Mendelssohn Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 (Complete)

[@aishahosman2465]

Here Bc of TwoSet’s video. I love this piece!

[@perardogerez5258]

same

[@熊美-c4k]

Same here😊

[@danielmcglaun2581]

This may be the best performance of this masterpiece on KZbin, and it will be my go-to for a long time to come. What strikes me is the absolute ensemble, where every musician has the same idea about what is to be done. We do not see the preparation, but we are privileged to share in the result. There is fearlessness in the technique, sparkling brilliance in the execution, concrete steadfastness in the ensemble, and a resolute sameness in style and vision that gives the performance an exquisite cohesiveness from start to finish. The viewer is completely shielded from the amazing virtuosity that's required, and what comes through is simply the amazingness of the music. These musicians have captured that - it is not about them, but about the music! What an amazing and rare accomplishment, and all I want to do when I hear this is get up and dance to it! What an amazing performance. Thank you so much for posting it, and for having performed it. I believe Mendelssohn would approve completely.

[@CookieTheCorgi]

I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco 0:00 II. Andante 14:57 III. Scherzo 22:22 IV. Presto 26:47

[@whistlingglasses8758]

So, no one was an impostor.

[@marjamerryflower]

So you're here too because of twoset violin ;). I needed to hear the real deal too

[@rebekahlee7360]

aMAzINg!

[@wendyln8641]

@@marjamerryflower im here for them too haha

[@emivct]

ahauhauahauah 🤣

[@karlaeronb.balingit3259]

Lol

[@tomboyer5608]

Composed by a 16 year old! In all the rest of his brilliant career, Mendelssohn never surpassed this work of teenaged genius. And BTW this is a really terrific performance. Everybody's really on the same page in terms of the sound they're trying to create. Also nice work by the recording engineer.

[@Alex-ud6zr]

I also agree that this is the pinnacle of his work.

[@jasonhurd4379]

It is one part of his 'double-pinnacle', of which the other part is the overture to A Midsummer-Night's Dream.

[@5610winston]

On the other hand, remember that Glazounov's first symphony was performed when he was sixteen, and Mozart emerged from his mother's womb clutching the scores for his first three symphonies a horn concerto, and a string quartet.

[@5610winston]

@@jasonhurd4379 I'm partial to the symphonies, hard to single any one of those out as a favorite. One of my favorite pieces when I was a toddler was the War March of the Priests. My Dad had a red 45 RPM record and I wore that out. The "Songs Without Words".... The first time I ever heard this was after a choir rehearsal at Trinity Presbyterian, Choir Director and organist Adele Dieckmann shared some of it with us (first through third grade choristers) after the rehearsal.

[@bettinathwaite4082]

One of the best performances . I just love Rachel Henderson Freivogel who seems organically connected to her cello.

[@elvirjade4742]

Never was into classical music, but that was amazing. How much humans can achieve with hard work and skill

[@5610winston]

Give a listen to Borodin's Quartet no. 1 in A-major, the performance by the Omega Ensemble. Keep in mind while listening that Borodin was, in his time, one of the most brilliant chemists in the world and wrote music as a diversion from his scientific research.

[@howardjaeckel6176]

As you may have discovered a year later, there's a lot more where this came from!

[@PuddintameXYZ]

@@nancyduck278 the Romantic Era is just a type of classical music, not a whole seperate kind of music

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

God-given talent matters, too; for musicians, hard work & skill are meaningless w/out it..

[@brianrodney712]

Hard to believe that this beautiful and complex work was composed by Mendelssohn when he was only sixteen years of age.

[@beaker2257]

This performance and recording was so good it brought tears to my eyes.

[@richard7crowley]

00:05 I. Allegro moderato ma con fuoco 14:57 II. Andante 22:21 III. Scherzo 26:48 IV. Presto Wow. Unclear how anyone would consider modern rock music to be any more exciting than this. Especially the Scherzo and Presto Fabulous performance. Excellent sound. Bravo all around.

[@adamjones7701]

Texture

[@5610winston]

Excitement you want? It's right there building from 10:50 in a sonic fireworks display, a true "Mendelssohn Moment" of the brightest magnitude.

[@fedegwagwa]

The presto is straight out metal!

[@isaiahbaggett5014]

Great energy; lovely, full and rich sound! I am a choralist, and the strings sound so vocal here;)

[@tituschad1144]

It is said that the violin and it's family members are the closest of all musical instruments to the greatest and most beautiful musical instrument of all, the human voice.

[@なかい歯科-m5m]

I think this performance is the best of Mendelssohn's octet!!!! I want a live CD!

[@timhill3006]

Wonderful playing - lucky audience to have experienced this extraordinary performance

[@lawrence18uk]

Good tempi - not too fast, and really excellent adjustments at end of phrases. Knocks the Jascha Heifitz recording for 6 in this respect!

[@dn155]

Best version I've ever heard, ever... just incredible. Thank you.

[@billskywatcher5286]

I love that nod to Beethoven at 16:24. Epic!

[@taikim7623]

Wow, one of the most exciting performances of the Octet

[@shannondunford1400]

Just discovered this piece. Absolutely stunning performance.

[@danielmcnamara7100]

ok

[@ThunderNuggetGaming]

This is a really magnificent performance

[@vKarl71]

Wow. I'm so very happy to know that the wonderful Jupiter Quartet is still together & playing so brilliantly, with such heart. I went to the Yellowbarn festival in Vermont many years ago (mainly to hear the Chiara Quartet) and the Jupiters played an astounding Beethoven Op 131. I'll always remember the incongruousness of seeing, on an evening when they weren't playing, the great violinist Nelson Lee, in a flourescent yellow worker's vest, directing traffic in the parking lot. It was like running into Einstein behind the counter in a 711. These musicians are national treasures.

[@keithchadwick]

What an outstanding performance of this work by Mendelssohn.

[@stephanehuchet7981]

what a fire! overall in the last movement! astonishing...

[@kiteivideo]

Most beautiful performance I’ve heard of this piece!

[@Crisplaysviola]

4:19 is one of the most beautiful moments in classical music

[@5610winston]

I'm rather partial to the development starting around 8:20 and continuing through that incredible tutti beginning about 11:00. That build-up to the recap is thrilling!

[@isaacaledo9757]

I totally agree. First time I heard this octet it was live and it thrilled me so (this moment is epic) that it moved me to prepare an artistic performance with my kids at school. You can see it here (though maybe you'll need Spanish to catch the whole meaning): kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYnaqY2map2AgNE

[@plumb.474]

Have to say that this is just beautiful...was not familiar w/venue until I flew fr Kansas City to hear Danish String Q. here...the acoustics are outstanding - was designed FOR chamber music by the same designer who did acoustics at The Shed/Tanglewood...sublime!!

[@elenamariadraghici3872]

Thank you, Haruki, for bringing me here :)

[@jonsawyer2149]

Spectacular! Wish I had been there to hear in person but wonderful to have the video capturing all. Hurrah for the Jupiters and the Jaspers. Here's to many more quartet performances by both and bring on the octets too!

[@coasterdragon155]

this is one of the most brilliant performances of the piece i've ever heard. bravo!

[@fcovone]

Fabulous! Best performance I’ve heard of this piece. Bravo all around to both Jasper String Quartet and Jupiter String Quartet. Obviously, a grateful "Thank YOU" to the immense genius of Felix Mendelssohn who composed this masterpiece in the autumn of 1825 when he was only 16!!

[@QuinnTaran]

Wonderful, sensitive performance. I especially love the coda of the sonata and in particular the moment at 14:00 where you all so gracefully fall away from the crescendo into that beautiful treble counterpoint. Bravo!

[@sonicspaceboy]

Fabulous performance. And violin 2 (Sae) in the Scherzo doing the original bowing around bar 38 - bravissimo!

[@Polygal111]

Gorgeous piece and performance

[@michaeldu3608]

A truly stunning performance packed full of energy from the start to finish. Bravo! I can't wait to hear more from you!

[@rattywoof5259]

Never has the second 'cello had so much power! Whatever tempo he or she picks for the opening of the last movement, the rest have to follow - I've seen some looks of terror from the other seven players at some performances I've been at.

[@selenapiercy4109]

This group is absolutely incredible. Great job to you all!

[@jokirkham7001]

The most absolute and beautiful piece thank you

[@katietaylor4332]

Fabulous! You need such nimble fingers to play this well. This was a beautiful, technically impressive performance!

[@drusilladelp5162]

Fantastic!

[@rawpotatofella9654]

Fantastic job!

[@rogercuster3731]

Impassioned performance. Thanks for sharing.

[@jokirkham7001]

Thank you beautiful

[@h5g43579]

WOOOOOOW, EXCELLENT

[@bernalum]

Super !!

[@mtswyet]

Bravo! Thanks for posting the whole performance. I love this piece of music.

[@adamnankadishmanshakine5272]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@luminosity984]

I'm glad I put 33 minutes and 16 seconds to wonderful use

[@HS-cl7bi]

from 14:05 that cello man best i ever saw that passion respect man,

[@sergekolesini6921]

Incredible! Wow!!!!...

[@5610winston]

How did the world exist before this music was written?

[@laughinloveforever6707]

Excellent Performance! Thanks a lot!

[@filipkostrba5931]

Doubled the fun!

[@aristopus]

What a great genius was Mendelssohn. This is not orchestral music but rather chamber. Each instrument plays its now score. It sounds like one piece of music but it's not.

[@Utoobtime27]

Superb!

[@janetsmithson3063]

amazing!

[@vasama3]

Hi First, I wanted to say, this is amazing!! Second, if you were wondering (which you probably weren’t), the middle of this video is 16:38. That is all! Have a nice rest of your day!

[@ikonomultimedia4578]

Excepcional versión de estos dos cuartetos juntos, el Jasper y Jupiter, maravillosa interpretación¡!

[@marywhiteman3123]

WOW!

[@lemenyves34]

Excellent! You know what? There are two men and two women in each of both quartets, and they play face to face. I first believed they were arranged by couple. But not quite!

[@frankstein9982]

And three of them grew up together.

[@lemenyves34]

@@frankstein9982 Haha! Looks true indeed.

[@sophian8202]

I love where listening to 104.9 takes me

[@alyamaisarah5479]

who came here right after twoset video?

[@stephenhunt8756]

Grateful thanks to Jasper String Quartet for a simply superb performance. Here there are 8 completely equal partners, unlike so many performances and there is lots of pace, where others merely go for speed. Any more of these players available, as quartets?

[@ritabocsak5012]

It is beautiful ! Full with life.

[@drbrendankishketon]

At 31:13, the 1st violin part plays a single G note. Just one broad stroke of the open G string. This has always bothered me about this piece! Out of nowhere, a broad stroke of the open G string. lol

[@garysalamone6588]

A knockout!

[@yildirimkuzay9158]

Elite Musiker

[@joshuavalentine9611]

22:23

[@irvinmartin5789]

Murakami sent me here

[@paularachelcollins]

19:44 viola solo

[@bentonpreciado]

That solo is played by the 4th violin.

[@micjvsa]

wow that 2nd cello is SUPER bassy

[@isaiahbaggett5014]

I know!!! It sounded like a double bass was playing on that octave run at 11:19. Crazy.

[@peenut169]

A lot of recordings actually replace the second cellist with a bassist. It could fit with either one perfectly.

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@peenut169 Some recordings, like Pinchas Zukerman's, perform the work with a full orchestral string section, which has the advantage of full double-bass weight.

[@peenut169]

@@jasonhurd4379 Thanks, I'll be sure to check that one out!

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@peenut169 There is also a Christopher Nupen film of the Octet from the 1970s. It features Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pre and some other people. It is a beautiful rendition. I saw it on television ages ago, but it does not seem to be available on KZbin.

[@sarahs5101]

1. Violin 2. Violin 1. Viola 1. Cello 2. Cello 2. Viola 4. Violin 3. Violin (i think)

[@wendymyers3182]

Sarah Siemers Correct

[@vincentxia7748]

2 set brought me here

[@dizzyology7514]

I was fortunate to hear the same lineup perform this piece on January 15, 2014 in Philadelphia, and I have been a Jasper junkie ever since. The highest tribute I can give to this performance is to say that it's America's worthy answer to the legendary rendition by eight of Europe's top soloists at the International Chamber Music Festival in Tivoli in June 2014: kzbin.info/www/bejne/porCmJWlpLWqpcU Interesting bit of trivia: according to Michael Tree (late violist of the Guarneri Quartet) the top E-flat played by the 1st violin here is the highest note in the entire chamber music literature.

[@5610winston]

Borodin may have beaten that record with the high A-naturals in the trio section of the scherzo from his first string quartet. I may be mistaken, but....

[@dizzyology7514]

@@5610winston You may be right -- I'm only repeating what Arnold Steinhardt reported that Michael Tree said. It's in Steinhardt's book "Indivisible by Four." Not having the entire chamber music repertoire in my head at the present moment, I can't guarantee that it's accurate. :-)

[@aidankriegermusic]

@@dizzyology7514 definitely a step in a different direction, but check out the second movement of Shostakovich’s octet as well. The violins there go up to a G7. Only a third higher, but still. Great music 😊 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmi2g3-eYpKXpc0

[@한지-t7p]

단정하고 다정하다

[@hazelgriffin4336]

14:13 hate it when that happens lol

[@jgbusquets]

Never easy to handle this high notes on the E string, even for professional musicians

[@5610winston]

I love all the false cadences. Had they been closer contemporaries, Beethoven could have benefitted by taking lessons from Mendelssohn. Hard to believe Mendelssohn was only sixteen when he wrote this.

[@felixdevilliers1]

Mendelssohn would have dismissed you out of hand if you told him Beethoven could learn from him. Mendelssohn, Schumann went in different directions but they spent their lives learning from Beethoven and Bach. Do you think Chopin could have taught Bach something?

[@5610winston]

@@felixdevilliers1 Perhaps so, and modesty is a fine quality, but Mendelssohn was a genius of the brightest magnitude.

[@Renee2004lr]

I get tired of reading: "Hard to believe he was only 16 years old---" Well no it isn't hard to believe. His entire family were musicians, he was able to be around professional musicians whenever possible.That environment can and does influence an already well trained young composer and allow him (or her!) to compose music that seems to the public incredibly difficult.

[@muslit]

Mozart wrote nothing this mature at 16 years of age.

[@bobbowden7228]

He wrote it at 16

[@jej3451]

I thought that guy was going to break the pin off his cello near the end.

[@LucasJerzy]

Mendelsohn was a prick - but this, this is gold...!

[@JMoore-zm5of]

18 "dislikes"...seriously? What?!

[@muse1971]

000

[@baxtermason6909]

...two quartets competing with each other...;-)

[@qmumr2dtp271]

Here from Nikocado

[@GreenBoy9000]

What instance does this get used in by Nikokado?

[@kendanziger8072]

Rendered unwatchable by the commercials.

[@daveslyker4431]

Use brave browser. No commercials

[@penultimateh766]

How can the audience just sit there like lumps without dancing or at least bobbing there heads a little? Catatonic luddites.

[@denalijah6790]

26:45