Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 "Serioso" - Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra - HD

[@violinhunter2]

Herrlich.

[@aureliocivetta3919]

Sempre stupiti dinnanzi a questo genio

[@WSmogpule]

Silly question: if it's a "quartet", why are there twenty players?

[@rameyzamora1018]

Right on. Wouldn't this sound awesome as a quartet?

[@violinhunter2]

@@rameyzamora1018 🙂 Are you serious?

[@LucienMarine]

This String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 by Beethoven is his last before his last exalted string quartets. It is one of the shortest and most compact of all the quartets by the German master in character and tonality, as well as in the presence of a frenetic final section in the parallel major, he is getting closer to another composition from Beethoven's median period, the overture to his incidental music for Goethe's drama Egmont. The autograph manuscript of this quartet bears the inscription « October 1810 », but the paper on which it appears does not correspond to the variety that Beethoven is known to have used at this time. It is very likely that he completed it much later. It was created in 1814 and was not printed until two years after because this piece would have out of the ordinary in 1810: It is an exercise in the composition techniques that the composer would draw on later in his life. Techniques such as shorter developments, interesting use of rests, metric ambiguity, seemingly unrelated outbursts, and greater freedom in the tonality of his sonata form. Opus 95 represents a singular contraction of form into a dense and concentrated work where everything is reduced to a drastic, but essential, minimum. Besides its predominant minor key and its often urgent, even violent mood, it was this relentless reduction of means that must have led Beethoven to give the quartet its own multifaceted title « Quatuor Serioso ». *Lucien*

[@Ohmereb]

Un quatuor à cordes est un quatuor à cordes. C'est vrai, la composition est conçue pour 4 instruments,ici c'est le cauchemar musical 😢😢😢