Antonin Dvořák - String Quintet in Eb major, Op. 97.

Live from 2017 Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival. International Program Artists
Danny Koo and Jeremías Sergiani-Velázquez, Violins
Alexander Hersh, Cello
Ramón Carrero Martínez and Jenni Seo, Violas

[@drowsytomato]

00:08 - I 09:15 - II 15:22 - III 25:40 - IV

[@MatheusSantos999]

The second movemente sounds so magic and "the new world will be much better"

[@telephilia]

Defy you on listening to this to not tap your toes.

[@vanderkarbargenbok558]

Great performance of my all time favorite chamber music work! Thanks folks!

[@elaines5750]

My favorite piece of chamber music.

[@daviewavie112]

Elaine S what makes it your favorite?

[@elaines5750]

@@daviewavie112 The love of a certain musical composition can often defy description by mere words, so perhaps it's the opening 2nd viola solo in pentatonic, or the general energy and beauty of the piece or how the parts feed off each other or the variety of melodies just within the first few minutes of the first movement! I can't put my finger on exactly one thing that I love about this piece, so I guess just everything about it makes it my favorite, well, plus, Dan Koo was in my student orchestra many years ago. Very talented musician. All of these musicians are!

[@elaines5750]

@Thomas Boushier This has been my favorite piece of chamber music for 50 years.

[@ziadelganainy7246]

So beautiful ensemble, great musicians 👍🏻❤️

[@andreasviolinjourney]

OMG!! What have I just listened to!?? This is remarkably beautiful. I only knew Dvorak's cello concerto, I had no idea he composed something so good like this. I'm amazed.

[@cloudydays6732]

So beautiful! ❤️

[@fritzsonnichsen7853]

Gosh that made me happy! Wonderful playing and expression all the way!

[@robertcohn8858]

Beautiful tone, balance and execution. What a great piece to start out the day. Many thanks for this great performance.

[@maxfochtmann9576]

Комплименты, ребята. Первым слышал эту драгоценность. Спасибо за запись.

[@ilizwipoetry8107]

This is really exciting chamber work!💙 Well done guys👏

[@gpcrawford8353]

Dvorak wrote this while on a “busmans holiday “ in Spillsvill Iowa amongst the Czech community there during this time a troop of native Indians came into town and this is where he got rhythm of the 2nd movement from. If I’m wrong I stand corrected.

[@NoMoreMrNiceGuyNYC]

You're wrong. There is nothing "Native American" about the rhythms or the harmonies- they're all Czech and built on the pentatonic scale as well as traditional European harmony. The third movement is a theme and variations on "My Country 'Tis of Thee," about as American as you can get. The whole "Indian" thing is a myth. And a lil' racist.

[@karlzaenker6418]

Absolutely amazing playing of a wonderful piece!

[@janandrea]

Wonderful recording! It's such a joy to see musicians having fun with a piece

[@penmerch2804]

The violinist 2nd left it HOT!

[@alexanderhersh]

Good times man! I miss this! Hope all is well!

[@ramonviolist]

I hope you are doing well too man! Definitely good times! I hope we get to play again soon!

[@alexanderhersh]

@@ramonviolist YES dude! We gotta make it happen!

[@telephilia]

Virtually unknown next to his other so-called "American" works (the New World Symphony, and even the American Quartet), it's as good (or better) than both. The relative anonymity is due to quintets (unlike symphonies and quartets) being not a standard genre and are created by a quartet essentially hiring a "temp" extra instrumentalist. Yet many quintets, such as Mozart's, the Schubert and the Brahms are among chamber music's finest works in any form.

[@unaffiliateduser8995]

Indeed. Many quintets lie in the shadow of their four-player counterparts.

[@unaffiliateduser8995]

Im suprised David Young hasn't reached this recording yet.

[@davidyoung6331]

Got it. So here's the deal. At precisely 11:48 the violist plays a double stop (two notes at the same time) in a melody where at every other instance there is just one not played. It sounds "out of place" to me. In listening to about 25 KZbin performances of this quintet, there are two where the violist does not play the double stop. The rest do. There is no question that the score and part indicate the double stop. My theory is that the score and parts are in error. Perhaps a smudge on the autograph manuscript made the copyist think that Dvoralk wanted two notes to be played. This isn't the first time a copyist altered a Dvorak score. In the last movement of Dvorak's opus 96 string quartet (The American) there is a two-measure section where the violist plays the wrong rhythm. It doesn't sound bad, and there is one professional quartet, aware of the error, who indicated to me that they preferred the error. But it is an error, none-the-less (my source is an editor at Henle). The error is found in Kalmus scores. And the error is in the part and not in the score. My hunch is that this is an error as well, although it appears in both score and parts. I do not have access to the autograph manuscript or the person who does hold it, so, for now, it is just my hunch. To me, it sounds "out of place." I invite you to start at 11:40 and listen through to 11:55 and tell me if you find the double stop at 11:47-11:48 to sound right.

[@davidyoung6331]

As I mentioned, there are two performances on KZbin where the double stop was not played. There were professional string quartets with an added professional violist. They must agree with me.

[@user-kz9tx9rs6d]

콰르텟 곡을 퀸텟으로 연주했길래 큰 기대를 가지고 봤는데... 콰르텟 연주에서 흔히 볼 수 있는 각 악장별 두드러진 특징이 사라지고, 그냥 밋밋한 연주가 돼버린 느낌입니다. 그래도 전체적으로 아름답긴 하네요. 감사합니다!