xxi + 295pp ISBN-10: 1580462294 ISBN-13: 978-1580462297 Volume 2: Shostakovich to the Avant-Garde Evan Jones, editor University of Rochester Press, 2011. Volume 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos Evan Jones, editor University of Rochester Press, 2011.

The disc is well recorded but a little close, especially given the beautiful acoustic potential of the recording venue, the Schauman Hall in Jakobstad. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupSibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. Intimate Voices - The Twentieth Century String Quartet. It’s a delicate, decorative piece, even if it’s ultimately less cohesive than its two companions here. The Kamus Quartet’s sense of ensemble and purpose is never in doubt, even when tested in Jukka Tiensuu’s Rack – a work in which a wind seems to blow through a single, 16-stringed instrument (the composer deliberately avoids the description ‘string quartet’). There’s a difference between tension and tenacity, and this movement would benefit from being calmed down, slowed down and injected with more fresh air and space. JEAN SIBELIUS - String Quartet in D minor Intimate Voices IGOR STRAVINSKY - Three Pieces for String Quartet MAURICE RAVEL - String Quartet in F major. But I’m not sure the sound works in Sibelius’s Adagio di molto. The group’s tense, jumpy style is also well suited to the Allegretto and final Allegro movements of Sibelius’s ‘Intimate Voices’: the players have the inside track on all those familiar Sibelian shapes and patterns in the former movement. The Kamus Quartet is just as ferocious and uncompromising. 56, is a five-movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello written in 1909 by the Finnish. Kilpi’s Expressionist literary style charges through Kaipainen’s 13-minute score – severe, sturdy, Schoenbergian – until it reaches a place of gentle lyricism. The String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae Op. Much of the intensity in the late Jouni Kaipainen’s Seventh String Quartet is apparently rooted in the ‘steamy’ love affair of King David and Bathsheba in Volter Kilpi’s novel about the couple. Join for a pre-concert conversation with the artists at 6:30 p.m. This recording is the culmination of that project, and the latest album from one of Australia’s most respected ensembles.Description: Intimacy and Expressionism in a trio of Finnish string quartet works Meta4 brings its distinctive performance style to works by composers Kaija Saariaho and Dmitri Shostakovich, and Jean Sibelius’s string quartet Intimate Voices, op. Program run time is approximately 90 minutes including a.

This album also presents the early A minor quartet – a work in which we can hear the influences of Beethoven, Grieg and Mendelssohn, but also the emergence of the true and distinctive Sibelius sound.Ģ015 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius, and the Flinders Quartet have spent the year immersed in his much-neglected chamber music – including travelling to Sibelius’ homeland, Finland, to perform all of his works for string quartet. Jean Sibelius String Quartet, Intimate Voices (1909) Anton Bruckner String Quintet in F Major (1878-1879) Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Along with what others have said, here are some more modern ones that I love: Bartok String Quartet 4. Flinders’ cellist Zoe Knighton describes this movement as the “heart and soul of the quartet … The layering of two sublimely beautiful themes works its way through to the absolute stillness of the ending – a true ‘hold your breath’ moment.” At the centre of the work stands an exquisite slow movement, marked with the ‘voces intimae’ inscription that gives the quartet its name. ‘Intimate Voices’ is a perfect musical arch that reaches across five movements – from the sheer delicacy of the opening to the frenzied finale.

As it turned out, the hour of his death was almost 50 years away, but his analysis of his last great chamber work as ‘something wonderful’ certainly holds true. 14 'Death and the Maiden' & Sibelius: String Quartet 'Intimate Voices' de Ehnes Quartet en qualité Hi-Res sur Qobuz. The kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death.” Sibelius wrote his string quartet ‘Intimate Voices’ during a period of crisis, both financial and health. Écoutez en illimité ou téléchargez Schubert: String Quartet No.

Sibelius string quartet intimate voices