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[BLUE MONDAY]🔷😔 According to some, the third Monday in January is the saddest day of the year. A perfect way to get through it is by listening to Beethoven's String Quartet No.16 third movement, "Lento assai, e cantabile e tranquillo" conducted by the inimitable Seiji Ozawa. It's an emotional piece accompagnied by the conductor's International Academy of Switzerland. 🔷😔 https://bit.ly/3V3ctpy | medici.tv

Beethoven - Quartet No. 16 in F major Op. 135 - 3rd movement International Academy Switzerland Orchestra String Ensemble conducted by Seiji Ozawa | History of Music

Ludwig van Beethoven completed his final string quartet—No. 16 in F major, Op. 135—in 1826. Its finale bears the heading “Der schwer gefasste Entschluss” (“The Difficult Decision”). The movement's opening chords frame the question “Muss es sein?”("Must it be?"), as per Beethoven's notes in the margin of the manuscript. The closing theme provides an answer: “Es muss sein!” (“It must be!”) This 2014 CMS performance from the Rose Studio features the Miró Quartet. Catch them at Alice Tully Hall on O