I just attended a master class with Takacs, and they are amazing musicians. They are also great people. It all comes through beautifully in this recording.
I feel so fortunate to attend both concerts and master classes by the Takacs String Quartet at Music Academy of the West every summer. Indeed, they are amazing musicians and charming, warm people as well.
currently working on the first and second movement with my chamber group, about to move on the the third. amazing piece, and amazing recording!! (im first violin)
They all four are very seriously following the photographer's instruction "CHHHEEESE!". I don't understand why M. Shiff isn't on the photo... Anyway their performance is perfect -- as usual.
I just don't have an ear for the modern style music - it is almost un-listenable. I have listened to a number of Korngold's compositions, can only find parts of them that are listenable. But mostly not my thing. Give me pre 1880 music styles all the way back to the 1600s - all the styles in that period most enjoyable listening. Lets hope for a revival of melody as a foundation in composition again.
I, too love melody. You give 1880 as the cut off point when melody ended in classical music. But I think of the second movement of Ravel's concerto in G. Mahler's adagietto to symphony # 5...His 8th symphony. R. Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier,Satie,Rachmaninov, Holst, Hahn, Villa- Lobos,Shostakovich's piano concerto, 2nd movement, even Menotti! There is still much to love after 1880. I think.
With Renzo and Junghoon! I feel really sorry for you, sir, for thus losing those wonderful melodies in the Mahler quartet, the Boellmann and Reger cello suites and sonatas, the Glazunov, Röntgen, Hannikainnen, Künneke, Ludvig Thuille (1886!) or Joseph Marx piano concertos or other works and, perhaps above all, the wonderful melodies in the 2nd movement of Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto. No lines should be drawn for discovering the timeless wonders that could crop up even in the 20th c., otherwise you stand no chance. And I'm also sorry that you can't enjoy Dohnányi's music.
SO MANY COMPOSERS ROMANTIC TUNEFULL MUSIC UP TO 195X'S AT LEAST. TRY WILHELM STENHAMMAR, FRANK BRIDGE, JOHN IRELAND, EDWARD BAINTON, RUTLAND BOUGHTON, ARNOLD BAX, ARTHUR BLISS, SERGE PROKOFIEV, EDMUND RUBBRA, AND WILLIAM ALWYN FOR A START, ALL BORN BETWEEN 1871 AND 1905 !!, AND THEY ALL COMPOSED BEATIFULL EXCELLENT MUSIC !!!!.
Excellent piece!
I just attended a master class with Takacs, and they are amazing musicians. They are also great people. It all comes through beautifully in this recording.
wonderful performance
Timeless masterpiece. Top class performance.
I feel so fortunate to attend both concerts and master classes by the Takacs String Quartet at Music Academy of the West every summer. Indeed, they are amazing musicians and charming, warm people as well.
Beloved Andras Schiff! And great Takacs Quartet!
last movement - so wonderful!
currently working on the first and second movement with my chamber group, about to move on the the third. amazing piece, and amazing recording!! (im first violin)
They all four are very seriously following the photographer's instruction "CHHHEEESE!".
I don't understand why M. Shiff isn't on the photo... Anyway their performance is perfect -- as usual.
magnificent
This piece earned the warm praise of no less than Johannes Brahms, who wrote a pretty decent piano quintet himself!
“Pretty decent” xddd you mad.. the best ever taken to paper
Hey it’s John Williams!
Andras Schiff and the Takacs String Quartet. Nobody could play this music as well as them.
I like how Schiff isn't even in the picture... lol
If Takacs or Andras deserve it... I'm gonna go with Takacs haha
@@mcrettable they did do four times the work! :P
sadly Obey Thoven died. i learned about him in VAPA class and we used boomwackers to mimic his music
....and. this was recorded in a. shoebox?
I just don't have an ear for the modern style music - it is almost un-listenable. I have listened to a number of Korngold's compositions, can only find parts of them that are listenable. But mostly not my thing. Give me pre 1880 music styles all the way back to the 1600s - all the styles in that period most enjoyable listening. Lets hope for a revival of melody as a foundation in composition again.
I, too love melody.
You give 1880 as the cut off point when melody ended in classical music. But I think of the second movement of Ravel's concerto in G.
Mahler's adagietto to symphony # 5...His 8th symphony. R. Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier,Satie,Rachmaninov, Holst, Hahn, Villa- Lobos,Shostakovich's piano concerto, 2nd movement, even Menotti! There is still much to love after 1880. I think.
How about Russian Romanticism, including Rachmaninov, Medtner, and such?
Wow how right you are sir here here !
With Renzo and Junghoon! I feel really sorry for you, sir, for thus losing those wonderful melodies in the Mahler quartet, the Boellmann and Reger cello suites and sonatas, the Glazunov, Röntgen, Hannikainnen, Künneke, Ludvig Thuille (1886!) or Joseph Marx piano concertos or other works and, perhaps above all, the wonderful melodies in the 2nd movement of Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto. No lines should be drawn for discovering the timeless wonders that could crop up even in the 20th c., otherwise you stand no chance. And I'm also sorry that you can't enjoy Dohnányi's music.
SO MANY COMPOSERS ROMANTIC TUNEFULL MUSIC UP TO 195X'S AT LEAST. TRY WILHELM STENHAMMAR, FRANK BRIDGE, JOHN IRELAND, EDWARD BAINTON, RUTLAND BOUGHTON, ARNOLD BAX, ARTHUR BLISS, SERGE PROKOFIEV, EDMUND RUBBRA, AND WILLIAM ALWYN FOR A START, ALL BORN BETWEEN 1871 AND 1905 !!, AND THEY ALL COMPOSED BEATIFULL EXCELLENT MUSIC !!!!.