The Arnica Quartet is going to tackle Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue this season, and I was made aware of two cool youtube clips concerning this greatest and wildest of late Beethoven quartet movements. The first (thanks to Elaine Fine at Musical Assumptions) is a visual representation of the fugue:
The second is a clip from a biopic about Beethoven, with – wait for it – Ed Harris playing Beethoven. It concerns the copying of the fugue with dramatic music, etc.:
And finally, the Alban Berg Quartet playing the whole shebang (in two parts, due to YouTube’s length restrictions):
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hahaha, ed harris’ version of eine kleine farten musik is grosse, indeed.
Isn’t that visual representation simply awesome! The shirtless Ed Harris movie I can do without, but the Takács Quartet plays superbly.
ok, time to get molto serioso . . .
imagine presenting “beethoven lives upstairs” with ed (ludwig van) harris as the narrator!
now, THAT will sell tickets.
i’m ready for a consultant commission if anyone goes for this.
i bet Mr. Ed would sign on for such a outing . . .
b-wigged