Added: Sep 6, 2008

From: bugland23

Duration: 6:33

This was inspired by listening to an MP3 Recording of Beethoven's 7th String Quartet while travelling to Central London on a bus. I was listening to this piece of music for the first time. I thought I had enough of Beethoven after repeated performances of his symphonies everywhere. The symphonies were Beethoven the Showman at work. In the quartets, however, is Beethoven the musical genius - this music is so intimate that I felt I was occupying the musical mind of the master. The Adagio, third movement, brought tears to my eyes. So I got off the bus and made a number of mobile phone videos of Westminster Abbey Cloisters. It was a rainy day and this certainly added to the atmosphere.

Channel: Music

Tags: abbey  beethoven  church  cloisters  quartet  string  video  westminster 

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