Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 2
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- Composer: Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 -- 26 September 1945)
- Performers: Hungarian String Quartet
- Year of recording: 1961
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Sz. 67, BB 75 (Op. 17), written between 1915-1917.
00:00 - I. Moderato
10:15 - II. Allegro molto capriccioso
17:45 - III. Lento
Bartók was living in seclusion outside Budapest during the years of the First World War, and some of this isolation may have made its way into his String Quartet No. 2, which was composed between 1915 and 1917. Nevertheless, unlike its predecessor, this quartet is possessed of a classical detachment and Apollonian poise that sets it apart from the intense emotionality of Bartók's pre-war compositions.
The second quartet is in three movements, an Allegro molto capriccioso framed by two slow movements, marked Moderato and Lento, a disposition that seems to anticipate the arch forms that would later fascinate the composer.
- The first movement opens with soft murmuring from second violin and viola on the close interval of the minor second; major and minor seconds will play an important role throughout in the harmonic profile of the work. The main theme is pensive, a rising fillip on an augmented fourth setting the unsettled tone. As in other works from the era, especially the yet-to-come violin sonatas, Bartók here approaches a type of atonality, a "pseudo-atonality" that is partly a function of his radical, harmonically advanced polyphony, wherein melodies that have clear and easily comprehended shapes intertwine with each other in ways that produce great intervallic and harmonic tensions; yet these same processes also yield gem-like moments of diatonic triads, all the more beautiful for their rarity. A moment of exquisite and limpid beauty occurs midway through when a folk-like theme emerges from the polyphony, accompanied with music of Ravelian refinement; after a more serious development section, this theme returns, its triple time gently counterbalanced by double-time pizzicato chords that suggest the strumming of a guitar.
- By contrast, the second movement is wild and driving. Its main theme, a relentless ostinato emphasizing the minor third, is evocative of the primitive Arabian tunes Bartók had heard and collected in North Africa a few years previously (Biskra, 1913). The accompaniment is even more primitive, a one-note ostinato punctuated by pizzicato notes, giving the effect of Arabian drumming. Although the near-claustrophobic quality of the music's limited scale gives it a grim sound, the treatment is clearly playful. Midway there is a slower section, a sort of diffident serenade that quickly gives way to a return of the driving main theme, which is subjected to increasing expansion and variation within a rondo-like structure. The coda is fast and light, swirling through briefly and then disappearing.
- Where the opening moderato is perhaps the most sonically ravishing music Bartók ever wrote, the concluding Lento is the strangest and most desolate. The instruments do not so much play themes or motives as muse on fragments of themes, more intervallic phrases than melodies, like unrelenting sighs uttered in a landscape of despairing major and minor seconds. The material slowly coalesces into longer shapes as the movement proceeds, but cannot sustain any lengthy argument; after a brief but intense chordal climax, the music sinks back into the Slough of Despond from which it emerged: there are a few more sighs, then two quiet pizzicato notes from the cello draw the curtain.
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Every time I listen to Bartok it makes my life rich and intense. Thank you.
From about 30 years ago up to a decade this performance filled all my life so deeply that all my paintings and playing later remained impressed by it.
@urizaleon
3 жыл бұрын
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Le quatuor à une forme en arche 00:05 : Premier mouvement - Moderato - Forme sonate - Exposition - Premier groupe thématique 00:59 : Valse 01:34 : Exposition - Deuxième groupe thématique 03:05 : Exposition - Troisième groupe thématique 03:30 : Développement 05:43 : Réexposition - Premier groupe thématique 07:27 : Réexposition - Deuxième groupe thématique 08:36 : Réexposition - Troisième groupe thématique 09:11 : Coda 10:15 : Deuxième mouvement Allegro molto carpiccioso - Forme rondo 17:45 : Troisième mouvement - Lento - Forme sonate - Exposition - Premier groupe thématique 19:34 : Exposition - Deuxième groupe thématique 20:53 : Exposition - Troisième groupe thématique 22:18 : Développement 23:28 : Réexposition - Premier groupe thématique 25:58 : Réexposition - Troisième groupe thématique 26:34 : Coda (réminiscence du premier et du deuxième groupe thématique)
Love Bartok's String Quartet's, this really is night music.
@billtomson5791
3 жыл бұрын
They were a fave with me an' the boys down at the morgue years ago before the place burned down. Man you shoulda smelled that stench! The Bartok quartets always take me back.
@cubycube9924
Жыл бұрын
@@billtomson5791wait what did you just say
@reev9759
5 ай бұрын
What is "night music?"
I can definitely see the influence this had on king crimson
@rubeng9092
Жыл бұрын
Me too. That 2nd movement especially
Thank you for the program notes. I found them to be well written, precise, and informative.
This is an amazing piece and a powerful, dramatic performance.
Thank you for posting this wonderful work of this great composer.
grazie mille, è incredibile!
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@slateflash
3 жыл бұрын
That's metal af. I SAID IT
@guyf3115
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like folk music played on an accordion.
@segmentsAndCurves
Жыл бұрын
sounds like shostakovich
Yes, thank you for the program notes. They were necessary for my understanding the music. That's all it takes. I can take it from here.
Thanks!
@olla-vogala4090
8 жыл бұрын
+Jesús Rodríguez Picó :)
Love it
Who decided the work Bartok was doing was more importanttan Schmitt,Krenek etc . and others working at this time with extended ideas and original new ideas ? Now after only a few minutes I see what's happening in thescore : but who says its conveys something novel , important , truthful . U hear music from before 1st world and it does a lot of the same thing movement in fourths , minor2nds, M7 angular phrases , ellisions , breaths , open spaces all defining our world and bringer new emotions and truths but why Bartok ? Obviously the same reasons as why Beeth instead of Cherubini or other symphonists before Berlioz . Thats our work to do ! A few looks at the printed music the music has reason , humor and much sense so much I wonder what Im missing - may never comprehend all of it . I love this music . Unlike 5 and 6 it's almost immediately felt : that's why I stick with it . Gorgeous , dark hued textures from the very beginning and throughout . Always full of line and melody and counter lines . This is music too balance other artwork by !.
Oh my god the third movement is so insane
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12:45 movement of accents
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Hi, i'm looking for an analysis of this masterpiece! can someone help me?
@hahhey1372
6 ай бұрын
I’d recommend the Bartók companion which may touch on it in a few pages
@francescodifilippo613
6 ай бұрын
@@hahhey1372 Thank You, I've also found Bartok Chamber Music by Janos Karpati, very useful!
Going to throw out "Apollonian poise" without explaining it whatsoever?
It's not for the faint of heart. I myself had to make several urgent trips to the toilet on account of some the more discomfiting sonorities.
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I need fingerings so badly tho😭😭
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