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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
This is a super neat idea Ando! I'm just now listening to the Danish Quartet version, and it's really beautiful. I can't compare or judge yet, especially since I hadn't heard this piece before, but I'll get to the other versions at some point too.
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It was Hawk's idea to do the quartets - and boy, Op. 131 has been a challenge.
As a sidebar Yaron Zilberman directed a 2012 film titled
A Late Quartet which features 131 and a nice ensemble of actors mimicking The Bretano Quartet's performance of the piece. The piece isn't played in its entirety, of course, but the soundtrack contains the full performance:
The sound is much warmer than the Juilliard and the Berg quartets but I don't know which I prefer yet. First, I need to fully understand how and where certain themes are repeated and their relationship to the whole - the structure of this highly unusual seven movement piece then I can cut that part of my brain off and enjoy. Though I suppose the point is that understanding and pleasure occur simultaneously. And, obviously, after many listens.
