Mendelssohn - Octet in Es groot: Vilde Frang, Julian Rachlin,Rick Stotijn e.a.

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Uitvoerenden:
Boris Brovtsyn- viool
Julian Rachlin - viool
Julia-Maria Kretz - viool,
Vilde Frang -viool
Amihai Grosz - altviool
Lawrence Power -altviool
Jens Peter Maintz - cello
Rick Stotijn - contrabas.
Mendelssohn-- Octet in Es groot, op. 20
Opgenomen tijdens het Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival van Janine Jansen op 25 juni 2014 in TivoliVredenburg. Dit was het openingsconcert.
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[@gimenezagustin]

Mendelssohn was only 16 years old when he wrote this piece. Truly a genius. Wonderful interpretation.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

I. Allegro moderato con fuoco 0:00 II. Andante 14:17 III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo 20:53 IV. Presto 25:40

[@aprilshowers1271]

The end of the 1st movement is unreal!!

[@britdude74]

One of the most gorgeous viola solos I've ever heard at 24:39 played beautifully by Amihai Grosz on his 1570 Gaspar-da-Salo :)

[@sasssssa6565]

Amihai grozc fan are here!! ahah

[@tomboyer5608]

It's not the viola. Grosz could play on a $2,000 Chinese student viola and sound fantastic because he is fantastic.

[@britdude74]

@@tomboyer5608 I didn't say it was the viola... just appreciating the beauty of both the artist and the instrument.

[@taikidesign6342]

All the world top class players, and yet there seems to be no crash of egos. Of course, they are all real pro. Also maybe, in each segment, leader and followers are so clearly defined by Mendelssohn. This is the best Mendelssohn's String Octet I have ever listened. So passionate and beautiful,

[@SkinoGreeneVu]

+Yamato Taiki I think it helps that each part is very engaging and for the most part fast-moving. you dont have time to think about egos. Although you hear the first violin doing most of the solo stuff each part really has its purpose

[@lakerman49]

I love how they each have their own unique personalities, and that non one truly overpowers another

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

See the above "First Fat Lady on the left" note...lol

[@setsuna2456]

@@CLASSICALFAN100 ?

[@shaundarius4836]

This group has muscle, class, verve, drive and sweetness! Bless them and their journey.

[@britdude74]

the perfect series of adjectives to describe this ensemble! :)

[@annaatlas1784]

​@@britdude74Yes, you are absolutely right: a perfect characteristics of their play! Only those are... nouns:)

[@lehighlinda]

Such a clean performance! So many recordings of this piece sound like a violin solo over a lot of mush.

[@megsmith6438]

hi Linda Day

[@Martin_Adams184]

A bullseye observation! I started to comment in more detail, but found that my comments distracted from this simple but profound point. So - Long live live music-making!

[@starifolklorac]

This is a magic of chamber music, all of them are No 1, team work essential.

[@daniel3231995]

It's especially true at the end where Boris is clearly doing circles around every one but it meshes so well!

[@simonwong2738]

Janine Jansen was too dominant in her group.

[@Daniel-rj9mn]

I discovered this piece 1 year ago and I admit it is one of my favorites by Mendelssohn. This version was the only one so far that held my attention from start to finish. Worth every second.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

They're not bad but there are better performances on the Tube 🎻 🎻 🎻

[@BryanHo]

A wonderful performance. I'm always in awe when I listen to this that Mendelssohn only 16 when he wrote this.

[@lakerman49]

+Bryan Ho prodigies come once in a life time, and 70 years after copyrights expire

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Here's FM's grave site in Leipzig, a small park-like cemetery. No statue, no nothing: www.findagrave.com/memorial/10315/felix-mendelssohn

[@daniel3231995]

First time playing real chamber music today. Aside from constantly laughing at each other's mistakes, there are sections in the Mendelssohn Octet where time seems to stand still. It's a feeling you don't want to let go of. It is extremely surreal. Anyway, this is the best performance objectively. Just look at 12:04 where they just instantly sync after solo flairs and many other times throughout. Just perfect.

[@pietalpha2]

"e.a." includes one of the world's top viola players! Amihai Grosz 1st Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. That was some line up!

[@sasssssa6565]

Lauwrence power is also an incredible violist

[@richardagins871]

This is a wonderful performance and I think the double bass adds another dimension to an already rich harmonic structure.

[@EdwardKeenanViola]

From the very opening I was engrossed with this individually wonderful recording of this octet... Then I saw Lawrence Power on second viola. Speaks for itself! Wonderful!

[@Francispia]

freaking love everyone involved in this group...

[@aipviolin5946]

For me this is one of the best work by Mendelssohn. And the performance is very expressive and clean. Perfect!

[@oscarguzman39]

Bravo Maese BORIS BROVTSYN, outstanding playing.

[@remixuereb]

Cette musique contient une forte lumière emplie de joie , d'optimisme et d'une pointe de douce mélancolie , elle vous inonde , vous transperce comme des flèches qui au lieu de vous blesser vous régénèrent , vous bercent pour la vie qui vous reste . Dans la vie de Felix , cette oeuvre jouée en famille un certain dimanche matin à la maison baignée de soleil , avec sa soeur Fanny et d'autres membres est restée à jamais dans sa mémoire et en l'écoutant et la réécoutant , elle vous produira , croyez moi , l'effet analogue !

[@MegaCirse]

C'est beau comme la rencontre inopinée d'un fer à repasser et d'un journal gratuit périmé sur le coin d'un guichet de gare en travaux!!!

[@remixuereb]

Vous avez parodié sans le savoir peut être , la sinistre définition de l'acte surréaliste de André Breton .

[@acerovalderas]

I adore this piece. And this performance Is superb.

[@ralphberney7768]

Great idea about the bass-works wonderfully well, another dimension, entwined with the superb musicianship and enthusiasm of each player, who make Mendelssohn come so alive and real; an unpretentious, inspiring composition whose creative flair, melody and melancholy,enthrall all who hear

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Does that mean you like it?...lol

[@tomboyer5608]

Wow, Amihai Grosz/Lawrence Power is quite a viola section. What they and Frang and Kretz bring to the middle voices is what makes this performance I think. It's also important that Brovtsyn plays with sensitivity and doesn't dominate. I think I'd like to see a little bit faster tempos in mvt. 1 and the scherzo, but that's just personal preference.

[@torterrakart7249]

I completely agree!! The perfect viola section (maybe inverted as Lawrence Viola 1 would be better, but that’s also a personal preference)

[@JenJenLiu]

one of many wonderful things of this group - is the BASS player! :) much better having a bassist play 2nd cello part in this piece! :)

[@jordicarrascohjelm6599]

Ju-Fang Liu exactly!!!!!

[@Pitborn]

Did you listen carefully to the beginning of the last movement? I doubt it. (And if it helps, change the speed from normal to 1/2.)

[@Moo19850730]

Finale of the 1st mov is just so beautiful. Thank you thank you thank you.

[@notaire2]

Sehr intime und zugleich dynamische Leistung dieses gut konstruierten Meisterwerks mit perfekter Synchronisierung der acht Virtuosen. Danke sehr!

[@leoinsf]

Fantastic performance by masters! Another master is the composer who at 16 wrote this incredibly mature work that is one of his best. Oh, Felix how profound a talent you have in all you composed in your short lifetime!!!

[@euanmackintosh6298]

A great of this wonderful piece of music. Thanks again!

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

A wonderful performance. The players really listen to each other! The ensemble is flawless!

[@andreaskonig451]

Indeed, a great performance. And to have one of the greatest performers of the past decades on the forth violin is something. Also says much about who she is.

[@davehshs651]

Wonderful performance! Beautiful! Thank you, Avro, for posting this. I'm glad to see that replacing one of the two cellos called for by the 16-year-old Mendelssohn with a contrabass is apparently catching on. It really adds depth to the bass and gives a more balanced sound, IMO.

[@waltermayr339]

Sehr, sehr, sehr schön. Genau die richtige Mischung von Vitalität und Sensibilität die das Stück so besonders macht.

[@reneperitz4903]

Difficult popular work excellently presented by a finely tuned ensemble. The balances by the musicians are carefully nuanced..no single performer dominates or overwhelms his or her part thereby making the work memorable.

[@anthonyaveray1324]

Glorious playing beyond words

[@MusicaAngela]

I'm sending this to my students. What a great performance of such beautiful music!

[@4estier]

Wunderbar !

[@DavidMorseMusic]

By far one of the most fun chamber music experiences I ever had... the cello 1 part is so much fun!

[@dizzyology7514]

Notice the glorious sound of Boris Brovtsyn's violin -- tone that is both vigorous and sweet. His instrument was made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, famous 19th century French luthier. Vilde Frang (vln IV) also plays a Vuillaume (it gets a nice solo at about 9:00). Julian Rachlin is playing a Strad. I don't know about Julia-Maria Kretz's instrument.

[@Horscht2001]

Julia-Maria Kretz performs on a violin by Joseph Nicola Gagliano, Naples, ca. 1791 :)

[@dizzyology7514]

Thank you!

[@dizzyology7514]

While we're at it, Amihai Grosz plays a 1570 Gaspar-da-Salo viola. Lawrence Power's viola is by Antonio Brensi of Bologna.

[@LNcello]

and then to close the list: Jens Peter Maintz plays a Vincenzo Ruggeri cello of 1696 and Rick Stotijn plays a Rafaele & Antonio Gagliano double bass.

[@dizzyology7514]

Thanks very much for mentioning the New Yorker article about Eric Sun, which I had not read. Fascinating and moving. It's interesting that playing this piece on his Vuillaume was part of Sun's "bucket list." I find Vuillaumes hard to resist -- they have a tone that is remarkably clean and pure, yet also rich and warm. Here is another example, played by Antoine Bareil: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2bdandmiJWHea8

[@HelenaWilliams8696]

GREAT to see a fantastic string assemble so enthralled in Mendelsshon Octet. A fascinating piece.

[@bedenerexhepaj293]

So wonderful!!! Thank you!!

[@RicardoCorona]

Beautiful Performance

[@professordodo1]

An awesomely inspired fusion of wonderful musicians weaving a truly beautiful performance of a what can only be called a miraculously dreamt composition from such a young brain. Terrific stuff!

[@taikidesign6342]

professordodo1 Only way I could see this is that he was assisted by holy spirit.

[@RussellKeatsRivas]

Gosh. So clean. Even the bass playing for the second cello part in the finale is clean. *goes and practice 6449291947 hours*

[@robertcohn8858]

Delightful performance! What a talented group of young people.

[@oscarguzman39]

Impecable performance. Thanks very much to Maese Mendelssohn, to the outstanding musicians, to the Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival and of course to AVTROSS.

[@massimilianoturchipianist]

Maybe the best recording in KZbin of this. Thank you!

[@renaldtremblay8333]

Tout à fait magnifique! Merci.

[@aarondyer.pianist]

10:00-10:45 make or break part of the movement and an EXTREMELY exciting transition I can listen to a thousand times.

[@dizzyology7514]

I agree. A haunting suspense builds as the contrapuntal theme travels through the ensemble, and then almost magically collapses into unison playing, breaking the tension with a burst of light. This ensemble makes the passage very dramatic, and the double bass helps with the overall effect.

[@aarondyer.pianist]

Back again for another listening. Emotionally exhausting after just the first movement.

[@oscarguzman39]

More I listen this master piece more I like it. I love to see how much enjoy the musicians.

[@carlhopkinson]

Not everything M. wrote is good....but when it is good, it is great.

[@pamelafrancis4476]

The interaction of the players is inspiring. Per adua ad astra!

[@dizzyology7514]

It is indeed, and especially so because these performers do not play together regularly (as one could guess from their disparate styles of dress). Each of them is a distinguished soloist or principal in an orchestra, and they assembled just for the purpose of playing this composition at the 2014 International Chamber Music Festival organized by Janine Jansen. They can't have had more than a single rehearsal, and yet the coherence of their approach and the way they communicate to build a unified interpretation makes it sound as though they have been playing as a team for years. Very impressive!

[@ianstephenson3848]

Great performance of this wonderful work. They really capture the joy and vitality. As a cellist I shouldn't really endorse the replacement of the second cello by a double bass but it works well (and that bass player is so cute!).

[@logand.1561]

Ian Stephenson The original copy of the manuscript is scored with a double bass :)

[@snorlaxsnore]

+Lio Doddemeade The manuscript can be viewed on IMSLP and unfortunately for bassists it's for two cellos

[@mpowe9762]

Ian Stephenson someone goes for the sloppy bear type

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

"Oh Eye Candy, Where Art Thou?" (ROFL)

[@acerovalderas]

I love this piece, preferently the first movement. The players are excellent.

[@sebastian9445]

3:38 love that bow hold lol ✋😩

[@CrazyAification]

this brings back such great memories

[@khwezizungu8254]

Im glad they show the composers name in the thumbnail... its the small things in life.

[@karinlauterbach3157]

Ganz toll. Ich glaube, das höre ich jetzt wieder und wieder. Faszinierend. Danke!

[@NoMoreMrNiceGuyNYC]

The camera work in this video seems to have been done by someone deaf and unable to read music. Which is too bad, because it's such an amazing performance.

[@SSNewberry]

This one is classic.

[@user-qp8ei8lc3d]

Sublime!

[@Alfredovbg]

Qué gran interpretación, una maravilla.

[@giobannearanmena5000]

Este octeto es de gran expresividad y dinamismo. Me da gusto oírlo ejecutarlo magistralmente.

[@KosteckiAdam]

Really great! Congratulation!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

A lovely piece of music, written when Mendelssohn was only sixteen (16). I also appreciate Vilde Frang in this Octet.

[@allthethingsarebeautiful]

I love this performance! Thank you:))

[@da96103]

From Haruki Murakami's book Killing Commendatore: I opened the glove compartment and found five or six CDs inside. One of them was a performance of Mendelssohn's Octet by I Musici. My wife liked to listen to it when we went on drives. An unusual setup with a double string quartet, but a beautiful melody. Mendelssohn was only sixteen when he composed the piece. My wife told me this. A child prodigy. What were you doing when you were sixteen?

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Writing music, but nothing as good as this!!! Good story.

[@nickyork8901]

Playing the Mendelssohn octet at a music festival! It was great fun.

[@walterschlupp6946]

Great performance! As a "former performer" and sound engineer I would say the grain of salt to make this presentation perfect would be a good synchronization of sound and video. I hope KZbin will make it possible some day.

[@dizzyology7514]

According to the late Michael Tree (who was violist of the Guarneri Quartet), the E-flat at 3:58 is the highest note in the entire chamber music literature.

[@anniebernhard3636]

So wonderful! My favorite interpretation anywhere. Thank you for posting!

[@chefpollotoro7879]

Fantástica interpretación y ejecución con pasión, técnica y sentimiento, saludos!

[@Ian24s]

That opening theme says just about everything

[@jazael48]

Música muy delicada y poderosa, interpretada de manera impecable.

[@abundance6692]

Interesting to use a c. bass for the second cello part. I wonder what Mendelssohn would have thought. It does change the sonority quite a bit.

[@prabhudhasivanson7110]

Wonderful rendition (Y)

[@MegaCirse]

All great ideas inspired, music, films, philosophy, inventions, revelations all come from the collective unconscious. Very often artists use the inspiration from outside, deductive logic, the extrapolation of evidence and reasoning known to unveil the sumptuous and magnificent righteousness of a sound architecture such as this one. It is a truth that is spontaneously revealed to us or that with time we have to verify by ourselves in order to know if such and such a composer can change our minds and our existences

[@VinceEliezerNChua]

Ultimate respect! Anyone else find 12:12 extremely satisfying?

[@Baal-33]

Great!)))

[@NoMoreMrNiceGuyNYC]

I have never heard it performed with a bass instead of the second cello. That's an unusual choice. Not sure I like it. But the performance itself is wonderful: the musicians are obviously having fun with the music-appropriately, for such a youthful, exuberant piece. Mendelssohn wrote it when he was 16. Unbelievable.

[@davehshs651]

For an interesting take by another 8 young musicians on this great piece, also using a bass, check out the performance at thespotmusic YT channel from the Zagreb International Chamber Music Festival. It's not better than this one, but, IMO, it's a bit more energetic and dynamic and brings out the bass a little better.

[@NoMoreMrNiceGuyNYC]

davehshs Where did the tradition of performing it with a double bass come from?

[@davehshs651]

MercurySaturday Don't really know that it's actually a "tradition." The Zagreb performance is the only other one that I know of, and I just happened upon it a few years ago on youtube.

[@pimogens]

The camera is randomly directed here and there, paying little attention to what happens in the music. For example at 18:30 they show violins 1, 2, and 3 while violin 4 has an ominous solo. But a spirited performance!

[@SamsonCheung]

Using a doublebass to replace the second cello is a debatable choice. But too enjoyable. In my recollection, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had done it as well.

[@ameerabae1697]

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[@mtnestar]

Why the back shots Director? You keep going to them and they interrupt my concentration on this marvellous group of musicians playing this piece of genius composition.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Violinist in the middle is pretty 😍

[@user-il1vr9lu9e]

楽しんで、美しい音の池に浸ってしまう。

[@kylaannsadueste80]

Octet Op. 20 4th Movement a 2nd Cello Version Song By Sis. Princess 00:25:43

[@davidbrookspiano]

Varys owns the 1st violin part!

[@ArthurTheLibraryDetective]

16 Thumbs ups!! Just picked that number out, no reason, it sounded good😊

[@soundybreeze934]

just came by to find the imposter

[@meinerHeld]

pff wat the fuck hehe

[@TajZver]

I. Allegro moderato con fuoco 0:00 II. Andante 14:17 III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo 20:53 IV. Presto 25:40 23 Reply

[@toffifeewolf2069]

21:31 OMG how is this even and clean ricochet even possible???

[@penmerch2804]

It's possible because they are masters of their craft!

[@bingyangyang2057]

how can get this double bass version pdf ？perfect

[@vavlnplyr]

the description lists Vilde Frang as 1st violin, but that's obviously not right...

[@luladekolik8643]

They put the most famous names in the title, not as an order

[@mosaiques23]

Very nice performance but I don't understand what is the double-bass doing there. Why don't they play the piece with two cellos, as Menselssohn wrote it? 🤔

[@chuckgviolin3538]

Whenever I want to be inspired to practice more, I watch a live performance of the Octet. This is a great one for sure. I'm not 100% on the bass instead of 2nd cello though. The real low notes here and there just don't quite fit to me.

[@JVQ8Y]

clearly, there was a misunderstanding about concert dress..

[@gitaekkim]

Yes, I agree. but sound's good! Thank you.

[@douglasyiuchinglok307]

Why is the second cello replaced by a double bass?

[@curaticac5391]

One violin is stridently louder than the other instruments. Is it because they played it like that, or because the mixing engineer turned a potentiometer more than necessary? With this electronic chemistry which could turn some sounds into almost anything else, it is hard to tell :-( ... .

[@regenliedsonate129]

Didn't know Frank Black could play the Violin ;)

[@Squidward_Tikiland]

its like, i listen to classical to get away from these crazy rock dudes, but in every symphony, there one is! i saw putin conducting just yesterday

[@dancingkangaroo1036]

+Leonidas Diamandopoulos Hahaha, Paavo ;)

[@OmfgOakt]

Damn. That Boris. So hot right now

[@simonviolino8947]

A very fine performance. I like the idea of the double bass! However,the 1st violin could have played out more;the work is really Mendelssohn's other violin concerto. Just listen to the recordings of Heifetz and Ivry Gitlis playing this work.

[@nickyork8901]

Absolutely disagree. It is chamber music, and the balance with the other 7 instruments is crucial, and it's super hearing it as played here. Heifetz was amazing, but he was really not a great chamber musician.

[@sbeallvln]

Bass? I have never seen double bass in his octet.

[@cyvue]

What kind of shoulder rest is the 4th violinist using!?

[@dariuselectricviolinist2335]

Chue Vue It's called libero. Buy it from maison tasset. 100 euros cheeper than anywhere else. i used one for 2 years now. make a violin sound 50% better! Enjoy!