What's the name of the piece playing in the first half of this video?

August 23, 2016 11:11 PM

Question title pretty much sums it up. What's the piece? Who's the composer?

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posted by ZaneJ. to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Reminds me of parts of Messiaen's Quartet for the end of time, but I'm not positive.
posted by clorox at 1:22 AM on August 24, 2016

I don't recognize it, but the instrumentation is wrong for it to be the Quartet for the end of time (also I think it's too tonal). It sounds like a regular string quartet.
posted by dfan at 5:49 AM on August 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sounds like the slow movement of a late Beethoven string quartet. I can't pin it down right now, but you could have fun listening to a few on YouTube until you find it...
posted by TinWhistle at 6:59 AM on August 24, 2016

I went through all the comments, which were incredibly repetitive, and though the question "Song?" was asked over and over, there was no answer given.
posted by OurOwnMrK at 2:07 PM on August 24, 2016

I went through all adagios of Tchaikovsky's, Borodin's, Dvorak's, Grieg's and a bunch of Others's's string quartets but didn't find it, but that's what I'd recommend doing. It's not Beethoven (or I'm missing something really huge), seems nordic or slavic late romantic in style, or a rip-off of that style from later times.
posted by Namlit at 4:12 PM on August 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

One of Shostakovich's quartets?
posted by clorox at 9:42 PM on August 26, 2016