Alberto Ginastera - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26 (1958)

[@mateushayasaka]

- I need relax, can you play some classical music for me?" - Sure...

[@sonder152]

Wait till you hear Varese and Xenakis

[@LavaMLG]

Ginastera really brings out the extent of how violent strings can sound especially in the fist and last movements

[@slateflash]

20:53 to 21:00 sounds different from what's printed. In fact every time that theme appears it's printed differently. Is this a different version? I never even knew another version of the last movement existed!

[@CuartetoLatAm]

We play the revised (1968) version. I heard that the composer was adamant that the original version was discarded, as it contained some "folkloristic" sections, which he no longer tolerated in his later compositional style.

[@joshscores3360]

@@CuartetoLatAm Are you the original performers? Bravissimo!

[@CuartetoLatAm]

@@joshscores3360 Thank you!

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

Ah yes. This is the music that wakes me up in the morning!

[@marcusanthonyPOV]

lmao

[@nicolaskingman1068]

Is it me or do they play an altered ending?

[@torterrakart7249]

The theme at 23:29 seems extremely familiar to me. Is it from Bartók or another Ginastera work?

[@sneddypie]

it indeed does sound like something bartok would write

[@hadenplouffe3976]

This whole movement is a version of the finale to Concerto for Strings, so they share themes in that sense!

[@nicolaskingman1068]

Harp Concerto finale?

[@vicenteplazaurzua6190]

Recicla muchas partes del concierto para arpa

[@dacoconutnut9503]

Wait a second, isn't this theme (15:15) the same as the one that opens his Concerto for Strings?

[@peenut169]

The Concerto for Strings is basically a rearranged version of the quartet. Ginastera took out the first movement and switched the places of the latter four.

[@tomyamartino]

I usually don't go for modern sounding music, but that presto is ravishing!

[@miguelalvarezmartinez3012]

Lo estaba esperando. ¡Muchas gracias!

[@dondondon786]

I prefer the original version oh this piece: as written by Bela Bartok!

[@bartjebartmans]

So..?

[@slateflash]

I would LOVE to hear a recording of the original version of this last movement, as it's printed here!

[@nicolaskingman1068]

It shares lots of material with the Harp Concerto.

[@Twentythousandlps]

An exciting piece - even more so in Ginastera's transcription of it, the Concerto for Strings.

[@slateflash]

Love the tone rows in the 2nd movement

[@jimmywalsh6701]

😎

[@machida5114]

so good...

[@Trombosilbo]

Its like heavy metal

[@johnoldland7841]

Heavy metal was influenced by certain heavy rock of ~1970 such as Fripp and they were inspired by Bartok quartets as was Ginastera

[@rubenmolino1480]

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