Sergei Prokofiev - String Quartet No. 2 “Kabardinian”
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- Composer: Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (23 April 1891 -- 5 March 1953)
- Performers: Pavel Haas Quartet
- Year of recording: 2009
String Quartet No. 2 in F major ("Kabardinian"), Op. 92, written in 1941.
00:00 - I. Allegro sostenuto
06:19 - II. Adagio
13:45 - III. Allegro
The parenthetical subtitle here, "Kabardinian," refers to the origin of the themes in this quartet. Prokofiev rarely used folk or other unoriginal thematic material in his works. This F major Quartet was an exception. In 1941 the composer, along with Myaskovsky and other artists, was sent away from Moscow -- towards which Hitler's troops advanced -- to the safer haven of Nalchik, capital city of the Kabarda-Balkar Republic, situated in the Northern Caucasus. There he was exposed to, and ultimately fascinated by, the folk music of that region.
While experienced listeners will hear the folk-flavor in the themes of this quartet (especially in the second movement), they will at once recognize the music as pure Prokofiev. The tenor of the work is light, from the rhythmic gusto of the first movement to the chipper prance of the finale.
- The opening panel, marked Allegro sostenuto, features two colorful themes, both lively and rhythmic, the second of the pair more genial and catchy. While the development section works up considerable tension and conflict, the music in general remains light and playful.
- The second movement Adagio begins with an exotic melody which has a Middle-Eastern air about its quivering accompaniment. A playful theme that skips about to an array of rhythmic effects forms the delightful middle section. The opening theme is reprised and the music ends quietly.
- The finale, marked Allegro, presents a catchy rhythmic theme and an alternate exotic melody, whose accompaniment features colorful prickly jabs. The middle section is largely comprised of a sustained emotional outburst whose cries are the only sounds in the work that even vaguely hint at war or suffering. The main material returns in reverse order and the works ends happily.
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first chord is literally just stacked 5ths, the madman
@mojeo522
3 жыл бұрын
C major + D minor poly. Such a nice effect!
@Tomsfilipsons
3 жыл бұрын
It's the second chord that bothers me personally. I guess it also could be seen as "stacked 5ths" with a diminished one thrown on top. Sounds like a random ugly dissonance to me.
@Luca-yg5qx
3 жыл бұрын
@@Tomsfilipsons i Love that chord
@lucasflood4812
2 жыл бұрын
@@Tomsfilipsons I also love that cord +ratio
@Vwill26
Жыл бұрын
@@Tomsfilipsons lol do you know what 5ths are 😂 the second chord is definitely not 5ths. Also, idk what you don’t like about it - it’s a common thing for Prokofiev to write in a chord like that for an added feeling of tension/mystery.
The precision actually frightens me
How can 4 instruments sound like a full orchestra? This piece is tapestry in the hands of a master weaver.
@richardcleveland8549
4 жыл бұрын
Great comparison!
19:43 is like running through the desert with a camel
@slateflash
6 жыл бұрын
More like if your camel escaped
@lmichaelgreenjr
Ай бұрын
western stereotyping and reductionism of eastern MUSIC 💜
I've been a Prokofiev fan for 50 years; this is a great example of his writing for chamber groups. I'm also impressed by the many knowledgeable comments about this work (I'm completely un-musical myself). Thanks for posting this.
@supasayajinsongoku4464
Жыл бұрын
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently
@richardcleveland8549
Жыл бұрын
@@supasayajinsongoku4464 Hmmmmmm . . . since I moved last December, I haven't listened to much music (more's the pity). I'll have to think about it . . . but thanks for posing the question.
6:19 Mvt II - Adagio 13:45 Mvt III - Allegro
I can't stop listening to the Adagio. And this Quartet captures it here the best I can find. Thank you for placing it here where I could discover it.
OH my gosh 3:43 is so good. It's terrifying and I love it
Listening to this again . . . and right after the Grosse Fuge! I recommend listening to both of these works in that order!
Prokofiev never ceases to amaze me; every composition of his is simultaneously gorgeous and horrific!
It's all great, but the beginning of the adagio has a particular magic for me. I've just found your videos and binging pretty hard, but it feels useful so I'm not guilty.
One of the Best quartet from the twentieth century. But look at Bartok quartets...So Terrific! Thanks for adding this video!
@punkpoetry
6 жыл бұрын
It's up there with the best quartets of Bartok and Shostakovitch
I've loved this music ever since I heard it as the accompaniment to a silent film, when I lived in Berkeley in the early '60s. There were 2 or 3 theaters then that showed some of the really great films of world cinema (hard to find such venues any more). It took me a long time to find the music; by then I'd forgotten the name of the film. It was of course in b&w; it was I think not a full-length film even by the standards of its day--maybe like a novella compared to a novel. It focused mainly on the actress who was the protagonist. She had one of the most beautiful faces I've ever seen, and by the end one of the saddest. I I think the basic plot was "seduced and abandoned." Since the film was made before Prokoviev, clearly this quartet was not the original sound track (which may have been performed live in theaters, maybe differing at every showing, and never recorded). Still, if anyone who reads this has run across a film that fits this description and can tell me any more about it, I'd love a post. In any case I'll always love this work, as so many of Prokoviev's.
@olla-vogala4090
8 жыл бұрын
+Richard Salisbury I'm a bit of a filmbuff, so I'll hazard a guess: Menilmontant?
@RichardASalisbury1
8 жыл бұрын
+olla-vogala Thank you so much! I'll do my best to check this out. (And I think you're right in one respect at least: my memory, now jogged, tells me this was probably a French film.)
@olla-vogala4090
8 жыл бұрын
Richard Salisbury No problem. If it's not the right one, tell me everything you remember (language of intertitles, camerashots/work, themes, etc.)
@amitmarkel
2 жыл бұрын
@@RichardASalisbury1 Was it that film eventually?
I absolutely cannot get enough of the part at 14:21
@user-mu9wt3zd7c
5 жыл бұрын
Непонятно.
@theend7339
5 жыл бұрын
what about 17:58?
@samuelmincarelli5051
3 жыл бұрын
Very Stravinskian. I simple melody with very vibrant rhythm.
The resolution at 5:58 is very bright. Very enjoyable.
ive never been so in love with a piece before!! i def have to get this at some point for the cello
Fantastic quartet playing! Incredible!
This is awesome, thank the almighty Lord for our musical ability! Movement III at 13:48 is awesome!
Bravo!!!! 1 of my absolutely all time favorite string quartets beautifully executed, beautiful!
my fav string quartet 1:30 is AWESOME!!!!!
Most engaging! I think Prokofiev's exposure to Kabardinian folk music produced beneficial results: I find this quartet much more interesting musically than the first.
thank you. Fantastic interpretation.
The ending is so unpredictable. I love it!!
To me, there was a breakthrough after hearing it for the third time in a few weeks. Magnificent piece!
@supasayajinsongoku4464
Жыл бұрын
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently?
@paulbloemen7256
Жыл бұрын
@@supasayajinsongoku4464 None really, though I have the same kind of experience, having to hear a piece a few times before appreciating it, when hearing pieces composed by Max Reger, the more challenging ones are quite exciting once you are accustomed to the language. Try some huge organ pieces, but piano pieces and string quartets, to name a few, are quite good too.
Magnificent work by Prokofiev!
The pizzicato theme in the third movement is reminiscent of the introduction to the Jewish theme in the last movement of Shostakovich's piano trio. But the latter was composed in 1944...
@stefanrogers9091
3 жыл бұрын
It’s actually a direct quote of a folk tune. Interestingly you can hear the exact same theme in the first movement of Myaskovsky’s 23rd symphony which was written at the same time when a handful of Russia’s top composers had been relocated away from Moscow in order to escape the conflict of the Second World War.
thats possibly the most harmonically unsatisfying ending ive ever heard and i absolutely love it
@phoebedraper3046
4 жыл бұрын
the ending to shostakovich's 11th symphony also does that to great effect
Only absolut legends switch time signatures during quartets
Wow this is amazing
17:58 always gets me man it's just beautiful chaos
prokofiev writes the best endings
Bravíssimo!!
I looked at the last chord of the second movement for about ninety seconds before I realized the score had a missing ledger line in the first violin.
2nd violin part seems almost as challenging as the 1st violin part
@Ishsa
4 жыл бұрын
Prokofiev is like that. The second violin is a supporting voice for him, not an easier voice. The first quartet is even harder on the second violinist
@allistermendez8085
3 жыл бұрын
When you've been a second violinist for a while and are happy you don't get that many challenging parts but then 20th century composers and beyond said "no, seconds go burr 🥰"
@iaf4454
3 ай бұрын
Yep it is
Love the bit at 15:58
19:32 that reminds me of super smash bros
The piece sounds like percussion
@supasayajinsongoku4464
Жыл бұрын
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently?
IT'S BACK!!!
So sad and touching. 21:37 6:47
For some reason it reminds me a lot the Villa-Lobos's string quartes
@boazmecham5101
4 жыл бұрын
yes it does!
17:59 eargasm! Cello solo C F C THICCCC
@vine2197
Жыл бұрын
Yeee
Why is nobody talking about 1:54?
I've never heard a string quartet which contained scary sections. But this one does, and lots besides.
@lifeisdead01
6 жыл бұрын
Lang Jones kzread.info/dash/bejne/gp6qtrafktO9mrw.html
@robertoesquivel4447
5 жыл бұрын
Oh you should check out Bartoks string quartets
@SHOVXL
5 жыл бұрын
Have you seen Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8!?
@slateflash
3 жыл бұрын
At least this is still countable, unlike some of the Bartok quartets!
Misprint in second movement, 3 after square 19, in the first violin part. There are some notes that aren't correctly notated.
@supasayajinsongoku4464
Жыл бұрын
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently?
5:28 I have never seen such a perfectly timed triplet. Uf.
That beginning is just magical, what a genius, russians are truly something else
Nine little Bells...
Es la una de las mejores partes del gercer movimiento el minuto 17:58
rare piece
That's some confidence right there. A very admirable quality for someone to have. Good for you, for having a "big fat dongle", but I think you can use said confidence to do greater things than exhibitionism on a music related forum
@WEEBLLOM
2 жыл бұрын
ok
yes, robertberger is right about temirkanov-you might guess he's not russian from his last name, which looks like it's derived from "temir" or tamurlane as known in the west. and to round off the story, when prokofiev fled stalin he went to temirkanofvs parents' house and the young future composed recalls shaking the great man's hand!
Why does the second violin change the octave at 20:45? I doubt it is a misprint
@amitmarkel
2 жыл бұрын
Great question, indeed. Great observation.
@amitmarkel
2 жыл бұрын
I think it's an error but it adds some variance, that's one of the differences from a computer that's playing
I feel like this was influenced by schulhoff
@supasayajinsongoku4464
Жыл бұрын
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently?
I have a best friend who is pretty much a prodigy at violin and piano(he's in 10th grade, I'm in 12th), and over time he has gained a huge appreciation for classical music. And because of him, so have I. Sometimes I'll come over, and we'll literally just show each other music we like for hours. Anyways, he showed me this song and explained that it's ment to be played in major(higher, happy), but is instead played in minor(lower, darker) and sounds like a murderer stabing someone. So when listening to this song, parts like 0:38 and 0:21 happen, and we burst out laughing XD
13:45
Which Quartett is playing?
@olla-vogala4090
8 жыл бұрын
+MaryMash Please click 'show more' under the video!
@MultiDansk8
5 жыл бұрын
Pavel Haas quartet
14:39 why didn't they do the col legno
@olla-vogala4090
7 жыл бұрын
You can ask them here directly, they'll respond to your question! facebook.com/PavelHaasQuartet/
@AndreyRubtsovRU
6 жыл бұрын
slateflash probably doesnt quite create the energy
3:44 🥹🫢😶🫨 no. 1? 7:40
02:40
fuzzy dice and bongos
@olla-vogala4090
8 жыл бұрын
+firstand lastname come again?
@charlesrice4172
8 жыл бұрын
+olla-vogala The third movement was reminding me of Frank Zappa's 'Uncle Meat' in which those words are used. Listening again, It's definetely more of a texture thing than any particular phrase.
@olla-vogala4090
8 жыл бұрын
+firstand lastname Haha ok, good to hear something someone mentioning Zappa, he's great!
@walexwetchina487
7 жыл бұрын
please hear my plea!
17:58
2 BEFORE 17: 5:42
8:45
Interesting fact : the famous conductor Yuri Temirkanov is not a Russian as he is often described . He is an ethnic Kabardinian ( east Circassian ) and a native of Nalchik in Kabardino Balkaria in the Caucasus . The Circassians are an very ancient and fascinating people who are no more related by language and culture to the Russians than the Arabs are t the English . They are a proud tribal people of the mountains with a rich and unique language and culture of their own . The Kabardinians are the eastern branch of the Circassians . The other branches are known as the Adyghe and speak slightly different dialects of Circassian from the Kabardinians and live closer to the black sea . There are many interesting videos on the Circassians on youtube where you can hear their wonderful traditional music, see their amazing traditional dances and hear their weird but fascinating languages , which sounds more like Klingon than a human language .
11: 3:54
13: 4:34
bachianas
più pesante
this piece was ok. compared to A ten piece chicken Bucket, i give it a high five
With all due respect to white people's inept sense of geography, the Caucasus is nowhere near the middle east, and the theme of the 2nd mvt doesn't sound middle eastern in the slightest. two different peoples, two different cultures, two different things altogether.
@Channel-pq6jw
Жыл бұрын
So…?
@authenticbaguette6673
Жыл бұрын
@@Channel-pq6jw Not sure what you expected, just pointing out facts. :)
@Channel-pq6jw
Жыл бұрын
@@authenticbaguette6673 I’m just confused, were you responding to something?
@authenticbaguette6673
Жыл бұрын
@@Channel-pq6jw The video description, good sir/ma'am...
Hate this piece lol. At least the first movement
12:15
@supasayajinsongoku4464
Жыл бұрын
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently?
@vine2197
5 ай бұрын
@@supasayajinsongoku4464 not random
@supasayajinsongoku4464
5 ай бұрын
@@vine2197 you have an answer?