tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36188450.post1291322453092013282..comments2014-02-19T12:46:29.779-08:00Comments on John Amis online: Beethoven's Late QuartetsJohn Amishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07806509364996695469noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36188450.post-73171103861021911912010-09-16T16:36:03.799-07:002010-09-16T16:36:03.799-07:00What a splendid evaluation of the late quartets! ...What a splendid evaluation of the late quartets! You put it better than I ever have: it truly is not the easiest music to listen to, but it certainly is about the most forthrightly intellectual music anyone has ever written.Emmett Hoopshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04543605638055297386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36188450.post-56617977409712878622009-06-29T15:24:42.160-07:002009-06-29T15:24:42.160-07:00I remember as a teenager in W.Cornwall, on a fadin...I remember as a teenager in W.Cornwall, on a fading Medium Wave Third Programme broadcast in the early 60s, hearing the Busch Quartet play Op 135, esp the slow movement. I was never the same again. A few months earlier, God had become real to me in a new way - like Beethoven said of the Missa Solemnis, it was "from the heart, to the heart".<br />It's mono and not hi-fi, but I don't think any quartet has gone deeper than Adolf Busch and his friendsbarcudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877239490980449070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36188450.post-11655424815786668702009-01-19T00:58:00.000-08:002009-01-19T00:58:00.000-08:00Thank you for this thoughtful essay, which I've re...Thank you for this thoughtful essay, which I've returned to several times, as I listen to various performances of the late quartets. Alban Berg, the Hollywood, LaSalle, Italiano. Waiting for the Capet to arrive.<BR/>It's not that I'm searching for the perfect performance, but that each group lives these pieces in their own way and I have the expansive luxury of participating in those different realms of beauty.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177878893173979028noreply@blogger.com