Nice curvy fingers. I should show this video to my students.
They all got the flat fingered blues.
The fifth quartet of this series looks back to Mozart, patterning itself after Mozart’s quartet in the same key, K. 464. The first movement is marked “allegro” and features a skipping theme that could have been used as the theme for a TV series in the Fifties. The second subject appears in E Major after a transitional passage in G Major. The exposition repeats. The development starts with the transitional material mixed with the first subject, then adds a bit of the second subject. The recap follows the usual pattern.
Lou puts his dance movement in second position, like Mozart, as a minuet in A Major. The middle section is a rustic dance
Like the Mozart quartet, the third movement is the weightiest of the quartet, a theme-and-variations set marked “andante cantabile.” The theme is not much more than a run up and down the A Major scale.
Variation #1 goes to the cello, which starts a canon that all the other instruments join.
Variation #2 goes to the first violin which dances around the theme, punctuated by the other instruments playing accompanying chords.
Variation #3 goes to the viola, joined by the others, either in trilling accompaniment or the cello working in tandem.
Variation #4 goes to the entire quartet playing in harmony, giving the effect of a small church organ, a technique Schubert was to turn into a masterstroke.
Variation #5 is circus music, and it’s worthy of a belly laugh.
Variation #6 comes as a surprise, and it’s rather quiet.
The coda is sweet and serene.
The finale, marked “allegro”, runs like the wind. It’s a rondo, and it ends quietly and sweetly.
Tomorrow night it’s the sixth quartet in this series.
Good Night all...I am exhausted...and the weekend is only beginning.