W.A. Mozart: String Quintet in G minor, K.516 from Concert 22nd August 2015

[@lessismore4470]

As with Mozart's greatest compositions, not one second is boring.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Perhaps the most beautiful chamber music Mozart ever wrote? I believe so. The theme in the first movement that repeats and repeats is heartbreakingly beautiful. And then it goes on with the same feeling in the other movements, this melodic sadness that also is so comforting. It is first in the last movement minor turns to major with a little sunshine in it. Thank you also all muscians for good playing with the right tempo, not to fast!

[@beethovenlovedmozart]

When Mozart got serious, no one was better. Untouchable.

[@anne-louiseluccarini4530]

Yep. His father knew it. Poor Leopold.

[@EmilTolonen]

Wrong. The most serious composers are J.S.Bach and Schubert.

[@nexuennex9151]

@@EmilTolonen Yeah because Beethoven was just a ray of sunshine.

[@loriscunado3607]

@@EmilTolonen How can you call another human being wrong? How can you judge seriousness or even detect it? Don Giovanni is serious too.

[@EmilTolonen]

@@loriscunado3607 Mozart had easier life than Schubert who also covered some of the most ugly and tabu feelings in winterreise. Mozart was great composer but I think the religious music of Bach and Brahms and the art songs and sonatas of Franz Schubert are more deep than anything by Amadeus

[@QRSC-fh2ob]

If I could, I would gladly give Mozart 5 years of my own life so he could write more music.

[@NoiseGrinder]

Beautiful comment and I feel the same.

[@homasong]

Tearing , me too .

[@pedrojose392]

He reached KV 626. I think that's enough! Save your time to listen to his music, share with your relatives and your friends and thank God.

[@RicardoPinto___]

What a beautiful thought! God bless you friend! Mozart forever!

[@queenofnevers6990]

Or at least finish Requiem.

[@monumentofwonders]

Sometimes I think the highpoint of Western Civilization came with Mozart's chamber music compositions: sophistication, passion, inventiveness, beauty, balance, depth, and nothing insane or out of place, perfection with ecstasy. The more you listen, the more enchanted and awestruck you become. Heaven's music brought to earth.

[@katherineparadis-chateaune8004]

I totally agree.

[@StanObirek]

When judging Mozart music one often forgets that in his time expressing deep feelings wasn't in a good taste. He had to do it in more subtle way than those who lived after him. This is perhaps why he finshed this quintet on a lighter note. He knew music is not more important than life; people listen to it while eating, drinking and doing all sorts of things. Considering such limitation, this quintet is a true masterpiece. Thanks for publishing!

[@Jabafish]

I love your comment. I agree with a lot of it, I think it is true that music is not the most important thing in the short life of humans. It's being nice to people and helping them (I think) without that you wouldn't be very happy or have a lot of friends. Music makes life better but doesn't controll it

[@StanObirek]

@@Jabafish I am not sure if it was Mozart who said: 'A true artist must be aware of the limits of their art.' Even if it wasn't him, this opinion well explains circumstances in which he had to work. Thanks for replying to my comment.

[@harryhagan5937]

I agree with your assertion, though I think music isright up there in the short list of really important things. Life without music would be bleak and gray. Maybe like having to eat porridge every day. You'd exist, but you wouldn't really "live."

[@k.arlanebel6732]

This composition is so good that it's astonishing that someone actually created it. It's difficult to process the fact that from silence someone brought brought this forth. It isn't just its profound melodic beauty and inventiveness, it's that those things are sustained with a white-hot intensity that is kept leashed by a total mastery of both material and self. Mozart was a profound soul of furnace-forged iron unafraid of simplicity and gentleness. An amazing human being.

[@alexreik424]

balderdash

[@roberthill799]

"... a soul of furnace-forged iron"? What the hell? Sounds like something Goebbels would write! Whatever it is, it certainly does not describe Mozart.

[@einarkristjansson6812]

Mozart wrote many of his best works in minor keys, so called ''dark'' Mozart. This is one of his best. Greetings from Iceland - Einar

[@teresapajak1889]

ABSOLUTELY DIVINE! I have no words to congratulate all of you! GREAT! EXEMPTIONAL !

[@FrostDirt]

The fouth movement is intensely emotional. I especially adore how Mozart wrote the cello part with the pizzicatos.

[@picardbs]

K.515 and K.516 are amongst the best of the best of what Mozart composed in his entire life.

[@peterwhyte317]

Pretty hard choose actually. I like The Magic Flute.

[@roberthill799]

Yes, it's difficult to choose any single composition from such a vast and varied repertoire. If forced to, I guess I would go with the Piano Concerto #21 but then what about his later symphonies or Don Giovanni or any of the serenades for winds or...? See? It's impossible.

[@adriananegruti3247]

One can dream of the sadness of an impossible love or of a lost love on this music and its beauty builds such elegant drawings and nostalgic landscapes in our mind as if thousands of souls overwrote on the memory of the universe their experiences and created this magic texture revealed by Mozart who had access to it, being a genious 😃

[@humamghassib2685]

This is one of Mozart's greatest works. As has often been remarked, the G minor key was his most "personal and intimate" key. The music is very poignant, although some have regarded the last movement as an aberration: the mood is all sombre, then all of a sudden, it becomes the opposite! Whatever, I think this is one of the greatest string quintets in the whole repertoire.

[@impCaesarAvg]

All classical music fans love Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Of the three, I like Mozart best, but other people may have different preferences.

[@lipatti0]

Yes, I agree with Human. In addition, Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 of all his compositions displays the anguish and torment that the composer had. This concerto also goes from the sombre to the opposite in the final movement's theme from minor to major, ending to the positive.

[@Wavewolfaroha]

This is a work ( with K. 515) that was on the first LP I bought as a child--I literally wore out two vinyl copies, loving it that much and listening so often!

[@urmorph]

@@lipatti0 But the C minor concerto, K.491, and both G Minor symphonies end in the minor. The entire finale to the G Minor piano quartet is in the major. Mozart skinned his cats in a great variety of ways. Here the major key of the whole movement is preceded by a slow introduction in the minor. Also there's Pamina's aria from Act II of The Magic Flute. All of the above are supreme masterworks, even among Mozart's compositions. (And while I'm at it, let's hear it for the two quintets for strings by Brahms. And of course the Schubert C Major. Damn. Now I'll be up all night.)

[@urmorph]

@XDranzer000 Meh.

[@HelenaWilliams8696]

The String Quintet is majestic. The cello melody is sonorous, mellow and beautiful. The rendition of the chamber ensemble is brilliant, it flows so like an incessant stream. The second movement is graceful and with melodious lyrical tunefulness. Mozarts G minor quintet is the most awesome version. Perfect sound recording.

[@jessicahale5085]

My mother introduced me to this piece many years ago..always reminds me of her and being young. Very poignant .

[@gerardbegni2806]

G minor is a very dramatic key for Mozart, just as for instance the allegro for piano, the two symphonies, the quartet with piano. Here, we have a noticeful rendition, which lets us perceive this essentiel dimension of the music, up to the final "happy end".

[@simonkawasaki4229]

Mozart’s best chamber piece, and that’s saying something.

[@stewartmcdowall2285]

A deeeeeelight! Thank you for keeping me sane in these troubled times!

[@frajam54]

Just superb! One the best renditions I ever listened. Bravo each one of the performers👏

[@SuperArkleo]

This is the best quintet by Mozart. I would dare to say, that in his chamber music output, this is #1 piece

[@fabriziocarpine9930]

Terrific performance. One of the best I've ever heard.

[@user-bc9mn7gq2c]

Just ravishing -- a tight ensemble of fine players yet sinuous and flexible. Full of insight yet blessedly insouciant.

[@c.g.marseille4510]

so many thanks to Mozart...!

[@fredquantik3057]

les quintettes de mozart sont des merveilles ciselées dans les rêves que le maestro envoyait à ses auditeurs , il y travaillait dur , avoua mozart dans une de ses correspondances , lui qui d ordinaire composait comme il respirait

[@Ariber1]

Wonderful feeling and love for the detail. Interesting set-up with the cello next to the first violin. Makes sense.

[@ronaldopacifico9441]

This comes close to perfection, no no no, this is just perfect!

[@waggishsagacity7947]

Wasn't this the most sonorous cello you've ever heard in a chamber ensemble? I can't decide if it was Mozart's sparing -- but oh, so heavenly -- use of the cello; or Ursula Smith' s mastery of the instrument; or this particular cello, so I'll say all three. Listen again to the cello in this quintet and you'll hear what I mean. Of course, the whole ensemble was perfection itself! Thank you very kindly for the upload.

[@alanbrucemacdonald1297]

Yes wonderful! But not to take away at all from this cellist, the most sonorous cello I recall hearing was Jacqueline Deprés (sp?) the slow movement of Schubert’s Trout Quintet.

[@pamelafrancis4476]

@@alanbrucemacdonald1297 (Jacqueline Du Pre)

[@estherszalay5921]

Beautiful music, well played and no adds! Heaven!

[@TimWard1]

The entire performance is outstanding, but the second movement is simply glorious! Thank you!

[@christophbreitenbach4112]

Immer, wenn ich dieses Quintett höre, frage ich mich, wie ich es wagen konnte, selbst Streichquintette zu schreiben. Nun, jeder hat das Seine zu sagen, aber diese Musik ist einfach unerreichbar perfekt!

[@piatomato4229]

The best among the performances of this quintet!

[@jonnie303]

Thank you for such a beautiful performance!

[@luizamsalgado]

I dare to say something that may sound almost outrageus to Mozartians, but the quintets are to my humble liking even more compelling than Mozart's String Quartets (perhaps due to the fact that I'm fanatic by Beethoven SQs specially the late ones - I also suspected that rec enginneers never did a good job recording the Mozart SQs .. Let's concede that for Genial Moozart). This quintet is the "nec plus ultra" of all quintets for two violas! Wonderful music! Here wonderfully played. It's a great consolation/subsitituition for the now no longer available in YT the version by the Emersons with Kim Kashkashian then very young (I saved that one downloading it). But this interpretation plus superb recording is right there on the top ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Jackaboo]

I'm playing this for a quintet in school, should be awesome!

[@bobsabo993]

Never give up your practice when out of school, continue to master your instrument it will be an investment you will never regret. Keep pursuing even if you become depressed or disctracted by other curiosities, or criticisms of others. Keep music as your devotion.

[@damianbendahan5141]

BEYONG ALL THE GENIUS OF THE MUSIC AND EVEN MOZART HIMSELF.......... THIS IS THE BEST PIECE OF MUSIC OF ALL TIMES

[@macinafrancesco3516]

E' DELLE PIU' GRANDI COMPOSIZIONI DA CAMERA CHE SIANO MAI STATE COMPOSTE.

[@arthurtung9943]

Thanks for this! I’m accustomed to listening to the Grumiaux quintet in this piece - but you bring out a *lot* I hadn’t appreciated before.

[@matthewwalsh7813]

How great it would be to be an instrumentalist. You have no word-meanings to deal with. You don't have formants, just static tone. It is socially acceptable for you to writhe around like you have a palsy when making a phrase. No one finds it cringe. I envy you so. Please, take a moment and appreciate your circumstance. My terrible jealousy aside - this was wonderfully done. Y'all sound absolutely fantastic.

[@newgeorge]

This astonishing work. I often felt, in this very elegant performance, that Mozart is wanting his players to be a little rougher. Some sections are so bleak and windswept: more Wuthering Heignts than Sense and Sensibility.

[@scruffysean3640]

Excellent music and playing... love that they took the first movement repeat.

[@Hermes1548]

Mozart is sometimes denied a place among the very greatest composers on the ground that he is inferior to Beethoven and others in his capacity for the expression of suffering. It has been maintained that in his G minor Quintet [K. 516], where the poignant intensity of the earlier movements finds release in a light-hearted finale, he should rather have transformed his emotion into something more noble. But we cannot say dogmatically that this movement was an error or a makeshift. He had no difficulty in solving the same problem most successfully in the Finale of his Clavier Concerto in C minor [K. 491], written just before, and in that of the G minor Symphony [K. 550], written not long after this Quintet. Until 1787, in his thirty-second year, he had not drained the cup of sorrow to the full; only in the next two years did he plumb the depths of suffering and disappointment, and his emotions found their transcendental expression in *Die Zauberflöte*. Here and in some of his late chamber works we meet much of the same tranquility and spirituality that Beethoven expressed in his late quartets and sonatas, but with the difference that Mozart had achieved his end without passing through any stage of exaggerated heroics. Mozart’s artistic instinct was never led astray by his emotions. The truest capacity for suffering is not that which flaunts it before the world, or that which represses all sorrow. Rather does a really great man avail himself of the natural right of humanity to obtain some alleviation from his sorrow through his art, but without obtruding it on the world with exaggerated or egotistical sentiment. He will rise superior in the end; he will not make capital out of his emotions or debase them, but will bequeath to posterity a legacy of beauty and inspiration born of his own adversity. Bigness in music is far from being synonymous with greatness, but universality, the power to create both comic and tragic opera, to write religious work whose deep sincerity still moves us, and to enrich in form and feeling the whole range of chamber and orchestral music, is the hallmark of one type of the greatest genius. Mozart achieved all this without ever allowing bitterness to betray his sense of artistic proportion.-A. Hyatt King, *Mozart in Retrospect*, Oxford University Press, 1955, pp. 195-96. Mozart nʼest pas le plus grand des musiciens... cʼest le seul.~Sacha Guitry.

[@lucapellegrini2253]

Thank you for this great comment!

[@Hermes1548]

You're welcome, Luca.

[@mtv565]

Mozart is inferior than Bach because Mozart composes to entertain. Bach composes for God and the soul.

[@SuperArkleo]

I was thinking the same way about Mozart till I've listened Mozart's Idomineo. This opera is better (for me) than all operas of Wagner, Verdi and Puccini combined together.....Mozart was only 25 years old when he composed it in 3 months. This opera is absolute world record in whatever measurement. It will stay unsurpassed forever. All Bach's music is looking very bleak in comparison to the 3rd act of this opera.

[@frankstein9982]

sorry, I don't think anybody in his or her right mind "denies" Mozart "a place among the very greatest composers", and I know a lot of people who would place him above Beethoven since he's a much greater opera composer.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@Dr80]

Siempre recordaré la primera vez que oí este quinteto de Mozart.Para mi es una demostración de la intimidad de Mozart.teñida de melancolía:No es vano este tono en sol menor,no sé por qué,conduce a la tristeza y es que toda la música que nos llega al alma por su grandeza nos recuerda nuestra menesterosidad

[@dariarolland9558]

Me permito no estar de acuerdo. Esta grandeza, puesto que la amamos y comprendemos, revela nuestra propia grandeza y nos pone en contacto con una zona de nuestra conciencia o de nuestro espíritu que nos estaba vedada hasta ahora. Mozart es un mediador, pero esa zona ya estaba en nosotros.

[@BillAlpert]

Wow, that's really fabulous!

[@aidanduffield5395]

Viola is so sweet!

[@robinterkzer8128]

Mozart forever ! xxxxxxx

[@realangelsobo]

This is exciting! Can't wait to play this!

[@arieh6368]

Dit quintet schreef Mozart ongeveer een jaar voor zijn dood. In de muziek hoor je als het ware al zijn voorgevoel van zijn vroegtijdig sterven

[@solomonschneider9860]

Thank you so much for this jam

[@bruno8360]

wonderful, with passion and heart....an a sweet 1.Violin 👍

[@settimanamusicaledeltrecen3586]

brilliant performance

[@Discovery_and_Change]

(Ad interruption) 1st movement 2nd movement 11:15 begins 3rd movement

[@simonkawasaki4229]

The third movement is the definition of absolute perfection. How Mozart turns the empty four notes of the violin and cello and forms them into part of a perfect cadence... And 22:07! Practically erotic.

[@nerrdinho]

Came here after reading Island by Huxley, while reading the dialogue of Dr Robert, he referenced this piece in regards to mystical feeling and emotions music invokes.

[@mariacristinazarpellon2786]

Scrive F.Schubert nel suo diario del 13 giugno 1816, dopo avere ascoltato il quintetto d'archi di Mozart, interpretato dal violinista M.Schlesinger: "...tanta forza...tanta delicatezza...impronte che ci restano nell'anima...Tutto il nostro essere ne risente il benefico flusso. Nelle tenebre di questa vita ci indicano in lontananza qualcosa di bello...su cui sperare. Mozart, spirito immortale, quante di queste dolci tracce di una vita più chiara e mogliore hai impresso nelle nostre anime. Quel quinteetto si potrebbe definire una delle sue più grandi "piccole" opere...".

[@BlindeEzel]

waw ! beautiful performance

[@calinesilva1770]

Love the quinteto

[@chrisdelzio4829]

the guy on the left.. LOVE the feet action.

[@joachimb.9090]

Estupendo! Una interpretacion perfecta! Gracias!

[@patricialuutheminh5299]

J'avais 22 ans quand j'entendis les KV 515 et 516 par Aronowitz tous 2 imprégnés de noblesse. Le CD de la Fnac comporte un défaut d'enregistrement, cela saute je crois sur le 516, donc inaudible.

[@lenanielsen5903]

🌿so wonderful🌿love it🌿

[@dorotaa6933]

Simply beautiful.

[@danielpincus221]

Beautiful, not least in the recording sound.

[@EpicureanSwerve]

Bravura performance!

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

The violas sound nice. Violas are so often neglected in classical music.

[@christianbrodiez5287]

C'est un peu vrai ; il y a tout de même le 6ème brandebourgeois de Bach , le concerto de Télémann celui de Stamitz ,celui de Haendel , les duos de Mozart et sa symphonie concertante avec violon et bien d'autres partitions ultérieures

[@violasrule68]

But not at all in chamber music - there are STACKS of fabulous viola quintets to play! 😊

[@ΝεκτάριοςΧούμος]

Just...Perfect!!!!

[@stephenhorton2875]

What can I say. This rocks like no other. Late Mozart is so stripped down...not much tune, not much of anything...like fine lace you hold up the window and all you see is light! The five become one organism in the flow!

[@tomduke558]

so sad, so beautiful g minor

[@dorinmargalit8514]

Formidable!

[@marcosPRATA918]

Perfeição e beleza, na obra e na execução!

[@prabhudhasivanson7110]

Exquisite performance

[@SimonMackUK77]

Also try to hear or buy the Lindsay Quartets version on ASV . . Even better, probing further into the heart of the music

[@tj-ze4kq]

13:56 ~ 14:11 magic god

[@TrazommozarT]

Mozart lässt niemals in Moll-Trostlosigkeit zurück, sondern bringt uns am Ende immer zur Sonne.

[@jhervargas]

Tengo entendido que Mozart escribio esta obra poco tiempo despues de la muerte de su padre, de ahi la eleccion del Sol menor como tonalidad y, en conseecuencia, lo funebre que puede parecer y el dolor que expres en cada movimiento.

[@gregorioelbosco2706]

esto solamente podía hacerlo el genio de Mozart!

[@ub3rcube]

This is crazy good ensemble and music making

[@carloschess2010]

Qué belleza!!!

[@jeanpaulchoppart6818]

A beautiful velvet sound. So rare in this work. Is it due to the unusual set-up (with the cello next to the first violin) ?

[@violasrule68]

No. It makes precious little difference where you sit in small ensembles like this, provided the room accoustics are good enough. They're just great players, playing (and obviously being inspired by) truly wonderful music.

[@davidschestenger3366]

Exquisite

[@howardchasnoff208]

The secondary theme in the exposition starts in g minor. This breaks the rules. It is supposed to be in a related key not the same key. It eventually goes to Bb - the dominant where it belongs. I guess Mozart do whatever he wants.

[@flavioferreira5924]

Way ahead of his time.

[@高村毅-j3s]

弦の響きが上質で、艶やかです。ハーモニーの波が心地よく、モーツァルトらしくて好きである。 第二楽章のフォルテシモが良い程度に聞こえた。ｖ（＾＿＾ｖ）♪

[@automatofix]

9:08, 21:27, 24:05

[@ralphfreda57]

The closest thing we have to the sublime

[@alexisatilano8451]

pregunta ¿cuales son los instrumentos? -

[@adriansierra146]

violín violoncelo

[@jesusmanriquezsantana1590]

2 violines 2 violas 1 violoncello

[@muslit]

Somehow this group's approach to the quintet is so smooth, unforced, and vibrato-less, occasionally it induces sleepiness, especially in the 3rd movement, granted it is muted. The sound of the recording doesn't help, either. I'm for reduced vibrato that can clarify chords, and a smoother approach, but here what results is a style of playing which dominates the musical substance of the piece - it doesn't enhance it. I wonder if this was really the way the quintet sounded when it was performed around 1790 (I don't know what kind of strings this group is using, or if their instruments are adapted to the period). For instance, the gaiety of the last movement's allegro barely registers from the tragedy of the adagio introduction. The playing is stylistically consistent, but the playing doesn't express the profound disparity between the two. Perhaps it took the 20th century to delve into this kind of contrast, or to provide the jolt in the rhythmic stability of the minuet. The impression I have is that if the this group performed the quintet on three different occasions, the result would be basically the same each time.

[@hj0001k]

24:00

[@Chris-sf4ox]

5:57

[@robertstempfle9554]

the primarius should be dancer, but wonderful played

[@aaronjorgefridman5662]

MOZART: no hay nada que se pueda agregar a todo lo que se ha dicho por más de dos siglos. Lástima que la calidad de la filmación no fue buena

[@c.g.marseille4510]

dit is een lied in vier coupletten . . . . heel verfijnd

[@金子倫太郎-n2v]

❗

[@warmredheat]

They're absolutely wonderful but the 1st violinist's exuberant leg movements are way too distracting.

[@alexreik424]

his girl begs to differ with you

[@MrConvivator]

danke! Habe Link gesetzt: www.wgsebald.de/MOZART/okt.html#24

[@z00mnyanavira64]

Rather I would suggest , give yourself completely to music for 5 years and see the result

[@rogernortman9219]

This and the 20th PC are his best works and maybe a few other. When I was in my early teens, I listened to a lot of Mozart. Why? Obviously because there wasn't much else recorded. Now, barring fewer than 10 of his 626 K's, a colossal bore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@franzamanncellist]

Das ist nicht das Sinnhoffer Quartett

[@slavakargin]

Кто-то там пыхтит очень сильно

[@Chris-my9hf]

only reason im here is because of school :)

[@z00mnyanavira64]

I hope you still alive :)