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#SongOfTheDay 08.24.2012: "Ravel String Quartet in F Major: Assez vif - Tres rythme" by Lucia Micarelli.
The second movement of Ravel's quartet in F major. It feels like it should be the soundtrack to a short silent film about the journey of a leaf. I'd watch.
Ah, the familiar pizzicatos of Ravel's Quatuor à Cordes... Assez vif - Très rythmé, he wrote--well, only for the first one and a half minutes. The middle section, lasting nearly two and a half minutes, communicates through a subtle romance with a quasi-chromatic scale that literally melts before your ears like salted butter and the violin croons with a simple yet sentimental melody while the background pizzes hints of the main theme, and before you can get enough of it the quartet returns to the rhythmic pizzicatos to end the movement in a resounding cadence. I love it. I hope you do too.
This is beautiful and there's a quartet rehearsing this right outside of my door.