Anton Bruckner, String Quintet in F major, HD live-recording

[@janetkenny1974]

Only his music. No grandeur. Just introspective beauty.

[@jeffreyadams648]

One of the great masterpieces of all time. Just stick with it. Heaven.

[@mr-wx3lv]

Bruckner could have done so much more than he did. He used up so much time revising his works. He decides to write a chamber work. Which is right up there with those of Brahms and Schubert. And incredibly forward thinking for the time it was written. Thanks for uploading...

[@annmccutchan2893]

I hadn't much cared for Bruckner until a friend recommended I listen to this work. Wow! Superb.

[@pietalpha2]

What a line up of top-class musicians! It must have been a privilege to have been in the audience there

[@conw_y]

Wasn't expecting much from a Bruckner quintet, but this blew me away. Was listening to it while doing some software diagramming and I really got "in the zone"! Might have just been the performers (bravo!), but then again, it does feel really Brucknerian, with the "ostinato-crescendos".

[@nickbamber268]

Yes, the ostinato crescendos are amongst the moments where Bruckner wished he had an orchestra.

[@BrucknerMotet]

I'll take ostinato-crescendos all day long. I'm just thankful there aren't aren't any of those subito fortes that you sometimes find in his symphonies that, like an unexpected and overly-near fire alarm, nearly deafen a headphone wearer savoring the quiet beauty built up during one of his slow, majestic decrescendos.

[@uncawizard]

In Gabriel Marquez's "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," a novella that relates a tender love story and not at all what the title suggests, the narrator (a music critic) praises this work, saying that it is the finest piece Bruckner ever wrote.

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Malcolm Glass "saying that it is the finest piece he ever wrote". This has always been my opinion too. I suspect andreas helling may have hit the nail on the head when he says "written probably *ON* organ but *FOR* string quintet." 5 tremendous musicians here. On other clips from Delft 1st violin has sometimes been Liza Ferschtman, other times it has been Alina Ibragimova. Here Ibragomova is on 2nd violin but it isn't really any kind of 'relegation' because the 2nd violin has great importance in this work - she is a fabulous musician.

[@theLUCYCOWAN]

That was absolutely beautiful, thankyou so much ❤️

[@mrsneaky2010]

Great work! has all the Bruckner traits, quirkey key changes, bold harmonies and a divine slow movement. A symphony in miniature??

[@elgatosucio]

Beautiful performance. Awesome 1st violin.

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Di tutto Bruckner, la composizione mia più prediletta!

[@ckalliontzis]

A very fine interpretation of Bruckner's [1824-1896] string quintet, who also wrote a string quartet in addition to a rondo (quartet) and intermezzo (quintet) . Bruckner the famous composer of impressive Symphonies [ 9 + "Die Nullte" + Study Symphony (1863) ] did not write any further string chamber music, a rather unfortunate fact for us the classical music devotees.

[@manuelcuellar800]

Me hundo en sueños pasados con esa hermosa música, exelentes exponentes

[@DornGeorg]

1st violin Liza Ferschtman 2nd violin Alina Ibragimova 1st viola Amihai Grosz 2nd viola Gijs Kramers cello Anne Gastinel

[@wuillymay8815]

Bravo. I loved that 2nd Violin was a heart.

[@andreashelling3076]

Finally a performance where to find a meaning in every bar in this very complex work, symphonyc written probably on organ but for string quintett:)

[@nickbamber268]

More likely written on Bruckner's Boesendorfer.

[@gyrocompa]

At 22:23, does someone else find some similarity with Verklärte Nacht, by Schönberg ?

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Gyrocompa I do believe you're right. Good call! 👍

[@gyrocompa]

Thank you for your answer ! As we say in French : "Les grands esprits se rencontrent" (great minds meet together). I'm not sure about the translation, but I suppose Schönberg and Bruckner can be considered as great minded people !

[@samuelpoblete6861]

also Alpine Symphony of Strauss...

[@robertfrankgill5962]

@@gyrocompa "Great minds think alike"

[@ROBINdulce]

¿Qué edad tenían cuando se enteraron que #AntonBruckner2024 #Bruckner200 compuso un quinteto de cuerdas? 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻

[@wuillymay8815]

Bravissimo!

[@OliJono]

27:45 Such a powerful passage!

[@mithrandir2006]

Sounds like a Sun rising in a neighborhood, the adagio.

[@Jivanmuktishu]

If you love Bruckner as I do you will listen "architectonically" filling the parts with orchestra. I call this a failed symphony, but a failed _Bruckner_ symphony, the best there is. YTube has a symphonic version in its hyperGlorious Files.

[@stevelabonne8332]

Two commercials interrupting the divine Adagio. Criminal.

[@24classicsvideo]

sorry to hear that! we'll try to stop that rude interruption!

[@wuillymay8815]

@@24classicsvideo Appreciate it. Thank you for sharing this amazing music.

[@joemancini2988]

Kind of abrupt ending. Would have been nice to hear some applause.

[@jiyujizai]

😮🍏💙🌻

[@Tracotel]

"Heifetz vibrato" does not really fit to Bruckner's music...

[@mrsneaky2010]

But you’ll always get that with modern interpretations of romantic era music. Bruckner despite all his originality and quirks was a romantic composer..

[@johnrandolph6121]

If it doesn't belong in high romanticism, where does it belong?

[@eugenetzigane]

@@johnrandolph6121 Good Question! The Heifetz vibrato is from the Franco-Belgian School of the early 1900's. Ysaÿe and Kreisler are good early examples. That spread through the conservatory system in which students who were trained as soloists would end up joining orchestras and play without changing their vibrato. In contrast, during the High and Late-Romantic era, vibrato was still an ornament. If you're interested, there are some fascinating contemporary sources including the treatises by Joseph Joachim, Leopold Auer, Ferdinand David among others. Also check out the recordings of Joachim', Auer, and Arnold Rose, the latter who was the concertmaster of the Vienna Phil during the time of Richter, Mahler and until the Nazi Anschluss (1881-1938). Keep in mind these recordings are of artists generally past their prime but the style is still preserved in aspic.

[@othmanmajid6380]

Bruckner was Kreislers harmony teacher.....vibrato positive

[@Tracotel]

@@othmanmajid6380 The question is absolutely not about non vibrato versus vibrato, but what kind of vibrato, how much and where in the music/phrase. Vibrato is an expressive tool amongst others.

[@mrJohnDesiderio]

Man, those monks really did a number on that old pervert. My apologies to Bruckner fans, but over the years I have given this old creep a fair listen but enough is enough-I just can’t take this ! Toscanini was right when he said he’d never again wanted to perform the music of a man who never made love to a woman. And by that, I sure he meant never made love at all. Musicians are great, though. I feel sorry for the audience. Hot auditorium and Bruckner--ugh!

[@robertfrankgill5962]

John Desiderio But how do you know he was chaste? Have any men, women, boys, girls, goats or others ever come forward and said "I too offered myself to Mr Bruckner and he turned me down"? I mean, do any of these spurned would-be partners appear on KZbin? And if it's in print, who wrote it? If not, what you say must remain apocryphal. Is it just you and Toscanini? Mind you, I haven't checked Wikipedia yet, allegedly...

[@mrsneaky2010]

John Desiderio so you deliberately clicked on this video to grace us with those wise comments!! You really think you have to make love to a woman to know how to write emotional music!? 😏

[@robertfrankgill5962]

@@mrsneaky2010 He's just lost his virginity at the age of 47 and wants to show off about it. :-) edit: Allegedly

[@robertfrankgill5962]

John Desiderio Well there he is. Anton Bruckner. On one point I'm sure we can agree. There was nobody to touch him.

[@christianspillemose4074]

LOL. Yeah, that old chauvinist pig really must have hated Tchaikowsky!