Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73

Played by the Borodin Quartet.
Movement 1: 0:00
Movement 2: 6:50
Movement 3: 12:13
Movement 4: 16:35
Movement 5: 23:06

[@jean-pierremurrli3072]

One instument with 16 strings

[@michelecherchi154]

best comment

[@aDLEuF]

Smart Boy 🎉

[@cadazar123]

I lov u

[@Rachelnymetal]

the Borodin Quartet cycle of the Shostakovich Quartets on EMI are a MUST HAVE in your collection

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Rachel Hilgert Agreed. I bought the boxed set of LPs when it first hit the shops in the UK c1974 or 1975. It only had from 1 to 13, but it wasn't long before EMI released an LP of the Beethoven Quartet playing 14 & 15. I bought the boxed set on the basis of already having a Supraphon recording of this quartet (coupled wth Prokofiev's 1st Quartet). No 3 is still probably my favourite Shostakovich quartet.

[@christopherbuilder5354]

Wholeheartedly agree!!

[@princeandrey]

I first heard the Shoshtakovich' Quartet #3 in the early 1960's--on our little Webcore portable phono which resided in the kitchen of our East Village railroad flat--I was ca 21 years old, more or less before stereo. It was a revelation! I lost track of the record when my living arrangements changed, but never forgot the "little tune" that begins Movement 1, whistling it, hearing it my brain, searching always for it. About twenty-years or so later, with the advent of CD's, I found it in J & R's & its opening melody was just as I'd carried around in my head, lo those many years. In neither case do I remember who played it! But now, thirty-five years late still, as I am reading Shoshakovitch memoirs, I decided to find it on KZbin and what a "find," so beautifully played by the Borodin Quartet! That heartbreaking slow movement! The bonanza of such long life.

[@Cadenza93]

great story, it wouldve killed me to wait so long to find the piece that was stuck in my head. One of the great benefits of current technology!

[@OmNom1206]

@@Cadenza93 And I was annoyed when I couldn’t google a song based on the note progression (turned out to be “Gangsta’s Paradise”)

[@CoyLadyDDL]

So emotionally expressive - 4th movement takes your breath away.

[@MrVincent537]

Fantastic musicians!!! Such a perfection in everything even in the soundrecording and the balance is unheared even until today. These musicians have surpassed in their musical perfections Oistrach, Menuhin, Casals and Fournier.

[@TahseenNakavi]

It is only this year that I have made a sojourn into Shostakovich's string quartets and I am fortunate that I did that. I have heard fourth, eighth and now the third. I am bowled over by all of them.

[@Renee2004lr]

Wait till you get to #'s 10 and 11--knock you socks off!

[@fabiomino3506]

@@Renee2004lr 😂 I was about to say “wait till” too

[@gabrielariasluna8442]

Thank you so much for uploading this(!!). The Borodin quartet (Kopelman, Abramenkov, Shebalin, Berlinsky) playing Shostakovich… In my opinion, a very valuable reference!

[@OmarFernandesAly]

Sound of the video is very good! Thank you a lot once more!

[@urgentmeow]

Awesome stuff.

[@lanaostrovsky998]

Браво

[@IvanGreindl]

Dear Richard Markus. Thank you so much for sharing these masterworks. However, I think it would be very useful to put *again* these wonderful recordings (N#3, N#8, ...) on KZbin, -- avoiding this time to cut them so abruptly at the last note. This really is painful for the genuine music-lovers among us. Thank you in advance for this effort. :-)

[@richardhering6521]

You're right - #8 in particular truncates the last note - but I don't possess original versions of the video recordings. I merely rescued them from a deleted account, so they are what they are.

[@IvanGreindl]

@@richardhering6521 Thanks for your reply.

[@tavit.6036]

@@richardhering6521 could you repost them without the ads though, cuz it is really annoying

[@IvanGreindl]

@@tavit.6036 Use an AdBlocker!

[@georges.9785]

Movement 1: 0:00 Movement 2: 6:50 Movement 3: 12:13 Movement 4: 16:35 Movement 5: 23:06

[@ulfgj]

u could tell the owner of the account to add it to the description of the video.

[@ulfgj]

cool :D

[@bekhbattsagaanchuluun5750]

George S. B

[@user-cg1bq6sf9t]

完成度完璧の歴史的演奏!

[@hiroshitone9704]

Wonderful

[@antoniosaavedra7806]

literally beautiful

[@retf054ewte3]

they sound so good

[@stepaushi]

Mikhail Kopelman is so stoic (the other's also); it's awesome to watch.

[@knownanonymous1691]

I'm an abnormal person, i see Shostakovich's name and i click as fast as possible Lol

[@jasmine9581]

13:19 I was comparing with another performance/video's mvmt 3, came her, pressed an estimated time and only ended up a measure ahead

[@anthonywolters7697]

Does anyone know the year and location of this performance? Wonderful recording!

[@OmarFernandesAly]

Thank you a lot for this interesting Quartet!

[@alohayooo]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@MegaCirse]

You can't exist without pleasure, even for a second, and it's hard to have sorrow for a long time. Such is existence 💃

[@user-nf3de3wg5m]

日曜日の夕方18時のFMクラシックジャーナルの冒頭タイトル曲だった記憶が。同曲の他の演奏にはない音への意識的な抑制、コントロールがボロディンSQぽかった。

[@briangriffin4515]

As pure music, that of DSCH could no doubt be improved. As a communicator, he's without parallel ...

[@ShanevsDCsniperr]

as pure letters on a screen, this comment makes perfect sense. in terms of communicating any meaning at all, it could certainly be improved.

[@briangriffin4515]

I suppose I just mean I've always been on the Shostakovich wavelength. I shouldn't assume that everyone else is. Sorry. @@ShanevsDCsniperr

[@denalijah6790]

4:00 viola melody

[@annlzp]

I have an addiction on 2nd, 3rd and 4rth movement.

[@santihortiz]

4:27

[@alexphipps4912]

When was this? I saw these guys play this in Philly in 2013

[@mason11198]

Edit: this is not to insult the uploader, you need ads, I'm just arguing how ineffective ads become in this application. Ads on classical performances are useless. They just piss me off, and even if I like the product, I am so mad at it that I swear to NEVER buy their product ever.

[@yoavshati]

The channel wants to profit

[@IvanGreindl]

Utilisez un bloqueur de pub ! ;-)

[@ContemporaryClassical]

@@yoavshati The ads are placed by the rights=holders, not this channel. And @Mason Guy you could use an adblocker

[@alexpaxton1336]

install uBlock Origin. I kind of forgot youtube videos have ads

[@nocynic]

Well, we are enjoying a product and not paying a penny to the performers or the composer. How much of something do you think you are entitled to for nothing?

[@stuharris8948]

for a bunch of old geezers they play well 90)

[@tonwilmes4889]

stu harris old WHAT, who are you? In heavens name? Ignorant ass!

[@robertfrankgill5962]

Ton Wilmes _Geezer_ is simply a British (especially London) way of saying guy, chap, bloke or dude. I think Stu was more intent on paying them a compliment. Honestly!

[@jamesjoycean]

unnecessary

[@muslit]

Shostakovich did not write one string quartet that could compare to the invention found in Bartok's.

[@christopherbuilder5354]

Whatever man.

[@user-vz4fy8uw9y]

Dear sir, but both composers have completely different quartet styles!

[@muslit]

@@user-vz4fy8uw9y I'm talking about invention, not style.

[@patrickdinnen9237]

Thank god for this comment, so definitive and full of conviction. It must be objectively accurate and not merely the opinion of a troll.

[@muslit]

@@user-vz4fy8uw9y Invention has nothing to do with style.

[@muslit]

Why the Shostakovich string quartets are rated so highly is a reality that must be corrected soon. The invention is spotty, the part writing leaves much to be desired (not with Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Bartok), and much of the music is just plain boring.

[@mason11198]

nay

[@BrucknerMotet]

I understand your comment to contain a few typos, and that you originally meant to type: "The DDS quartets are rated so highly. This is a reality THE DENIAL OF WHICH must be corrected soon."

[@nocynic]

Um...because they are superb compositions, perhaps? No correction necessary; sorry you are impervious to their beauty.

[@muslit]

@@nocynic Your opinion. The last ones especially are poorly written for a quartet of strings. Measures and measures of drones, while one player plays over them and the other players sit there with their one note. A total waste of a string quartet. Shostakovich became very self-absorbed at the end of his life as his invention bordered on the thinnest of pretenses. Yes, he was preoccupied with death. So was Mahler, so was Britten, so was Beethoven. But their invention blossomed while Shotakovich's withered away.

[@warmswarm]

@@muslit - I wish you would wither away. If you can't hear their beauty then that's your loss.