Beethoven - Große Fuge, Op. 133 - Performed by the Artemis Quartet
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Violins - Natalia Prishepenko and Heime Müller
Viola - Volker Jacobsen
Cello - Eckart Runge
Recorded live at the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, France on April 8th 2001.
A modern masterpiece - powerful, deep and disturbing . Beethoven skipped a whole century, when he composed it.
Didn't get the "disturbing" part. Moving, you meant?
Now two whole centuries..... Still contemporary.
Beethoven would have been proud of these people.
This is the most utterly amazing interpretation: the calm is so utterly calm and then the curl of Prishepenko's lip as she launches into the "violent" theme......I have listened to this for many years, but burst into tears when I saw and heard that moment, because it so completely represents the schizophrenia that is the Grosse Fugue for me, the struggle for calm, disturbed by violent outbursts, which also, to me, represents the struggle of life itself. Every member of this quartet seems completely invested in the music, they seem to embody the music--no detached "perfect" playing here--every moment is infused with emotion, and what feels to me like the emotion that Beethoven must have intended. Just an amazing performance.
Brilliant commentary
9:42 wow that second violin part!!
This is musical madness, even the quiet bits seem like a passive-agressive slow-burn provocation before yelling and waving arms manically around the listener. "Does my suffering seem amusing to you hahahhaha?" I absolutely love this shait-hit-the-fan masterpiece!
more like "is my suffering beautiful?"
It's a difficult music. Beethoven's masterpiece and perhaps the best in Western classical music history.
I agree wholeheartedly. The intellectual and emotional content of this piece is, in my opinion, unmatched in Western Music. Add to that the fact that it came from the mind of a man who was most likely completely deaf at this point in his life and you have one of the most remarkable artistic achievements of mankind.
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I love this band! What a great performance. And thank God the camera people know the score well enough to spotlight the player who dominates the dramatic moments.
Band? Don’t you even know what a string quartet is?
Very much this. It's infuriating when you know a good bit in the viola is coming up and the camera operator decides it's the perfect time to focus on the hairs of the left nostril of the first violin.
Beethoven - the first Metalhead \m/
This Opus is beyond words.
I can feel the whole universe energy diggin deep into my cheast.
Danke, Beethoven. das ist ja fast hochmodern. - wenn man sich vorstellt, was er noch alles hätte schreiben können. aber es war allemal genug, was uns hinterlassen wurde.
This always makes me think of the cries of a trapped animal. Beethoven trapped in his world without sound? Beautiful and painful at the same time.
What a load of B.S! Your comment is. He is far beyond that world.
Beethoven had plenty of music and sound in his head. He didn't need to hear.
Tony He is not trapped! That is a wrong term for Beethoven, in fact he is even more free then if he were not to be deaf, it is what God made him to become. The sounds you’re hearing is not of a trapped animal, but instead a inner victory for being able to make two viscous insane animals try to wrestler each other down, but neither are successful! This is Beethoven ferocious sort of comedy! As if he is spitting on your faces because he is such full of self glory, too much! Those who had doubted him in the past think that he has gone insane with the music, that they don’t even understand him anymore! But now the world finally understands him after centuries past.
@@ProdigyImprovisation Beethoven was not totally deaf, he could still hear, very low, but he could , that's why he banged the piano so hard and got himself kicked out of hotels in viena for neighbours complains
Ignacio Lago In the past he could hear a bit, but eventually he turned stone deaf in his most later years, he was completely deaf by then already. He didn’t become stone deaf suddenly, but Gradually as he got older & older.
My favorite Beethoven.
This is the greatest piece of music ever written.
Absolutely agree. It monstrous, beautiful and ahead of it's time.
@@paulmuaddib451 Time still hasn't caught-up.
MultiCappie Time will never ever catch up! This will remain timeless for the rest of eternity!
I agree.
Braeden J Of course, everyone’s opinion is different. But what I mean by his music remaining timeless is relating to as something ethereal that nobody cannot repeat once again. The more you experience Beethoven, there is always room to go deeper, once someone can reach the deepest levels of understanding his art, then they can agree that his music goes to places where nobody can. No matter how far the future goes, robots cant create a divine creation, they only copy, adapt, & apply. They can only connect points a to b, but cannot create the actual letters of the alphabet, figuratively speaking.
Aunque no viera a los musicos tocar, igual me daria cuenta de lo dificil de ejecutar esta partitura. Una obra maestra!!!
Auf jeden Fall eins von Beethovens großartigsten Werken. Und hier ausgezeichnet interpretiert. Respekt vor diesem Quartett.
This is the only one Beethoven piece where every note seems wrong and in total chaos. This is Beethoven's way of challenging the tradition of music making to its extreme.
Its si beautiful beethoven can show us the beauty of disonance
Wow - finest performance here, ferocious and full of longing.
WOW! I was just using this to judge my new headphones. But this was just such a great rendition of my all time favorite ditty .
My first exposure to the Grosse Fugue was in 1959 at the International Congress of Strings where we performed it with Roy Harris conducting. Then, as today I am completely blown away by this masterpiece which is rivaled by very few compositions and which I have performed several times many years ago! This piece validifies the goodness of having existed for 81 years.
The cello is adding some real character to the music. Almost like a challenge to the leadership of the first violin. Beautiful interpretation.
3:30 you folks just nailed this rhythmic offset part. Amazing!
Lovely interpretation of one of the greatest pieces of music of all time, Beethoven's last composition before his death, written while he was completely deaf, yet still entirely in touch with the celestial spheres of Music. Perhaps more so than ever. My favorite version of this, perhaps because I grew up with it in my youth, is the now defunct and unavailable Italiano Quartet, a wild and woolly passionate explosion of a performance from the late 60s or early 70s, at a time of superb acoustic record production. This version is almost as passionate, in its way, but more classical in its execution.
That was intense
This rendition makes the piece a lot more interesting to listen to. I actually love it, but when you let others listen to it don’t expect the same level of interest.
“The composer was completely deaf when he wrote this!”
“Yeah I can hear that!”
Dat is de muziek van de toekomst, van de 23ste eeuw. Niemand kan Beethoven overtreffen, alleen God als hij bestaat. En wat een fantastische uitvoering, bravo!
The greatest piece of music ever, expression and beauty at its most
Beethoven set a challenge to muaicians with this piece. I''ve watched a lot of performances of it and this is by far the best. Genius.
A simply wonderful interpretation of a master work. Bravo!
I almost died in the trill passage.
The bowing of the first violin is pretty different, adding to the brilliant interpretation.
For me this piece is one of the finest achievements of the human brain...and given a fine performance. Thank you to hollowchatter.
Bravisimo Maestro! Las fluctuaciones de la fuerza hechas música; dolor, caos, angustia, pero al final la victoria. Cuánto espero conocer a Beethoven en la eternidad en donde existe la paz de Dios.
incredible version
what a beautiful performance
It is because of the absolute masterpiece that I say Ludwig is my favorite Modern composer
I totally agree. It is amazing what a time span musically his oeuvre covers: starting with solid classicism through romanticism all the way to pure modernism. Also you might find it interesting that Robert Greenberg calls Beethoven the first modern composer.
super guys! Noch mit Heimchen! Total inspirierend!
Beethoven, Único!!!
Soberbio!!!
Solo los que sabemos apreciar o tratar de comprender esta pieza Sabes que Algo poderoso se manifiesta
Fantastic!
Fantastic
They were all quite good for an up and coming quartet.
Der Sieg des menschlichen Geistes über die Materie. Etwas, das ich grundsätzlich ausschliesse und selbstverständlich nicht für möglich halte. Und doch... :-)
bravo!
Well, playing this for my orchestra gonna be.... yes
대위법의 극치 : 베토벤의 대푸가
Por dios!!!!!en que estado mental tenes que estar para hacer semejante maravilla!!!!😢😢😢😢
W.O.W.
El cerebro debe adaptarse para capturar la grandeza, belleza, de esta magna obra. Al escucharla en reiteradas ocaciones he logrado algún avance. Espero comprender, un poco más
i'm too high for this
NEVER !
Muy bueno
8:45 Like the down bows.
Una lucha tiránica con dios y el ser humano maravilloso
¡Cuanto dolor!
베토벤도 미친거 같고 이 연주자들도 미친거 같네... 마음속에서 일어난 갈등을 어떻게 음악으로 표현했지?
💕💕💕💕💕
this is what going crazy sounds like.
If it's possible for me to get any crazier than I am already then I'd much rather it sounded like this rather than Berio!
Intensity does NOT matter, if the interpretation is not correct. They have no choice but to play like robots who try to obey their leader. Just like Hitler and his army, when they took crystal meth to perform like machines. This is not how Beethoven wants it, Beethoven is a machine, but he has compassion, instead of a machine, the more appropriate word to say what Beethoven was, a monster! But also the most humble person in the universe, not everything has to be ferocious just to be entertaining. This side of Beethoven is only required when necessary, of certain life expectancies & conditions where he fights a war in his head! Not everything is about violence, but everybody does goes through it in certain times of your life! So it is part of human nature! But with Beethoven’s humanity, he can be the ends of both worlds, the most humble yet the most aggressive!!
It does sound like jazz, strongly in parts and it also sounds like a direct influence on Gershwin. In no way saying, Gershwin nicked the music...but inspiration has to come from somewhere and and I'd say this is an influential piece.
By the way... though some string pieces by Beethoven are in the words of the late George Martin, for some people. "dry as dust," this fuge is one just about anyone will love. Though apparently it was INTENSELY disliked in its own time.
This is not created by human...
this can only be created by human...
Sounds like 20th century music. He was beyound his time
5:03 When Shostakovich plays Beethoven.
Honestly I cannot understand this piece. No question it is composed ahead of it's time with the strongly atonal motifs, but I think it is far too musically complex for normal people
Yes, very complex, but I love it. You're right, is is ahead of its time, has an early 20th century feel to it. I'm not a fan of 20th century, but this wins my heart and tapping foot!
I also had to listen to it a few times.
The motif is absolutely beautiful, the way he throws it around and changes the environment of the motif into futuristic directions is magnificent and the way he manages to make it atonal without losing the control over the composition is something just a genius like Beethoven could do.
And the rhythm is absolutely fantastic.
I'm not very sophisticated when it comes to music and it may be that I've just written down a load of nonsense, but this is one of my favorite pieces.
It's the pure essence of the special feeling Beethovens pieces have sometimes.
Lile for example during the first movement of the Kreutzer Sonate when the part starts in which the piano takes comes further into the foreground and the violinist starts to pizzicato.
Or in the whole first movement of the Appassionata.
Or the third movement of Pathetique.
Or the second movement of the fifth Symphony.
Sorry, due to my lack in English skills and sophistication, I cannot describe this any further.
Listen to the Alban Berg Quartet playing this piece. Their performance is less raucous and they seem to make sense of it.
I don't know much about music, to be honest, but this piece kicks ass. Probably speaks to my fractured brain, or possibly my latent musical genius, idk. hahaha.
@@laurenhahn101 Yes!!! An excellent contrast to this, but honestly I can't say which is better right now.
From the creator of 'Fur Elise'.
Für Elise
It sounds like strings on delay pedal...
Si no lo escuchas no te lo crees.
Would this be considered Classical or Romantic???
Neither classical nor romantic. It is so modern that it is out of any time and any style. It's a musical UFO.
@@JoelLeBras well, it did inspire Schoenberg to write twelve tone music.
@@jhanbury1968 That's what I thought 5 minutes ago, exactly! :)
Musica che sara' sempre contemporanea!!
Appartiene a una dimensione oltre il tempo.
I heard somewhere that this is the worst Beethoven composition... Is that true? I mean, I actually can't really understand what's happening. It sounds strange for me, like, it looks like the music is completely random. Tell me anyone what's up with this composition, please. :]
Layout Games You heard that from the movie Copying Beethoven. Yes there actually been rumors in Beethoven’s time that this is not just the worst music ever written but a music for a deaf man who’s gone literally crazy! Since the world hasn’t listen to such music, they never understood it in Beethoven’s own time.. But in fact, rather than this being the worst music ever written, it is the most greatest music ever written of all time! Nothing comes close to this as this is where art itself comes to an end.
It's nice being lost sometimes and when in good hands.
3:15 tranquila vieja vas a romper el violin
argentino?
viva la Patria
lmao they get brain damage r are they head banging
Manca di energia. Deve essere più graffiante.
"Oh, die Ochsen, die Esel!"
La verdad, no entiendo 😢.