Incredibile💎💎💎

very good audio quality

We played this at the funeral of my grandfather, exactly nine years ago. At the time, this piece, in combination with the atmosphere, made a huge impact on my 13 years old self. Yesterday i found this piece by accident, but with the first notes played, i knew exactly what i had found. Great moment. What a great piece of music it is!

14:16 my favorite part

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Qui aime le bruit de la merMon oreille est un coquillage

2nd mvt has a poppy beat. Amazing.

I. 0:02II. 8:48III. 15:18IV. 25:05

0:47 The first violin sounds like an oboe somehow.

This piece sounds very Debussy-esque.

Whenever they sound alike, Ravel did it first. Eventually he found that quite annoying.

Ravel championed melody over color, though color was at his beck and call always. Debussy had a different approach

Masters.

8:48-15:12 Just, wow. Like cascading down a river on a raft, some parts tumultuous and other parts smooth..all winding down to a waterfall.

This quartet was one of the first works of Ravel. he had a disagrrement with his teacher Fauré about the finale, but Debussy asked him not to change anything, what Ravel did.

Ravel's Mellow Yellow...... the best.

Somebody tell me a little about how such a mass of technique is (or is not) notated. These Hungarians are putting so much nuance into this. Did Ravel just expect a quartet to find their own sound with minimal prompts? It's fantastic sounding and ever unfolding.

It's called "entering the music." It is a given that one will play the right notes in the right place. But as a jazz guy (and Leonard Bernstein quoting Koussevitsky) said, "The music is between the notes." To play like this you have to put your soul and -- excuse me -- your balls on the line. That's why this playing is so thrilling. These guys took the dare.

As a general rule, Ravel is unique because his music works better without interpretation. When you push it around, it goes off the rails. He wrote what he meant and he meant what he wrote.In this case, a heavy dose of Russian sentimentality is exciting, but it's not at all what Ravel had in mind.

@dickrodstein oh he had Russian music in mind alright, as much as he worked hard to create something uniquely French. To hear it expressed here rather nakedly is a bit of a treat

The entire performance is a classic gem of all performances, my deepest thanks for such beauty well spoken as offered from such great legendary artists.

אן אויסגעצייכנטע רעקארדירונג!

Ravel if uwere alive id do e at ur concert and flash ppl

nah I just checked my birth certificate, I'm still 19! And did you just like your own comment??

i still like it

@Emma G you are magnificent.

Emma G. I love you emma

Sorry, Emma, he’d have little interest in your boobs since he was almost certainly gay. Never married, lived with mother.

Elegancia de la obra y de los intérpretes

Beautifully done.  Unfortunately Ravel only wrote two string concertos for quartet.  I love all his compositions.  What a blend of culture and expression!  .

DARK SKYYYY

Music History required listening.

My mom had this on vinyl and it was one of her favorites of all time. She had an uncanny ear for music and this in her opinion was the one. It had the Debussy quartet on one side and  I used to hear it all the time as a little bitty kid. Amazing to revisit this.

I had the same vinyl version your mom did. I listened to both pieces over and over through my lovelorn teens.

And one doesn't't even have to be lovelorn to find the beauty here. But darn it helps doesn't it

Maravillosa!

One of the most beautiful music pieces ever written

The world needs more of this...

Sublime!

This piece has always been in the shadow of the Debussy quartet for me but this delicate and sensitive recording has changed my mind. It has wonderful subtleties that I have never experienced from listening to my Melos quartet recording.

Tonight, I love it and I hear you.

for me, this work is eternal early summer. it is larks and harebells, downland grass on White Horse Hill, and frogs in ponds and tender new beech leaves. dragon flies and kingfishers, and small murders in the undergrowth !

Oh! true it is. In my mind I picture this scene in a sunny afternoon on a French countryside and a family pic nicking under a tree and the landscape as you have described.Bliss this is pure music. I may like to add this music is not for all ears. It is melodically and harmonically sophisticated.

You should be a published author or poet, Victoria. This might be my favorite comment on youtube.

This is an absolutely stunning recording of this piece.

Ah! I did not know that, ty. I'm not proud; I can learn.Now for some opinion (long time fiddle-player here): For this particular work, I grew up with a wonderful old recording by The Stuyvesant Quartet. (It's finally been re-issued by Bidulph.) It was quite brash all right, but also technically just about perfect. I found this recording here (after replying to your comment), to be weak, wussy, not-brash enough, and sloppy. Brilliant passages just thrown-away. In short, I hated it.

Sir, I agree. In my personal opinion, the rendering of the Stuyvesant string is  both spontaneous and yet full of understanding! The balance and transitions between instruments (by the Stuyvesant) is absolutely astounding! A breathtaking masterly performance

Huh??? This was recorded in 1958.