Mozart, String Quintet in C KV 515, HD recording Delft Music Festival

[@josephbarker3717]

Alina Ibragimova + Jakob Koranyi especially amazing

[@mikekeyes6102]

Mozart was very fond of the viola and here the leading viola is a really fine musician - a great performance.

[@davidjared3402]

Agreed; I've seen him in other YT videos, where he also plays well!

[@nunkajamas1]

This is a brilliant performance. The best I´ve found on youtube so far.

[@aaronjorgefridman5662]

Qué belleza... La 2da viola hace un excelente aporte y el chelo es fundamental. Aplausos, aplausos

[@williamreidboyd2944]

Delighted to find Alina here! Wonderful from everyone. Thank you so much.

[@paulmarshall3951]

This is so wide awake, present, capable and full of emotional understanding for this music, I feel overwhelmed! I listened through the whole recording several times. I'm blown away by this level of expression. Thank you Liza Ferschtman, Alina Ibragimova, Amihai Grosz, Jakob Koranyi, Gijs Kramers!

[@takeshitedada4595]

Great, Bravo Ladies and Gentleman. I feel this string quintet along with K516 is one of the best quintet ever written. Thank you, I have enjoyed adequately.

[@wric01]

Incredible how they managed to record this clearly in this environment.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@garymilsark6518]

I have watched this video several times. It is wonderful in all respects, but the thing that really blows me away is the depth of musical sensitivity in the first fiddler's playing. How does one get so wise so young? If I could once play anything this well I would die a happy man.

[@miyukinakamura9540]

Ist violin ist besonders wunderschön, sie spielen sehr harmonisch, zusammen zu musizieren!

[@stansalmon1959]

A pure delight played with great feeling Gave me such pleasure when I was feeling low.

[@bonarlaw9066]

well.....what can you say such great music.....

[@arnoldvdwaals]

How about this fine piece and played so well! Thanks for posting!

[@solomonschneider9860]

Warm dramatic version! Intense soprano/baritone duet hiding in that number.

[@iggyreilly2463]

11:49 The greatest pedal point prior to Bruckner. Mozart clearly had Haydn's Op. 33 no. 3 in mind -- greatly expanded, enriched, and ennobled.

[@滝川岬一]

ヴイオラのアミハイ。グロ－ズとても気持ちよさそうに演奏していました!素晴らしいアンサンブルですね。

[@Rx-mn5fv]

Another home run for Mozart! Thank you for the video. Very good ensemble playing.

[@str3123]

Stellar performance, marvelous music. The interpretation is simply perfect...

[@gootzite47]

magnificent rendition

[@khirai66]

Quite unbelievable and wonderful performance!

[@김미영-l3g7n]

Great music and performance of full understanding!

[@滝川岬一]

ヴイオラのアミハイ､グローズが好きで良く聴いて居ます日本でも横浜で演奏を聴き感激しました。

[@lylemoultrie5498]

who and why would 18 people click dislike on this!!?? did they hear a cuticle scrape against a string or something?! yeesh! this is positively sublime heaven!

[@24classicsvideo]

maybe they were aiming to like it but hit the wrong button?

[@thethikboy]

A magnificent piece the gleaming architectural grandeur of the piano concerto in the same key (#25) , the Jupiter symphony stands as pinnacle achievement in the history of music.

[@MikJFr]

... All in the key of C major. So are not-a-few other significant works: the finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony comes to mind, as does Schubert's inimitable String Quintet.

[@thethikboy]

@@MikJFr I agree that the fifth is an Olympian achievement and the victory finale is in C major. But the symphony is technically in C minor.

[@horaciogilardi9776]

Hermoso !! La Música al acceso del pueblo,a cielo abierto, Que buena idea !! si Mozart podría verlos......

[@jeanpaulchoppart6818]

Well done for the great clarity of the texture in the first movement.

[@orecalle]

Great sounds. Thanks for this video.

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Marvellous. Well done one and all. Thanks for loading! ':-)

[@moret1957]

magnìfica interpretaciòn,cuesta encontrar tanta naturalidad!!!

[@robertwilliamson7765]

Not headed this before! Wow it is breathtaking brilliant.

[@hansgeorgfischer9842]

Truly a magic performance! Such a lot of esprit, colours, transparency, it's like walking through a garden full of beautiful flowers. Bravissimo!

[@SuperArkleo]

This is the best (in my opinion) string quintet of Mozart's. Surely, this is win-win quintet. That is to say if players are doing their part well, then they always will get the best possible public responce for their performance

[@javiervillar4644]

What an outstanding performance!

[@kenichinishikawa7007]

Impressive performance and I love the artistic expression. Recently I digitized the record by Barylli quintet of this music (monorail) and listening it. I looked for compatible performances finally I found it. In particular the third movement is excellent to me.

[@leohelling182]

wonderful thank you for posting.

[@hugovlugter]

Beautiful Lieder ohne Worter. I feel though, that with his Viola Quintets Mozart had a lot to say

[@nathanhoffmann9362]

I love watching their faces. Such communication!

[@portischarles]

Not being mean, but the 1st violin's face I found offputting and slightly cringeworthy - though agree with your comment for the other 4 players.

[@tombristowe846]

@@portischarles Me too. She's not in the Andre Rieu orchestra.

[@HenJack-vl5cb]

This is wonderful

[@jenjenviola]

BRAVO!!!!!

[@ИринаЛесиовская]

Браво!!

[@roberto38766]

Maravilhosa música!

[@Silverguitar66]

Happy Birthday 😌❤🎶❤🎶❤🎶❤😌

[@mvgoldblatt]

Amihai Grosz is the principal viola in the Berlin Philharmonic.

[@johnsmith-mo1yc]

What is the viola that he is playing?

[@joachimb.9090]

A mi me gusta mucho, mucho! Una interpretación perfecta. Gracias!

[@ruigomesdesousa8074]

simplesmente maravilhoso e emocionante

[@joseluizfrancis-cresciment6747]

Sim

[@joseluizfrancis-cresciment6747]

Sinto falta de ter, em toda América Latina, uma frequência maior de festivais deste quilate

[@miguelsuarez8010]

Delft, the city of Vermeer! The painter of 35 pictures.

[@horaciogilardi9776]

Mozart al aire libre !!! por que no ? y con público del barrio !!! La grabación del sonido, excelente !!!

[@michaels7889]

I rather think that is an illusion!

[@susu3818]

I like this.

[@jmv447]

The second most important (perhaps, arguably, even the MOST important) voice is that of the first viola. I would have loved to see much more of him than the first violinist. We get it, first violins are important. She played beautifully. But I want more viola camera time! And he isn't a bad looking fella either...

[@24classicsvideo]

Thanks for your comment! Next time we'll pay more attention to the viola!

[@gloria7094]

jadia0jordyn bien

[@frankstein9982]

plus, Amihai Grosz' instrument is one the oldest working fiddles, a Gaspara da Salo predating 1600

[@portischarles]

Wow. It was one of the most beautiful instruments I have ever heard. So rich and elegant - and the playing of course helped!

[@TheCaithleen]

And I love the girl in red!!!

[@akearchenholtz5437]

I too

[@maxfochtmann9576]

Да, приятное лицо.

[@apb64]

Я никогда не устану слушать это Чудо. Искусство - это умение создавать Прекрасное, и в этом Моцарту не было равных. Первая скрипка играет, по моему мнению, несколько грубовато и неряшливо. Но все равно, приятно видеть здесь свою соотечественницу, тем более такую симпотягу. Виолончелист умничка.

[@business5368]

+Александр Бакулин не умничка

[@vonditters856]

Absolutely nothing like this had ever been thought of when he wrote it, and of course no one even realized it at the time.

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Bellissima esecuzione, con un sostanziale equilibrio sonoro delle cinque componenti: pastoso il violoncello che fa da pendant alla voce acuta del primo violino.

[@pauldeck4500]

The two violinists are listed in reverse order in the video description.

[@GreatStuffist]

Outstanding performance and recording! I'm puzzled by the visuals, however. At, for example, 9:18 the players appear to be raised on a platform above the audience, but at 6:24 the audience is now higher. What's going on?

[@24classicsvideo]

This sounds like an optical illusion. The musicians are sitting on a - not too high - stage

[@33upm]

Why "HD"? - it is only 480, as with many of your other "HD" videos, too. They are fine, thanks!, so I wish they really were HD! The video would do, quite good for 480, but it is a pity not to use max. sound quality!

[@pedrojose392]

I'm a layman in music, but I do love music, really. I want to solve a doubt . First viola is nearest to the cellist and the first violini is the lady dressed in red, is that correct? Can anyone help me? My gratitude.

[@hansgeorgfischer9842]

Next to the cellist is the second viola. The first violist is sitting in the center. With the violins you are correct ;)

[@pedrojose392]

​@@hansgeorgfischer9842, My gratitude. After I posted that, I realized I was wrong. In chamber musics the violist at the center often appears when there is just one violist, so... I am trying to lurn.

[@francescopi208]

si,oui,yes,ja,soave.

[@c.g.marseille4510]

Ja, dank je !

[@FC-qu1gv]

Mozart placet!

[@brianswanson9881]

Good posture from the Cellist. Wish I could say that about the principal Violinist. Must have been a boxer in her former life. All that bobbing and weaving. I know they're showing expression in their music. But there is a limit. The Violas were great. K 174 is all time favorite of Mozart's quintets.

[@renaudlapierre8091]

+Brian Swanson A boxer in a former life... because she is a little bit chubby? I am sorry if you listen only with your eyes. You should use more your hears, therefore you would be hearing and seeing her great bow technique! That first violin is a great player. They in fact all are, but for me, the inside voices are almost always hidden and playing a filling role, which I can't stand.

[@brianswanson9881]

OMG. Such an intelligent come back. What grade did you pass? grade 4 maybe 5. I figured this with the one syllable words you used. My question is ......Why is a dufus like you listening to Mozart. Obviously you can't appreciate finable music.

[@brianswanson9881]

If you would have read it properly. She bobs her head like a boxer e.g. Joe Frazier. I said nothing about her size or weight. Want to see proper position in a Quartet or Quintett? Watch Pinchas Zukermann. And I speak as a teacher, who's played for 3 different Symphonies, in the last 30 years.

[@business5368]

+Brian Swanson would you say this was finable music? please explain in as few syllables as possible. skip bonnily into the sea, shit eating knave.

[@portischarles]

Agreed, except for your last sentence. Surely this K515 is the greatest of the quintets, and covers the most aesthetic, emotional, philosophical and logical space of all the quintets. In my opinion, it must be one of the 2 or 3 greatest and all-encompassing pieces by Mozart and, again in my opinion, of any composer. This piece just gives me a total emotional and cognitive workout, in a concentrated time span, that no other piece does. Humour, irony, tragedy, absurdity, conviviality, gemutlichkeit, gambolling, profound musings, emotional aching, the bob and weave of life, exaltation ... It has everything. It is this piece, for me, that shows a massive gap between Mozart and all other composers.

[@malcolmrichardson5628]

Sounds like one person playing

[@Richard.Atkinson]

Why did they cut off the beginning of the finale?

[@arnoldvdwaals]

You are so right! Horrible....

[@user-qc6yq9th1m]

The cameraman surely was a man ... and the people in the comment section complaining about the first violin's face surely are women. :D

[@frankstein9982]

There's a YT of Mozart's 614 Quintet with Alina Abrigimova on 2nd violin and Renaud Capucon on first. That works a lot better. I cannot help but notice that AA hardly ever makes eye-contact with the other players, she's in her own world, while the other players stay in close contact with each other.

[@angusmcmillan8981]

Absolutely wonderful playing of that all-time masterpiece. Sadly the camerawork is too restless and doesn’t show them together nearly enough.

[@muslit]

Playing outside is a bitch. In the third movement, I think the first violinist could have had a little more presence. I understand it was to highlight the first violist, but there is a statement and answer going on here, and occasionally I could barely hear the first violinist. At times her tone was quite thin. The three pizzicato notes in the cello - the only ones in the entire quintet - certainly could have been louder. This quintet is exceedingly beautiful. And yet, in terms of Mozart's instrumental works, the piano concertos still wow me the most.

[@alradart]

Wonderful Performance but very unprofessional Video...

[@portischarles]

First Viola so so beautiful, sweet and strong. Cellist also good. I felt the first violin was good but way too cute and fey, and exaggeratedly staccato which ruined certain moments, or rather, should I say, because this performance was generally amazing, reduced the aesthetic amplitude from 95% to 80% (for instance, the menuet in the 2nd movement). And in the third movement, too much plangency ... lacking air and humour. Mozart's intensity immediately 'burns off' into something else, as opposed to being trenchant. He is not Russian!

[@tombristowe846]

Wonderful playing, but I agree with some of the comments below about what you might call "antics", of a visual nature. I mean the exaggerated meaningful looks to each other and Miss Ibragimova 's affecting of pained or ecstatic facial expressions. It's not helped by the camera work either.

[@prager5046]

The lady in red is too prominent/pushy ...she is also playing often with too much vibrato...-an fashion way of playing...she makes the whole quintet to a miniature violin concerto...too bad

[@casualnova1]

Having read in their entirety the unabridged and uncensored Mozart's letters, I believe I have come to realize that this 515 string quintet is the epitome of the all well known Mozart's father-son conflict, that is, an aspiring son's first violin, a stern father's cello and pleading motherly violas. This performance, asides, is rather mediocre.

[@pervycreeper]

+casualnova1 Surely you're joking?

[@mikebrooke2204]

Great, but I could do without the histrionics from the girl in read

[@maxfochtmann9576]

Просто закройте свои глаза.....

[@neatwitaware]

Ms, Ibragimova - appalling.

[@MrFpam]

What exactly is your problem? She is one of the most talented young violinists with a successful international career.

[@portischarles]

Yes, and it's not the movements and expressions - though these are equally distracting and laughable - but that they match her constricted stylistic approach to Mozart that make the more annoying. It is febrile, binary Mozart - either plangently, hysterically intense or fey - missing the enormous middle palate of flowing humour, intelligent conversation, Apollonian whimsy ... She has incredible bowing technique as another poster said, and simply stunning intonation that is close to perfect ... but she has no wisdom or cultured appreciation for the variety of Mozart in her playing. Mozart is natural and rugged ... only on that canvas can his sheer multiplicity and variety of mood truly play out. She needs to listen to Viennese players like Klien, or learn from the other 4 players in this group who may be less famous than her but seem to have a much deeper feeling (esp 1st viola and cellist)

[@MrFpam]

There may be a skerrick of truth in your very subjective critical comments but it seems to me that you have started off with a negative view of Alina Ibragimova, for whatever reason. I can't help wondering what you really know about Mozart, violin playing or chamber music. There are many sensitive passages, for example in the answering of the cello in the first movement and this amongst others is an example of the intelligent conversation you refer to. Her movements are no worse than those of many other leaders of quartets (or in this case quintets) ,where there is an extra element of leading, almost conducting. It is open to dispute as to whether Mozart is natural or rugged, especially in these intimate chamber works. The description of her playing as febrile, binary, hysterically intense or fey is an extraordinary and unjustified exaggeration. You may not like her playing, and there is no accounting for taste, but to attack it in this dogmatic "febrile and hysterically intense" way, as if it is the undeniable truth, is wide of the mark and inappropriate.

[@portischarles]

I agree I put my points a bit savagely, but they stand. I have played Mozart in professional orchestras and in chamber music (violinist). She is an excellent violinist, and yes very expressive. She may develop into a great Mozart player but she is not there yet. And, unlike most people, it has nothing to do with her technique - it is an interpretive problem. The old Schnabel quote. For instance, to me Walter Klien is a much greater Mozart pianist than Uchida. More humour and naturalness needed, not ivory miniatures. But this is a question of taste.

[@robertfrankgill5962]

@@portischarles Mummy made me delete my comment. 😆😭🙄