This is one you fall in love with instantly. That opening is so amazing. The nuance in the opening movement is just perfect. Then the lovely Andante. So deeply absorbing. The 3rd movement delightful in its charms, and subtlety rather than the often encountered stridency his fast movements often possess. some of the harmonic features of the final Allegretto echo the 1st movement. So far my favorite Shosty quartet for it's nuance and relative ambiguity of feeling.
I honestly love this one so much. Also, at 24:29, there’s a motif which appears in both the 12th and 13th quartets, in the 12th right after the opening tone row, and in the 13th right after (or during, not entirely sure) the chorale section beginning after the opening viola solo. I’m noticing a lot of thematic sharing between the quartets, like a motif near the end of the ninth which is repurposed as the second theme of the fourteenth. It’s real interesting
Wunderschöne und detaillierte Interpretation dieses neoklassischen doch ein bisschen ethnisch kompnierten Streichquartetts mit seidigen Tönen beider Violinen, mildem Ton der Bratsche und tiefem Ton des Violoncellos. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Im Kontrast klingt der letzte Satz echt beweglich und auch neuesachlich. Die intime und perfekt entsprechende Miteinanderwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist wahrlich bewundernswert. Wunderbar vom Anfang bis zum Ende!
I hate Toscanini. I’ve never heard him in a concert hall, but I’ve heard enough of his recordings. What he does to music is terrible in my opinion. He chops it up into a hash and then pours a disgusting sauce over it. Toscanini ‘honoured’ me by conducting my symphonies. I heard those records, too, and they’re worthless. I’ve read about Toscanini’s conducting style and his manner of conducting a rehearsal. The people who describe this disgraceful behaviour are for some reason delighted by it. I simply can’t understand what they find delightful. I think it’s outrageous, not delightful. He screams and curses the musicians and makes scenes in the most shameless manner. The poor musicians have to put up with all this nonsense or be sacked. And they even begin to see ‘something in it’. (…) Toscanini sent me his recording of m Seventh Symphony and hearing it made me very angry. Everything is wrong. The spirit and the character and the tempi. It’s a sloppy, hack job. I wrote him a letter expressing my views. I don’t know if he ever got it; maybe he did and pretended not to - that would be completely in keeping with his vain and egoistic style. Why do I think that Toscanini didn’t let it be known that I wrote to him? Because much later I received a letter from America: I was elected to the Toscanini Society! They must have thought that I was a great fan of the maestro’s. I began receiving records on a regular basis: all new recordings by Toscanini. My only comfort is that at least I always have a birthday present handy. Naturally, I wouldn’t give something like that to a friend. But to an acquaintance-why not? It pleases them and it’s less trouble for me. That’s one of life’s most difficult problems- what to give for a birthday or anniversary to a person you don’t particularly like, don’t know very well, and don’t respect. Conductors are too often rude and conceited tyrants. And in my youth I often had to fight fierce battles with them, battles for my music and my dignity.” - Dmitri Shostakovich
This is one you fall in love with instantly. That opening is so amazing. The nuance in the opening movement is just perfect. Then the lovely Andante. So deeply absorbing. The 3rd movement delightful in its charms, and subtlety rather than the often encountered stridency his fast movements often possess. some of the harmonic features of the final Allegretto echo the 1st movement. So far my favorite Shosty quartet for it's nuance and relative ambiguity of feeling.
Aye, that's the game! I love this piece so much. Thank you, Master B.
I honestly love this one so much. Also, at 24:29, there’s a motif which appears in both the 12th and 13th quartets, in the 12th right after the opening tone row, and in the 13th right after (or during, not entirely sure) the chorale section beginning after the opening viola solo. I’m noticing a lot of thematic sharing between the quartets, like a motif near the end of the ninth which is repurposed as the second theme of the fourteenth. It’s real interesting
the viola part in this is incredible
Wunderschöne und detaillierte Interpretation dieses neoklassischen doch ein bisschen ethnisch kompnierten Streichquartetts mit seidigen Tönen beider Violinen, mildem Ton der Bratsche und tiefem Ton des Violoncellos. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Im Kontrast klingt der letzte Satz echt beweglich und auch neuesachlich. Die intime und perfekt entsprechende Miteinanderwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist wahrlich bewundernswert. Wunderbar vom Anfang bis zum Ende!
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I hate Toscanini. I’ve never heard him in a concert hall, but I’ve heard enough of his recordings. What he does to music is terrible in my opinion. He chops it up into a hash and then pours a disgusting sauce over it. Toscanini ‘honoured’ me by conducting my symphonies. I heard those records, too, and they’re worthless. I’ve read about Toscanini’s conducting style and his manner of conducting a rehearsal. The people who describe this disgraceful behaviour are for some reason delighted by it. I simply can’t understand what they find delightful. I think it’s outrageous, not delightful. He screams and curses the musicians and makes scenes in the most shameless manner. The poor musicians have to put up with all this nonsense or be sacked. And they even begin to see ‘something in it’. (…) Toscanini sent me his recording of m Seventh Symphony and hearing it made me very angry. Everything is wrong. The spirit and the character and the tempi. It’s a sloppy, hack job. I wrote him a letter expressing my views. I don’t know if he ever got it; maybe he did and pretended not to - that would be completely in keeping with his vain and egoistic style. Why do I think that Toscanini didn’t let it be known that I wrote to him? Because much later I received a letter from America: I was elected to the Toscanini Society! They must have thought that I was a great fan of the maestro’s. I began receiving records on a regular basis: all new recordings by Toscanini. My only comfort is that at least I always have a birthday present handy. Naturally, I wouldn’t give something like that to a friend. But to an acquaintance-why not? It pleases them and it’s less trouble for me. That’s one of life’s most difficult problems- what to give for a birthday or anniversary to a person you don’t particularly like, don’t know very well, and don’t respect. Conductors are too often rude and conceited tyrants. And in my youth I often had to fight fierce battles with them, battles for my music and my dignity.”
- Dmitri Shostakovich