magnificent as always, Jeremy! But I can’t find “wet noodle” in any of my dictionaries, musicological or otherwise. You might be amused to know that when I played this a few years back at the Sarasota Music Festival, we had an offstage cellist play the low scordatura B flat at the end of the third movement so the cellist onstage didn’t have to be fussing around at the beginning of the finale. it was great.
First, I hope you feel better! Love that you're featuring this work. I'm not sure how I had managed to miss it, but the first time I sightread it (viola) this quartet was with a bunch of MIT math professors with whom I had regular gig during law school. We got to the andante cantabile movement and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I couldn't believe I'd never heard it, let alone played it. I still think that movement is music of the spheres. If that's trite so be it.
As a music theory ignoramus who adores anything Schumann, damn! This was like reading a novel. My heartbeat rose and fell with its twists and turns. And glad you're feeling better. When are you and Steven playing in NYC again?
magnificent as always, Jeremy! But I can’t find “wet noodle” in any of my dictionaries, musicological or otherwise. You might be amused to know that when I played this a few years back at the Sarasota Music Festival, we had an offstage cellist play the low scordatura B flat at the end of the third movement so the cellist onstage didn’t have to be fussing around at the beginning of the finale. it was great.
lol everyone has their B-flat stories! perhaps i should write a musicological monograph on “wet noodles in art”
You MUST
Or you could call it “prima la musica, dopo le fettuccine”
First, I hope you feel better! Love that you're featuring this work. I'm not sure how I had managed to miss it, but the first time I sightread it (viola) this quartet was with a bunch of MIT math professors with whom I had regular gig during law school. We got to the andante cantabile movement and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I couldn't believe I'd never heard it, let alone played it. I still think that movement is music of the spheres. If that's trite so be it.
As a music theory ignoramus who adores anything Schumann, damn! This was like reading a novel. My heartbeat rose and fell with its twists and turns. And glad you're feeling better. When are you and Steven playing in NYC again?
music academy is nice, practically grew up in that place
generously lovingly sharing insights intellectually grounded in emotional clarity - so generous and kind
This is Tovey-esque…(with a nice dose of Thomas De Quincey thrown in for good measure)…and I have only read the first few paragraphs. Damn it’s good…