: Do not play this to a metronome. The most moving quartet versions allow for slight stretching and compressing of the tempo (rubato) to mimic a human voice.
Without the literal power of human lyrics, the instruments must convey the song's "heartache and hope" through phrasing and dynamics. spartito la voce del silenzio quartet better
They met in a station of small sounds: a forgotten conservatory behind a bakery where the heat from the ovens hummed like a low C, where dust motes spun in shafts of light and old scores lay folded like secret maps. Each of them carried a different kind of silence. : Do not play this to a metronome