BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 “Razumovsky”
I. Allegro
Walter Levin, guest professor
Pandora Quartet, students
Víctor Vieira, violin
Juan Carlos Maggiorani, violin
Jano Lisboa, viola
Marco André Fernandes Pereira, cello
Professor Levin comments that this quartet is a very emotional piece and needs more strength, which is why the sforzati must be exploited more. Levin asks the students several questions about various aspects of the score: whether to place the trills before or after the beat, about Beethoven’s compositional procedures and the reasons that lead him to make certain variations… He makes an exhaustive analysis of the score. They discuss all the technical aspects that have an emotional and dramatic charge, and which must be further enhanced to give the work its character. They work on dynamics, phrasing and articulations, always giving them a musical reason. The sforzati have to be tenuto. They talk about the different articulation of a passage in the re-exposition, before the coda, which has a rhetorical meaning. They identify the specific place where the same tempo from the exposition reappears. Levin emphasizes following all the dynamics contained in the score in detail because there is always a musical explanation for them. Finally, they work on the last chords and the balance between the parts.
Language: English
