{"id":504,"date":"2009-05-14T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T03:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-05-16T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T14:36:40","slug":"schumann-piano-quartet-mvt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Schumann Piano Quartet, Mvt. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first listened to the third movement of this work after having played it for the first time in a chamber group.\u00a0 Initially I thought of it as just a pretty melody, something one could easily fall asleep too.\u00a0 But, I feel now that as I&#8217;ve grown, and gained more &#8220;pathos&#8221; (if you will), it&#8217;s such a bittersweet movement.\u00a0 I liken to waving a loved one goodbye, as if it would be the last time I would see them.\u00a0 All that remains is the wonderful feeling of having known that person, even if they are now gone.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"340\" height=\"285\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u9cGMoN0DnQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u9cGMoN0DnQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The playing in this recording isn&#8217;t stellar, but the audio quality is decent.\u00a0 Overall it gets the job done in representing my referential description above.\u00a0 I personally have listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emersonquartet.com\/artist.php?view=record&amp;rid=437\">The Emerson&#8217;s recording<\/a> the most, but the Beaux Arts Trio has a nice recording as well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2509454862918610\";\n\/* 468x60, created 5\/9\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8999057281\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first listened to the third movement of this work after having played it for the first time in a chamber group. Initially I thought of it as just a pretty melody, something one could easily fall asleep too. But, I feel now that as I&#8217;ve grown, and gained more &#8220;pathos&#8221; (if you will), it&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-music","tag-piano-quartet","tag-robert-schumann","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}