Danish String Quartet plays Beethoven quartet no. 15 in A minor, op. 132, 3rd mov. (Molto adagio)

[@lindastrauss1842]

When it can’t get any more sublime, it gets more sublime.

[@Hobbs-Bagley]

In my near 7th decade of listening to music, I am compelled to declare this performance, this interpretation to be the best I have ever encountered of this highly emotive and personal movement of the A minor quartet. Your articulations by each player, the sensitive accents and timing pull me beck to this performance over and over. Nine better! Thank you for your musicianship and for your contribution to the beauty and depth of Beethoven.

[@danishquartet]

Thanks Timothy! Highly appreciated ♥️

[@roycelassley5759]

They were wonderful. But have you ever heard Brentano Quartet! They have the most perfect sound in every character they perceive(the most incredible bow arms for stylization! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp28qqmDppWhY5I:36

[@coletteleroy9299]

❤

[@roybrewer7865]

yes. I agree.

[@mendyviola]

I can’t help but to cry every time I listen to this piece. It has carried me though loved ones sicknesses and deaths. I want this played at my memorial.

[@TheShadowfakx]

For years have felt, thought the same. We are blessed with these notions.

[@JochenVogel]

Same here.

[@clarab3249]

I feel the same

[@johns4571]

Well, Ludwig, you got this absolutely right !

[@patriciahill1101]

It doesn't matter how many times I listen to this it always transports me into a higher place. This music was composed, and is being played...not to replace the world, but to make the world bearable and even transcendent.

[@toiletjunpaper]

You have a good music taste

[@Dutchy_JD87]

‘You are not only you, you are the universe’ 🌅

[@HelenJoannides]

Me too. it gives to me new life, heals me. I think Beethoven was communicating with angels when he wrote this.

[@adelasussman3838]

Beautifully and eloquently stated! I so agree!!

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

"Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine, under every grief and pine runs a joy with silken twine". Augeries of innocence, William Blake.

[@bobmccarthy5022]

A great comparison - Blake and Beethoven.

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

@@bobmccarthy5022 I believe that both Blake and Beethoven in their greatest works introduce a third element , a force , like joy and woe are woven fine , which unifies disparate elements within a mind that thinks in terms of opposites. We very rarely , if ever see the third neuterlizing force. That which is not "yes" or "no." But that which is "yes" AND "no." When this occurs one's consciousness is heightened to unknown levels. Please see a poem by Mina Loy , beginning with the lines , "there is no life or death , only activity. Here all the opposites become unified

[@joelagee900]

. . . under every grief and pine . . .

[@wendygordon9703]

Thank you. I go now to read Blake.

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

@@joelagee900 Merci beaucoup

[@alexanderteachernyc]

This glorious performance deserves not to be interrupted by a commercial.

[@pr0nkj3wail]

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[@danishquartet]

You are right. Warner Music has claimed the rights for this performance and the algoritm thinks it’s a recording by Artemis string quartet (we are flattered!) But we will try to sort this out quickly!

[@ChristopherBrooks_kenor]

The Danish are the best quartet: only vibrato when necessary. The choral is heavenly.

[@machida5114]

The most beautiful melody on the history of Western classical music.

[@Mukundanghri]

This melody is transcendental. There is no comparison to the atima this music depicts.

[@Alix777.]

There's no melody because Beethoven has never been able to write a good one

[@erikgeiger6601]

@@Alix777. Okay then, the most beautiful 16 note motive in Western classical music. Is that better?

[@satosmi9408]

@@Alix777. I bet you never know more than 15 Beethoven pieces. If all the late passages fail to please you melodically, I would be very impressed 😂

[@Alix777.]

@@satosmi9408 I know most of his catalogue and played several works. So ? That doesn't change the fact that he's a bad melodist, and a minor composer.

[@Alasgar.G]

Thank you Danish String Quartet for this performance, listening to this masterpiece from Azerbaijan!

[@classicaltony1]

14:49 and beyond is as close as I'll ever get to heaven on this earth. This entire piece and this interpretation is as transcendent as anything in this world.

[@Nightblaze20]

This is the most beautiful music!! It’s like someone is washing my brain.... cleaning out all negativity and other impurities.

[@custardapplejazz]

I agree. This is like a hymn glorifying God. I am listening to this after a difficult day.

[@Alix777.]

Boring and dull like everything this overrated composer ever wrote

[@billcomstock3721]

Such a moving interpretation. It was like listening to somebody praying.

[@Assalariado762]

This movement is like a prayer(A) followed by the strengthening response of God(B) --- (A.B.A2.B.A3) And when the theme last appears(A3) we are healed.

[@kenoliver8913]

This is what Beethoven intended - he wrote it after a near-fatal illness. The (A) part is labelled "Holy Thanksgiving" in the score; the (B) part is labelled "feeling new strength". In Aldous Huxley's "Point Counterpoint" novel there is a scene where someone tries to convince an atheist of the existence of God simply by playing a record of this movement. That is credible.

[@juergensteiniger5118]

Mit diesem Quartett ist Beethoven etwas ganz Besonderes gelungen, das wohl auch in seinem gesamtem Werk einzig ist. Unsere Bewunderung könnte nicht größer sein…Ein Dank an die Musiker für ihre wundervolle Interpretation.

[@hymnodyhands]

I return to this movement after many years, in a moment of gratitude to God as I realized how He brought me through some SITUATIONS ... as relief and new strength came into me, I remembered this piece, and this recording is the one that best matched with my memory ... thank you so much for this sensitive and beautifully paced interpretation!

[@patriciahill1101]

Prayer and then exultation at prayer being answered. Really the most sublime music I know.

[@danishquartet]

We too!

[@Ivan_1791]

I have dropped many tears listening to this recording. Thank you kindly.

[@williamhicks2299]

Daring, mystical, revelatory! The greatest string quartet ensemble before the public today.

[@ispeedonthe405]

This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful performances of this piece that I've ever heard. It can't be easy to express such passion and subtlety simultaneously. I'm certain Beethoven would be smiling if he could see and hear this. Thank you for sharing it with those of us who weren't there to see it done live.

[@tannhaeuserx464]

Beethoven's greatest Adagio.

[@wastelanded3]

Maybe someone can explain how these guys get such *resonance*! No one sounds like them; you can hear the wood, it's like the music is alive and breathing. The last notes in their Cavatina make all the hair on my neck stand up.

[@Ian24s]

The depth of the man is unfathomable ! Awesome witnessing you chaps wrestling with it. Kudos to the camera people.

[@RyanZakMusic]

played with reverence. thank you.

[@anthonyabbott90]

To see the world in a grain of sand. Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand: Eternity in an hour. W.Blake. In this Molto Adagio time stops and everything is ONE eternally.

[@diblasic]

Mindblowing! The most incredible sustained sound. Masterful bow work, subtle feints of phrase. The most peaceful breathing timing. Every consonance shimmers like crystal and you milk every dissonance. My dad is in hospice - I thought of this piece, and was so grateful to find that you have posted such an exquisite rendition.

[@danishquartet]

Thank you so much Christine. Our thoughts are with you and your father!

[@1perykles]

The strangest interpretation I have heard and in my opinion a complete misunderstanding of the piece. I will remain silent about this baroque raid of palace art. The point is an explosion of bitterness interspersed with nostalgia, not a mixture of a funeral march and a rural idyll.

[@alexpaget7482]

Funny way to remain silent. Imagine reducing this piece to your anodyne similes. Imagine reducing it to words at all.

[@pkrones]

Yes, I have heard 3 renditions so far, and this is the best. You describe it well. May your father have passed into this exquisite world of sound.

[@nrosen8794]

I dunno. I am usually not a fan of non vibrato, but these guys are good. And about "bitterness", this music will always bring out one's own personal feelings. Bitterness is an unwelcome guest at my table and I do not look for it in this music. I would suggest that you take the words "Holy Song of Thanksgiving" and give credence to Beethoven's title.

[@jan-pietervanwaasbergen9870]

It is such great music, this piece of music, I listen to it a thousand times and every time it moves me, that is what music, Beethoven does and so very good played bij Danish String Quartet, I heard you playing in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam a couple of years ago, that was an unforgettable concert. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, greetings from the Netherlands

[@HelenJoannides]

I have never enough to hear this divine music. Always! but especially after suffering. You play it so beautifully. Thank you so much dear danish quartet.

[@maryfrancherry1490]

This quartet sat next to us in a United Airlines flight from Dulles to Newark with their instruments. One had his cello in the seat next to him. When our plane was delayed, we couldn't talk them into doing a performance fo r us right there in the airport. Would love to see them in person.

[@blur-blade4981]

Such a good performance - closest to perfection I’ve heard, each player excellent and in perfect time with each other.

[@andrewb9974]

Superb...you could hear a pin drop with that kind of gentleness

[@thaddeusdubois6209]

Gorgeous in every way possible......

[@nikosblaxabas5338]

the absolutely most sacred amen ever written ... what a moving performance.. ❤

[@JochenVogel]

Thank You, thank You, thank You for recording my favourite piece of music! And for playing it like You do!

[@DavidWilliamRose]

Gentlemen....just want you to know that this performance gave me tremendous strength and hope. Loved it beyond measure..... and reaching back into the past, the Stamitz viola concerto with the Centipede costume still makes me laugh, whenever it comes to mind. Thanks for sharing this sublime performance, and doing all that you do.

[@danishquartet]

Thanks David! The contrast between the two performances could not be bigger :) All the best to you! /DSQ

[@lichenthrope__]

One of my favorite recordings of one of my favorite Beethoven movements by one of my favorite quartets!! This made my day.

[@martincaracoche4657]

Agree!

[@bobmccarthy5022]

Pure beauty

[@firmansyahreksowibowo2381]

my best piece of music from beethoven !!

[@AlanBeck-sg4yq]

Blessed, beloved Beethoven.

[@scottfraser9271]

Like so many people, I have always loved this music. Your version, however, surpasses anything I have ever heard. Thank you so much for this beautiful and moving rendition.

[@danishquartet]

Thank you so much Scott!

[@charliecarroll5669]

What a wonderful performance! Such rich tone and sensitivity

[@oscargranda5385]

El sonido del Padre Universal!!!!!

[@telephilia]

Beautiful, could bring one to tears.

[@TroelsNybo1st]

I sit and hum the cello line, letting it caress my voice and my mind...

[@水倉新六]

Danish String Quartet が創る和音は、すぐれて透明で、この作品だけが生み出す不協和な音空間も構成して、素晴らしい。

[@kedemberger8773]

Huge risk taking which pays off spectacularly well. Kudos. Im certain thats the way it was meant to be played.

[@水倉新六]

音色が独立することで、響きの空間を受容させている美感覚。

[@fredericolourenco1972]

There simply aren't words to describe how incredibly beautiful this performance is.

[@clifbalderas7768]

A beautiful and emotive performance of Beethovens masterpiece.❤❤❤❤

[@dagnijapachai7026]

Heavenly 🤍

[@teresaloureiro2525]

... this is the BEST INTERPRETATION of this PIECE , as I PERCEIVE it ... INTENSITY with EQUILIBRIUM . with SECURITY , without TREMBLING , without EXITATION . and COORDINATION AMONG THEM . chapeau .

[@barbarafrancini3980]

Shameful DISGUSTING ads interrupting this heavenly music deserve HANGING

[@maureenviola]

Pay for premium

[@user-dd6ng1wn1b]

I am a long time fan of the DQ, but just discovered this. How nice. Beautifully played, and not an obvious choice for KZbin. Great camerawork too. Nice to watch during the quarantine.

[@alexpaget7482]

I came to this piece through Aldous Huxley's Point Counterpoint. My favourite writer led me to my favourite piece of music. Tears streaming as i listen and type. Thank you, thank you, to all.

[@水倉新六]

すばらしい演奏。4人のココロが美しい。

[@darioalbertini88]

You guys are really up there with the Lindsays...what a sound, what a harmony amongst the instruments, what a feeling. I'm really, really speechless.

[@S1CKMON]

what a piece of music! brilliante playing

[@InstrumentManiac]

Such fantastic playing!! You guys are a major inspiration, the bowing is so in sync it is like the bellows of an organ - your folk album is on constant rotation when I work in Excel at my desk job. Keep it up the great playing! -Luke from Minnesota

[@danishquartet]

Thank you so much Luke! ♥️

[@水倉新六]

4人が創る和音。驚くほどに、作曲の意図になっている。美しい。

[@tractotus]

Great performance of the greatest & most profound music ever written for string quartet!

[@JuanL8pez]

De verdad sublime

[@michael-davidarrkerns4799]

No words. Magnificent...magnificent.

[@estkall]

Sublime! 😭😭👏👏❤️❤️

[@jonathanfrank1073]

Absolute perfection. Thank you

[@580bulldog]

I almost cry. Thank you

[@custardapplejazz]

I am so happy to have discovered you on NPR Tiny Desk. Please escape COVID and come to Sydney to perform !

[@musicaljourney2981]

Thrilling experience to the heart and to the senses, by far the best performance I've ever listened of the 3rd movement. Thank you very much!!!

[@love_do]

수십번 반복해서 듣고 있어요. 데니쉬 콰르텟 최고👍👍👍

[@최줄리아나]

데니쉬도 좋지만 일단 알반베르크가 정석이죠

[@roybrewer7865]

I LOVe this!!!!!!

[@barbarabarry3799]

So beautiful, sustained sound. Can you kindly take out the sponsor's message in the middle of the performance as it interrupts the musical thought, perhaps put it at the beginning? Thank you for sharing this.

[@roybrewer7865]

non vib. chords in the opening section are GREAT!!

[@ТатьянаДаншова-б8д]

Господи, какая прекрасная музыка...плачу..❤

[@hazhoner5727]

Simply beuatiful. As it must be

[@franckcoinchelin9862]

une musique aux étoiles portée par une interprétation de grande classe

[@clarab3249]

Wunderbar!! Vielen Dank. 😥

[@술톤윤돼지탄핵]

This is beautiful in a surreal way. One of the best interpretations.. >_

[@mihaelaminulescu]

Thanks, the inner peace and peace aroud...

[@juergensteiniger5118]

Das Zusammenspiel der Musiker ist bewundernswert…Danke für diese Interpretation.

[@MrKurtank]

thank you, I look forward to seeking out your concerts in London, or indeed, anywhere....

[@danishquartet]

Thanks! See you then :)

[@amyhinrichs4519]

So glad you came to the Twin Cities recently….!

[@machida5114]

It is a whole body performance.

[@steffenmrsk4720]

Every note from the heart! Very inspirational! Thank you! 😊

[@Situationists]

Thank you

[@MaxPower-grrl]

Apex human achievement. Bravo!

[@Tracotel]

That is too much beauty. Thanks...

[@guilhermecaldas7358]

Bravo!!!!!

[@archibaldvonrixdorf4627]

überirdisch, danke für diesen reichen Klangkörper, welchen Sie da rauskitzeln, genial.

[@jessicamidon]

Especially needing this recording now. You guys rule.

[@krzysztofcider7123]

Thank you.

[@Bati_]

I'm looking forward to Prism IV and V!

[@roybrewer7865]

That chord/cadence at 2:16~!!!!!! nice!!!!!!

[@RosCharron]

I only came across this movie a few days ago and from the moment I heard this string quartet, I was reduced to tears and spent the movie a sobbing mess every time I heard music come on!

[@antoninobuccheri699]

Grazie un meraviglioso regalo... Un suono che è una vera preghiera di ringraziamento "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" l'attacco del primo Andante "Neue Kraft fühlend" è perfettamente tenuto in equilibrio tra intimismo e forza. Thanks a wonderful gift ... A sound that is a real prayer of thanks "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" the attack of the first Andante "Neue Kraft fühlend" is perfectly balanced between intimacy and strength. I apologize for any errors in the English translated automatically by google translate

[@CHIELITO]

you are the best

[@michaelcondie969]

Among all your group's wonderful qualities, you have an unerring instinct for the appropriate tempo, very critical in this work. It would be very revealing to know how you decide on that. Is it obvious to all right from the beginning, or is it determined only after careful deliberation with every member having a say? Your performance of op. 132 was Carl Baum's favorite version. The two of us tried, but failed, to find another that was competitive. They all came up short in one fashion or another. I'm so looking forward to seeing you perform live again.

[@ROBINdulce]

Estoy escuchando esta entrega del Danish String Quartet y pienso que nos transmite la plegaria de Ludwig van Beethoven al Altísimo: da nobis pacem, como lo hizo en la Missa Solemnis y en la Sonata para piano op. 111: de plano un viaje a las estrellas, por encima de todo mal y de todo peligro, con confianza en el porvenir. Ojalá pronto se reanude el ciclo Prism, en diálogo con Johann Sebastian Bach y compositores del siglo XX: nos urge.

[@oscargranda5385]

Increíble.....siento la misma sensación!!!como lo hacía???? Como escribía esta música???

[@roybrewer7865]

good job fellas!!

[@mcusa77]

Nice thank you.

[@aliemoek8976]

this touches your heart

[@conniekampas7074]

Beautiful ❤️🇺🇸💕

[@michelevolz7769]

Beautiful...