Brahms - String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51 No. 2
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51 No. 2 (1873)
Analysis below ↓
MVT I
EXPOSITION
0:00 - Theme 1, A minor
0:33 - Transition
1:13 - Theme 2, C major
2:45 - Closing section
3:25 - Repetition of the exposition
DEVELOPMENT
6:25 - T1 in first violin imitated by the cello and viola shortly after
6:58 - Fragments from T1
7:38 - Climax
8:05 - Retransition
RECAPITULATION
8:15 - T1, A minor
8:46 - Transition
9:06 - T2, A major
10:37 - Closing material
10:46 - CODA
MVT II
12:18 - A section, A major
15:17 - B section, F-sharp minor
17:33 - A’ section, starting in F major then going back to A major
20:03 - Coda
MVT III
21:09 - Minuet, A minor
22:43 - Trio, A major
24:34 - Minuet reprise, A minor
MVT IV (sonata-rondo form)
EXPOSITION
25:55 - Theme 1, A minor
26:33 - Transition
26:42 - Theme 2, C major
27:12 - Closing material
27:44 - Transition
DEVELOPMENT
28:02 - T1, A minor
28:31 - T2, F major
29:04 - Climax
29:17 - Retransition
RECAPITULATION
29:29 - T1, A minor
30:10 - T2, A major
30:39 - Closing material
CODA
31:12 - Poco tranquillo, A major
32:10 - Piú vivace, A minor
Performed by the Emerson Quartet. 
Видеоклипы
0:00 - I. Allegro ma non troppo
12:18 - II. Andante moderato
21:09 - III. Quasi Minuetto, moderato
25:55 - IV. Finale: Allegro non assai
When I was young I found myself stuck in the 19th century dispute led by Hanslick between supporters of Brahms on the one hand and supporters of Bruckner and Wagner on the ohter. I found myself on the Wagner side of this quarrel, and it was only later that I came to agree with my favorite composer Arnold Schoenberg when he wrote "Brahms could be a revolutionary and Wagner could be a pedant."
Brahms is thinking ‘Every note has it’s meaning’ And the whole music shows it
Just listened to the last movement again. I am always in awe of just how organically it's constructed, even for Brahms.
I've always found Brahms' music a bit of a tough nut to crack, but that description is a blessing. Thank you very much for your effort!!!!!!
The thing about Brahms is that he consistently sticks to classical forms in all of his large forms.
@@joshscores3360 for me maybe it was more of the obsessive craft and fragmentation Johannes shows
@@dacoconutnut9503 That too. His music often sounds heavy and lumbering (e.g. the sonatas, the symphonies, the piano quintet), which I guess is a sort of archetypical Brahms thing. And I like it!
@@joshscores3360 I'm still discovering his oeuvre, but I hope I'm in the right direction
This. So many people abandon listening to his music entirely because - let’s face it - with a few notable exceptions, his compositions are not *instantly* likeable. It’s the same thing with Schumann.
Which is one of the reasons might I add that I find myself coming back to Brahms all the time. You can always learn something from it with every subsequent listening or analysis. As a composer, you can’t find a better teacher.
In my alma mater, it has become sort of chic to say that his pieces “start out great, then they become uninteresting”, which leads me to believe that many uninitiated listeners just zone out before they could acquire at least a modicum of understanding and aptitude in navigating his musical vernacular. I also blame a lot of the performers who play his music much, much too slowly without any dynamism and treat it like a soulless, academic, diluted shell of itself to the point where it loses its structure and meaning.
The architecture of each movement of this string quartet is awesome
One of my favorite quartets. The opening is so autumnal!
One thing that strikes me a lot: Today I was mentally revising the structure of the opening movement as a model for a quartet I'm composing, and I realized the opening motif is barely repeated. I went to this recording and it turns out my memory wasn't faulty. The motif appears at the start of the exposition and in the codetta as an afterthought. Then it appears in a few spots more in the development, but not much. It's even syncopated during the recap. It's not like B. forgot about it, but it's underrepresented. Maybe I'm missing something.
It's so strange! Not unheard in Mozart's sonata forms (esp. early ones) and I think the piece's still a masterpiece and works well, but it's surprising!
Thank you very much for the Quartet,and for the analysis
is the opening theme a combination of FAE and FAF?
Tanglewood 2022 viola excerpt is at second theme, 1:13
Exquisite rendition, but who's playing?
Emerson q
1:30 (for personal audition purposes)
The first in c minor gets played more often . This is actually my first time hearing the a minor quartet. Thought I'd find a memorable melody in 2nd mov. Very strong music but it doesn't endear itself immediately . The quasi Minuetto has a lot of atmosphere and presence as it is played here ! Bingo the finale too is irrepressible in Brahms .He is very different in a minor than he is in c ,e,dminor or g minor f#.minor I play many of his piano works
"Very strong music but it doesn't endear itself immediately ."
That's probably true of all Brahms. I remember as a kid first hearing the Brahms 1st symphony and thinking "what the heck was that?" I couldn't make heads or tails of it. But in all the decades since, every time I have heard it again, I have appreciated it more. I now see how truly rich and beautiful it is, to the point where now it just takes my breath away every time I hear it.
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