Beethoven String Quartet Op. 132 in A Minor - Ariel Quartet (full)

1. 00:09 Assai sostenuto – Allegro 2. 10:26 Allegro ma non tanto 3. 21:42 Molto adagio – Andante – Molto adagio – Andante – Molto adagio 4. 40:34 Assai vivace 5. 42:11 Allegro appassionato – Presto

I listen this cuartet while I read Platón writing. I am sick, but music and philosophy Is cure for my soul .

It’s difficult to not tear up every single time I listen to the third movement. Absolutely beautiful…

The last movement is so beautiful. It makes me cry when I listen to it

Movement 1- 0:00 Movement 2- 10:28 Movement 3- 21:44 Movement 4- 40:37 (attaca) Movement 5- 42:11?

When I was a lad in the Army, I was a Beethoven nut and I tried to track down & visit all the houses where Beethoven had lived, I didn't succeed, but found a lot but far from all, it took me all over Austria and Germany, there were 57 houses altogether, one for each year of his life. This has to be my favourite quartet of any composer.

This is the finest and most moving quartet playing I’ve ever heard.

Sublime. Amazed that one person can write this. Amazed that four people can play this. Amazed that four instruments can have this affect on me. Bravo.

Great performance of a masterpiece. I imagine that the later Beethoven Quartets must represent huge challenges for the performers. It never ceases to amaze me what the great Ludwig van Beethoven was capable of composing even after having begun to lose his hearing in his mid 20s, and how his deafness was often mistaken for rudeness. It is known that Beethoven could be difficult but he had so much to contend with: deafness, other serious health problems, endless changes of address, political turmoil in the background, the custody battle over his nephew Karl, the harmful effects of his difficult upbringing. If he were alive now, one wonders whether he might be diagnosed with severe depression and even autism ? He overcame so much to create some of the greatest music ever written. Rest in peace Ludwig van Beethoven. I

The third movement is truly beyond description. So beautiful

This really speaks to the redemptive power of music.

My Radiology professor, Lindsay Rowe, always used Beethoven as he described Paget's Disease, an abnormal growth of bony tissue in adulthood. Often the first sign is that the patients hat is getting smaller. In Luigi's case, his bony auditory canals started growing and crushing the nerve, first causing tinnitus and then eventual deafness. He would also be suffering from extreme joint pains. And he gave us these gifts.

Did you know that this quartet became an inspiration to a classic novel. Not just an inspiration but also its plan. The book is "A Mind At Peace" (original name "Huzur" (peace/serenity in Turkish)) Most of the people don't know it but the author put this music behind his novel's words secretly.. The novel has four main episodes. The episodes' changing emotions are same with this track's emotions, identically and respectively! And the author does not even reveals this. He 'explains' op132 in the novel. But he does not even 'tell the name' of it.He only describes the music

No words can explain this music. Kind of perfection.

Totally satisfying, magnificent performance of what is probably the greatest piece of music ever written.

Wonderful performance of this sublime masterpiece. No greater, deeper music has ever been written!

Beethoven - Quartet No. 15 in A minor ("Heiliger Dankgesang"), Op. 132, written in 1825 1 - 00:10 - Assai sostenuto - Allegro -09:49 2 - 10:27 - Allegro ma non tanto -19:48 3 - 21:43 - ''Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an der Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart''. (''Canto de acción de gracias ofrecido ala Divinidad por un convaleciente, en modo lidio'') - 21:43- Molto Adagio(coral)- 25:24 -Andante –27:27-Molto adagio(coral) – 31:21-Andante– 33:37-Molto adagio (Actually the molto adagio coral appears 7 times, the last in a very ecstatic way <"Mit innigster Empfindung" >) -39'33 4 - 40:36 - Alla marcia, assai vivace ... 5 - 42:11 - Allegro appassionato

One can see (and hear) the passion and discipline these artists need to share this beauty with us

This quartet marks the pinnacle of all music in my opinion...and, of course, the playing of the Ariel Quartet does full justice to it.

I used to live in a remote farm, we bred lambs and when visitors came to stay, the big leg of lamb appeared on the table. Once the visitors started chewing and delighting in the meat, conversation flagged, and something akin to what happens in this string quartet took place: an insane digging into the substance of the meal. I can feel each phrase as if it were a cannibal banquet...