience5882
    @xixexperience5882 3 года назад +2

    Love the transition from largo to allegro molto.

  • @philosophiaentis5612
    @philosophiaentis5612 5 лет назад +6

    I am a pianist who fucking love string quartets.

  • @jeanattali4005
    @jeanattali4005 3 года назад +4

    From T. Vollmann’s “Europe Central” :"Best listened to in a windowless room, better than best an airless room, correctly speaking, a bunker sealed forever and enwrapped in tree-roots, the Eighth String Quartet of Shostakovich (Opus 110) is the living corpse of music, perfect in its horror. Call it the simultaneous asphyxiation and bleeding of melody [...] We might note that this quartet opens with the four-note signature D, E-flat, C, B, which is to say in appropriately German notation DSCH, and which therefore is also to say Dmitri Shostakovich. Assertion of self-characterized Soviet artists who were persecuted for following their private Muses."

  • @johnfrobin
    @johnfrobin 3 года назад +2

    A stunning performance.

  • @francescaziveri6169
    @francescaziveri6169 5 лет назад +2

    Bravissimi!!!! La versione che amo di più tra quelle pubblicate!!!!

  • @GEMINDIGO
    @GEMINDIGO 5 лет назад +8

    Lovely thank you!

  • @ladyindira
    @ladyindira Год назад

    What a piece!! *standing ovation*. 😮

  • @KamrynBailey-zl5ux
    @KamrynBailey-zl5ux Год назад +6

    This piece was written as a suicide letter during communist Russia. Shostakovich wanted a piece to be remembered by. This is essentially written to demonstrate his fear of the government and how he could have been taken in the middle of the night. Beautifully chaotic piece.

  • @twosetviolinfan4047
    @twosetviolinfan4047 3 года назад +12

    #twosetters....❤️

  • @gerardbegni2806
    @gerardbegni2806 3 месяца назад +1

    This quartet built upon the letters of the composer's name (DSCH) is both very strict in the motive derivatives and presnts a subjective tone hich makes it a unique tonal masterpiece. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @stephaniekrawiec6758
    @stephaniekrawiec6758 Год назад +2

    I read the book the siege of Leningrad, so I had to check out Mr. Shostakovich. I’m used to bands like the Stones, Hole, Alice In Chains, but after nuff beers, classical music has its points. Please read “The Siege of Leningrad “, it’s, uh, what you need to read!

    • @michaelparloff1155
      @michaelparloff1155  Год назад +1

      FYI, here is a video of Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony, which was premiered during the siege itself on August 9, 1942: ruclips.net/video/kwqZRhPXElQ/видео.html The Russian military officer in command of defense forces released any soldier who could play an orchestral instrument reasonably well long enough for the performance, which was transmitted by loudspeakers around the perimeter of the city, both to hearten the Russian people and to make the point to the Germans that surrender was not at hand. During the concert, empty chairs were placed in the orchestra to represent musicians who had perished before the performance could be given.

  • @welcome2insanity
    @welcome2insanity 4 года назад +4

    Beautiful

  • @igortsyb1
    @igortsyb1 3 месяца назад +2

    In this work, as in the 10th symphony, the theme of Stalin is clearly present, especially in the second movement. Just like the 10th symphony, this is undoubtedly an autobiographical work.

  • @Mojokiss
    @Mojokiss 3 года назад +5

    I aspire to be one of these men

    • @dishatto
      @dishatto 18 дней назад

      Do you have a RUclips channel?

  • @robertcajucom3203
    @robertcajucom3203 5 лет назад +9

    Greetings from a guy who lives about 10 minutes from Kinderkamak Road

  • @danabostedt3813
    @danabostedt3813 3 года назад +11

    12:50 Mii Theme but cooler

  • @h0rcrux774
    @h0rcrux774 4 года назад +23

    6:18 DAMNNNN

  • @venice9438
    @venice9438 2 года назад +1

    Love this video every time

  • @clydegrey5061
    @clydegrey5061 4 года назад +2

    Really interested about the cello concerto 1 themes that come up throughout.

  • @alexandravictoria6307
    @alexandravictoria6307 5 лет назад +7

    best performance I have heard

  • @wimpiii507
    @wimpiii507 3 года назад +5

    10:08 shostakovich cello concerto 1!!

  • @claytonhinton6653
    @claytonhinton6653 5 лет назад +12

    incredibly played

  • @leonhobo9145
    @leonhobo9145 3 года назад +4

    Благодарю.

  • @chrischan8302
    @chrischan8302 3 года назад +2

    this is very awesome !

  • @gratefultube
    @gratefultube 7 месяцев назад

    Many, many thanks.

  • @Nicole-ww4lg
    @Nicole-ww4lg 5 лет назад +34

    'for the victims of fascism and war'
    Just as appropriate now in 2019 as it was when Shostakovich wrote this piece in the 1960s

    • @k.forsythe8348
      @k.forsythe8348 5 лет назад +5

      You're kind of removed from reality, aren't you? "Fascism" doesn't exist.
      The victims today are caused by the forced invasion of Europe by hostile foreigners, and total silence by the mainstream media when it results in racial violence against Europeans on a daily basis; the forced "diversity" imposed on the USA and Canada, which yields unsurprisingly similar results; the ongoing, violent genocide of white South Africans that conveniently goes ignored by the aforementioned propagandists.
      But yeah, let's ignore reality, and tell ourselves that "fascism" causes so many victims these days.

    • @heihei5306
      @heihei5306 4 года назад

      And let us forget that he wrote the pice while fearing for his life, as the communist regime might take it any day

    • @yeon-hwalyi7343
      @yeon-hwalyi7343 4 года назад +14

      @@k.forsythe8348 you re the living proof that fascism still lives, crawling around us

    • @Nicole-ww4lg
      @Nicole-ww4lg 4 года назад +6

      @@k.forsythe8348 citizens of the United States were put in cages at standing Rock North Dakota in 2015-16 and numbers were written on their arms with sharpies. just because Rachel Maddow didn't tell you about it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Corporations buy our government who then rule in favor of the corporations over and over while workers are literally dying because of corporate greed. Textbook fascism.

    • @Nicole-ww4lg
      @Nicole-ww4lg 3 года назад

      @@k.forsythe8348 and now with experimental drugs being mandated, 'show your papers' or you can't be a normal human being I'm still not living in reality to say fascism is alive and well???

  • @danielsgrunge
    @danielsgrunge Год назад

    Absolutely fantastic

  • @zoltanorsky
    @zoltanorsky Месяц назад

    My favourite!!

  • @tortysoft
    @tortysoft 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful.

  • @luismoralesz
    @luismoralesz 4 года назад +3

    Hermoso cuarteto muy explosivo

  • @them11kman43
    @them11kman43 5 лет назад +133

    Two Set anyone?

  • @pesjaner1
    @pesjaner1 4 года назад +5

    Omg! That was good.

  • @patrickmullowney4220
    @patrickmullowney4220 3 года назад +5

    the music is great, but the cuts are very annoying.i would be happy with one static long shot. i want to see how the melody transfers from one instrument to another.

  • @oj2339
    @oj2339 4 года назад +6

    Best Dillinger Escape Plan album

    • @jamespeterson1630
      @jamespeterson1630 2 года назад

      Wait what. I like Dillinger (and miss them) but wut lol

  • @DanihellPQ
    @DanihellPQ Месяц назад

    Allegro molto part reminds me a liitle bit the initial part of Septicflesh's "Coming Storm".

  • @diogenes2763
    @diogenes2763 3 года назад +1

    thanks