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Name: Ilana Cofield
E-mail: gcofield@telocity.com
Date: Sunday, December 2, 2001 at 03:10:54
Text: This is a really intense and firey quartet. It was the 1st beethoven quartet I've heard and it got me hooked on the Beethoven quartets. This one is very catchy and easy to get into and enjoy but you discover so much after further listenings. Each movement is special in its own way. The 1st movment is catchy, and stormy. it draws you in right away with a I and a V chord (both fortisimo.). It lasts a long time contains a lot of good material. The 2nd movment which is in E major is very calming and reflective. Everything flows so smoothly, and it has some very beautiful moments. The ending is the best! the tune descends through the instruments from highest to lowist and winds down perfectly with the cello at the end. The 3rd movment is very peppy and syncopated. Its also back in E minor Its really neat. The trio has a whole different feel to it. Its in E major. The viola starts off with this happy tune that is titled "theme russe". (this quartet as well as the other op59s were commissioned by Rasomovsky, and there for, Russian themes aree found in some of them) anyway, the russian them has a perpetual 2nd violin triplet thing that adds lots of life to it. The russian gets passed around in a fugue like fasion and changes keys as well. After the trio, The beggining section is repeated as usual. The 4th movement is very exciting. There is this dotted rythem accompinament that keeps moveing the piece forward and is always present. The violin has a nice twisting theme up in its high register. There is lots of imitation going on and its really cool throughout the whole movment. And Beethoven ends it with a bang, A presto section with a dramatic powerful ending. Wow! I really reccomend this piece, Opus59 #2.

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