V025: Les Musiciens du Quatuor: Vienne, 1er Mouvement
1991, VHS (PAL) color, 1:02:00, in English and German with French subtitles
L'I.N.A. / La S.E.P.T. / C.S.T. / M.T.V. France
Produced by Georges Zeisel
Scenario by Georges Zeisel and Catherine Zins
With: Norbert Brainin, violinist and Hatto Beyerle, violist; Le Quatuor Ysaÿe; Le Quatuor Parisii
Credits listed at end.
| Time | Description |
| 00:00 | Color bars, high-pitched drone |
| 01:20 | Credits |
| 02:19 | Quartet playing Schubert? (b/w footage of Amadeus Quartet) |
| 03:15 | Interview with Norbert Brainin of the Amadeus Quartet |
| 03:46 | "I. Vienne, Premier Mouvement" |
| 04:00 | Quartet rehearsing Haydn op. 1/1 (1760) |
| 06:00 | Map of Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian countryside, Melk |
| 06:50 | Quartet |
| 07:58 | Interview with Brainin, discussing Haydn's career, scenes of Esterhazy |
| 09:15 | Haydn op. 20/2 (1772) |
| 11:00 | Engravings and illustrations of copyists and publishers |
| 12:11 | Brainin discussing op. 33, Haydn's Motivführung |
| 15:50 | Quartet performing Haydn op. 33/2 (1782) |
| 17:15 | Mozart quartets dedicated to Haydn, quartet rehearsing Mozart K. 387 (1782) |
| 19:00 | Brainin discussing relationship between Mozart and Haydn |
| 21:00 | Scenes of Vienna, Brainin discussing Beethoven's arrival in Vienna in 1792 |
| 22:19 | Quartet performing Haydn op. 76/5 (1797) |
| 24:50 | Brainin discussing Beethoven |
| 25:50 | Quartet rehearsing Beethoven op. 18/1 (1800) |
| 30:20 | Brainin discussing the public performances by Schuppanzigh's quartet |
| 30:56 | Quartet performing Beethoven op. 59/1 (1806) |
| 32:45 | Quartet rehearsing Beethoven op. 59/1 (ii.). Brainin coaches them. |
| 36:20 | Interior of Upper Belvedere |
| 36:43 | Quartet rehearsing Beethoven op. 59/3 (1807) |
| 39:25 | Brainin discussing the working relationship of a string quartet (the Amadeus Quartet played together for 40 years). Footage of the AQ performing a Schubert Quartettsatz (1820) |
| 42:00 | Vineyards, interview in heuriger with Hatto Beyerle, discussing Schubert |
| 44:15 | Beyerle performing the "Trout Quintet" (1819) in a Hauskonzert |
| 46:36 | Beyerle discussing the "sweetness" of the Viennese sound, "der Wiener ist nicht aggressiv" |
| 48:20 | Alban Berg Quartet performing Schubert Quartet No. 14, "Death and the Maiden" (1824) |
| 51:13 | Brainin discussing the "divine inspiration" of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert |
| 52:22 | Quartet rehearsing Beethoven op. 135 (1826) |
| 56:30 | Brainin discussing Beethoven's last works |
| 57:33 | Engravings of quartet performances, concert posters, photos of string quartets. Footage of the Amadeus Quartet performing Beethoven op. 135 |
| 1:01:14 | Credits |
| 1:02:00 | End |
Credits
Ysaÿe Quartet
C. Giovaninetti, violin
L.M. Aguera, violin
M. da Silva, viola
M. Poulet, cello
Parisii Quartet
T. Brodard, violin
J.M. Berrette, violin
D. Lobet, viola
J.P. Martignoni, cello
Schubertiade
H. Beyerle, viola
L. Griensteidl, violin
Dr. H. Krisper, cello
H. Marschik, contrabass