Quartetto Italiano (1970): Brahms String Quartet op. 67 in B flat major

[@nickyork8901]

thank you for posting this. 10 years later it is giving great pleasure, what a fabulous interpretation.

[@ronenr1405]

Best

[@mitcha7819]

The second movement of this piece is one of the most sublime pieces of tonal string music ever written. Every time I hear the end, I am reminded that only Brahms could make a plagal cadence special…

[@Barbapippo]

Grazie per questa musica favolosa!

[@edwardhamilton1945]

A exceptional performance of a fine Brahms quartet.

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[@johnstag1391]

Delightful

[@lividina1]

amazing. music was so different - were feelings different, at that time?

[@loisbordorosenberg5123]

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[@tuirfghfhg1787]

What a masterpiece! Brahms was a finer version of Beethoven!

[@eduardoguerraavila8329]

I suppose you must be kidding. Beethoven is infinitely far beyond and in a higher (specially for string quartet) level as composer than Brahms

[@akagi2002]

Eduardo Guerra And I suppose you must be crazy; Brahms was definitly (in every area of music except opera) far beyond Beethoven and in a much higher level, not only as a composer, but also as a human being... just like Hegel was far far away beyond Kant... this is the logical consequence of the history, you can say anything you want, but you can never turn it around...

[@raymondgood2359]

dear un poco, i agree completely. well said!

[@marinacaracciolo3161]

I also do not agree with Eduardo Guerra: Brahms is absolutely not comparable to Beethoven; he is simply another, quite different, but really one of the greatest musicians of the entire history of musical art!...

[@victorlabsky2104]

Brahms "far beyond Beethoven and in i much higher level?" I believe that Brahms himself would disagree with such a statement. If Brahms speaks more eloquently to you than Beethoven, that´s perfectly all right with me. You certainly have your personal reasons. But, please, don´t turn art into an athletic competition! Art is not a long jump, so to speak... There is another dubious point in your argumentation, just when you mention "the logical consequence of the history" and compare Hegel with Kant. By using this logic of yours, was a playwright G.B.Shaw "far far away" from Shakespeare? Was Michelangelo a better sculptor than Donatello? Rodin still better than Michelangelo? Based on what? Being born later? Knowing his predecessors´ achievements? Having better tools? Ridiculous, right? Back to your initial comparison, which provoked my response, and your preference for Brahms. A giant, I fully agree. One of the greatest musical geniuses. Yet I would like to remind you that it was Beethoven who took a string quartet form and spirit directly from his predecessors´hands around 1790, single-handedly transformed it in a totally new chamber music language and passed this discovery into hands of his followers around 1910, totally omitting several generations of romantic composers. None of them - including Berlioz and Brahms - seemed to be able to follow him on this path.