The 3 Piano Quartets
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Title:
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The 3 Piano Quartets |
Otros títulos:
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Los 3 cuartetos para Piano |
Intérprete/ Colaborador:
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Johannes Brahms; Eastman Quartet |
Código CDU:
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Bra.20 |
Forma Musical:
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Piano quartets |
Abstract:
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"He will live until the end of time," slid Grillparzer, the poet, as Beethoven's body was lowered into the grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery. These words are quoted by Stravinsky in a review of Beethoven's quartets in the Septmember 1968 issue of the New York Review of Books, and he writes "These quartets are my highest articles of musical belief (which is a longer word for love, whatever else), as indispenable to the ways and meanings of art, as a musician of my era thinks of art and has tried to learn it, as temperature is to life. They are a triumph over tenporality, too. . ."
To a musician only a decade younger than Stravinsky, these words sound like a Credo. And they can be applied to the piano quartets of Brahms as well, which are also a triumph over temporality. Much music has been written since Brahms' piano quartets were the sensation of the day, and much of it will not triumph over temporality. But these three quartets sound exciting almost a hundred and fifty years after they ... |
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