Brahms - String Quartet op. 67 in B flat major

 

 

Johannes Brahms

(1833 - 1897)

 

String Quartet op. 67 in B flat major

 

 Quartetto Italiano (1970)

                             

The String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1875 and published by the firm of Fritz Simrock.^[1] It received its premiere performance on October 30, 1876 in Berlin.^[2] The work is scored for two violins, viola, and cello, and has four movements:

• I. Vivace
• II. Andante
• III. Agitato (Allegretto non troppo) – Trio – Coda
• IV. Poco Allegretto con Variazioni

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• 현악4중주 제3번 내림Bb장조 Op.67은 브람스가 1876년 봄부터 여름에 동안 하이델브르크 부근에서 휴양을 하면서 작곡한 것으로 전한다. 그 곳에서 브람스는 많은 친구들을 만나며 유쾌한 날들을 보냈으며, 그 같은 생활이 반영된 듯, 작품에서도 전원적이며 목가적인 정서가 풍기며, 밝은 기운이 드러난다.

The Han Quartet
Weimin Zheng & Shuting Wu, violin
Nian Liu, violaDandi Wang, cello

 

•  Brahms composed the work in Ziegelhausen, near Heidelberg, and dedicated it to Professor Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann, an amateur cellist who had hosted Brahms on a visit to Utrecht. Brahms was at the time the artistic director of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.The work is light-hearted and cheerful, "a useless trifle," as he put it, "to avoid facing the serious countenance of a symphony".

2013 Shanghai Festival

violins - Xinyue Ni, LunLi; viola - Jing Peng; cello - Naduo Zhang

                    

* 현악 사중주 세곡은 모두 그가 마흔 살이 지나서야 작곡된 작품들로 완성도가 높은 것은 물론, 후에 쇤베르크 등 많은 작곡가에게 영향을 미쳤다.