I first heard the Shoshtakovich' Quartet #3 in the early 1960's--on our little Webcore portable phono which resided in the kitchen of our East Village railroad flat--I was ca 21 years old, more or less before stereo. It was a revelation! I lost track of the record when my living arrangements changed, but never forgot the "little tune" that begins Movement 1, whistling it, hearing it my brain, searching always for it. About twenty-years or so later, with the advent of CD's, I found it in J & R's & its opening melody was just as I'd carried around in my head, lo those many years. In neither case do I remember who played it! But now, thirty-five years late still, as I am reading Shoshakovitch memoirs, I decided to find it on KZbin and what a "find," so beautifully played by the Borodin Quartet! That heartbreaking slow movement! The bonanza of such long life.
@Cadenza935 жыл бұрын
great story, it wouldve killed me to wait so long to find the piece that was stuck in my head. One of the great benefits of current technology!
@OmNom12063 жыл бұрын
@@Cadenza93 And I was annoyed when I couldn’t google a song based on the note progression (turned out to be “Gangsta’s Paradise”)
@Rachelnymetal8 жыл бұрын
the Borodin Quartet cycle of the Shostakovich Quartets on EMI are a MUST HAVE in your collection
@robertfrankgill59626 жыл бұрын
Rachel Hilgert Agreed. I bought the boxed set of LPs when it first hit the shops in the UK c1974 or 1975. It only had from 1 to 13, but it wasn't long before EMI released an LP of the Beethoven Quartet playing 14 & 15. I bought the boxed set on the basis of already having a Supraphon recording of this quartet (coupled wth Prokofiev's 1st Quartet). No 3 is still probably my favourite Shostakovich quartet.
@christopherbuilder53542 жыл бұрын
Wholeheartedly agree!!
@TahseenNakavi6 жыл бұрын
It is only this year that I have made a sojourn into Shostakovich's string quartets and I am fortunate that I did that. I have heard fourth, eighth and now the third. I am bowled over by all of them.
@Renee2004lr6 жыл бұрын
Wait till you get to #'s 10 and 11--knock you socks off!
@fabiomino35062 жыл бұрын
@@Renee2004lr 😂 I was about to say “wait till” too
@CoyLadyDDL8 жыл бұрын
So emotionally expressive - 4th movement takes your breath away.
@MrVincent5375 жыл бұрын
Fantastic musicians!!! Such a perfection in everything even in the soundrecording and the balance is unheared even until today. These musicians have surpassed in their musical perfections Oistrach, Menuhin, Casals and Fournier.
@gabrielariasluna84427 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for uploading this(!!). The Borodin quartet (Kopelman, Abramenkov, Shebalin, Berlinsky) playing Shostakovich… In my opinion, a very valuable reference!
@georges.97858 жыл бұрын
Movement 1: 0:00 Movement 2: 6:50 Movement 3: 12:13 Movement 4: 16:35 Movement 5: 23:06
@ulfgj8 жыл бұрын
u could tell the owner of the account to add it to the description of the video.
@ulfgj7 жыл бұрын
cool :D
@bekhbattsagaanchuluun57505 жыл бұрын
George S. B
@IvanGreindl5 жыл бұрын
Dear Richard Markus. Thank you so much for sharing these masterworks. However, I think it would be very useful to put *again* these wonderful recordings (N#3, N#8, ...) on KZbin, -- avoiding this time to cut them so abruptly at the last note. This really is painful for the genuine music-lovers among us. Thank you in advance for this effort. :-)
@richardhering65215 жыл бұрын
You're right - #8 in particular truncates the last note - but I don't possess original versions of the video recordings. I merely rescued them from a deleted account, so they are what they are.
@IvanGreindl5 жыл бұрын
@@richardhering6521 Thanks for your reply.
@tavit.60364 жыл бұрын
@@richardhering6521 could you repost them without the ads though, cuz it is really annoying
@IvanGreindl4 жыл бұрын
@@tavit.6036 Use an AdBlocker!
@anthonywolters76973 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the year and location of this performance? Wonderful recording!
@秀治福島 Жыл бұрын
完成度完璧の歴史的演奏!
@antoniosaavedra78068 жыл бұрын
literally beautiful
@OmarFernandesAly2 жыл бұрын
Sound of the video is very good! Thank you a lot once more!
@lanaostrovsky9984 жыл бұрын
Браво
@stepaushi3 жыл бұрын
Mikhail Kopelman is so stoic (the other's also); it's awesome to watch.
@MegaCirse2 жыл бұрын
You can't exist without pleasure, even for a second, and it's hard to have sorrow for a long time. Such is existence 💃
@urgentmeow8 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff.
@jasmine95814 жыл бұрын
13:19 I was comparing with another performance/video's mvmt 3, came her, pressed an estimated time and only ended up a measure ahead
@hiroshitone97042 жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@OmarFernandesAly2 жыл бұрын
Thank you a lot for this interesting Quartet!
@retf054ewte32 жыл бұрын
they sound so good
@knownanonymous16913 жыл бұрын
I'm an abnormal person, i see Shostakovich's name and i click as fast as possible Lol
@alexphipps49126 жыл бұрын
When was this? I saw these guys play this in Philly in 2013
As pure music, that of DSCH could no doubt be improved. As a communicator, he's without parallel ...
@ShanevsDCsniperr11 ай бұрын
as pure letters on a screen, this comment makes perfect sense. in terms of communicating any meaning at all, it could certainly be improved.
@briangriffin451511 ай бұрын
I suppose I just mean I've always been on the Shostakovich wavelength. I shouldn't assume that everyone else is. Sorry. @@ShanevsDCsniperr
@denalijah67903 жыл бұрын
4:00 viola melody
@Alexx16Z2 жыл бұрын
I have an addiction on 2nd, 3rd and 4rth movement.
@alohayooo4 жыл бұрын
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
@mason111985 жыл бұрын
Edit: this is not to insult the uploader, you need ads, I'm just arguing how ineffective ads become in this application. Ads on classical performances are useless. They just piss me off, and even if I like the product, I am so mad at it that I swear to NEVER buy their product ever.
@yoavshati4 жыл бұрын
The channel wants to profit
@IvanGreindl4 жыл бұрын
Utilisez un bloqueur de pub ! ;-)
@ContemporaryClassical4 жыл бұрын
@@yoavshati The ads are placed by the rights=holders, not this channel. And @Mason Guy you could use an adblocker
@alexpaxton13363 жыл бұрын
install uBlock Origin. I kind of forgot youtube videos have ads
@nocynic3 жыл бұрын
Well, we are enjoying a product and not paying a penny to the performers or the composer. How much of something do you think you are entitled to for nothing?
@santihortiz3 жыл бұрын
4:27
@stuharris89487 жыл бұрын
for a bunch of old geezers they play well 90)
@tonwilmes48897 жыл бұрын
stu harris old WHAT, who are you? In heavens name? Ignorant ass!
@robertfrankgill59626 жыл бұрын
Ton Wilmes _Geezer_ is simply a British (especially London) way of saying guy, chap, bloke or dude. I think Stu was more intent on paying them a compliment. Honestly!
@jamesjoycean6 жыл бұрын
unnecessary
@muslit2 жыл бұрын
Shostakovich did not write one string quartet that could compare to the invention found in Bartok's.
@christopherbuilder53542 жыл бұрын
Whatever man.
@БорисШалагінов2 жыл бұрын
Dear sir, but both composers have completely different quartet styles!
@muslit2 жыл бұрын
@@БорисШалагінов I'm talking about invention, not style.
@patrickdinnen92372 жыл бұрын
Thank god for this comment, so definitive and full of conviction. It must be objectively accurate and not merely the opinion of a troll.
@muslit2 жыл бұрын
@@БорисШалагінов Invention has nothing to do with style.
@muslit5 жыл бұрын
Why the Shostakovich string quartets are rated so highly is a reality that must be corrected soon. The invention is spotty, the part writing leaves much to be desired (not with Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Bartok), and much of the music is just plain boring.
@mason111984 жыл бұрын
nay
@BrucknerMotet4 жыл бұрын
I understand your comment to contain a few typos, and that you originally meant to type: "The DDS quartets are rated so highly. This is a reality THE DENIAL OF WHICH must be corrected soon."
@nocynic3 жыл бұрын
Um...because they are superb compositions, perhaps? No correction necessary; sorry you are impervious to their beauty.
@muslit3 жыл бұрын
@@nocynic Your opinion. The last ones especially are poorly written for a quartet of strings. Measures and measures of drones, while one player plays over them and the other players sit there with their one note. A total waste of a string quartet. Shostakovich became very self-absorbed at the end of his life as his invention bordered on the thinnest of pretenses. Yes, he was preoccupied with death. So was Mahler, so was Britten, so was Beethoven. But their invention blossomed while Shotakovich's withered away.
@warmswarm3 жыл бұрын
@@muslit - I wish you would wither away. If you can't hear their beauty then that's your loss.