![]() ![]() ![]() Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. ![]() ![]() 1 - 3 Piano Quintet by Sibelius Academy String Quartet released in 1991. The music captures Schubert’s fearful state of mind in a remarkable ‘freeze frame’ effect. Discover Joonas Kokkonen: String Quartets Nos. ‘Give me your hand, you fair and gentle creature I am a friend and do not come to punish’ sings Death soothingly. The D minor quartet makes ingenious use of his earlier song ‘Death and the Maiden’ from 1817 in the slow movement’s variations. Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Satu Vnsk (violin), Marko Ylnen (cello), Folke Grsbeck (piano), Taneli Turunen (cello), Peter Lnnqvist (piano), Harri Viitanen (harmonium) Tempera Quartet. For Those Who Like: Sibelius, string quartets, folk dances The Story: Formed in 2012, the Aizuri Quartet takes its name from a vibrant style of Japanese woodblock printing. With his emotions veering from happy memories of earlier years to shuddering terror at the prospect of death, he composed two string quartets and the Octet over a two- month period. there's no grand statement, or positivity here, and that's reinforced by the obsessive way that Sibelius turns around his limited material, and by the Dante Quartet's refusal to glamorise the. "I am the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world…whose health will never be right again" wrote Schubert to a friend in 1824. Taut and highly concentrated, it has an almost Haydnesque construction, and the quartet’s first movement’s sheer perfection of form approaches that of the 3rd Symphony’s opening movement. The bleak and highly personal 4th Symphony is the masterwork from this period, but the string quartet ‘Intimate Voices’ of 1908 should not be underestimated. Discover Verdi/Sibelius: String Quartets by Juilliard String Quartet released in 1992. Sibelius had undergone several operations to remove a tumour in his throat. String Quartet in D minor ('Voces Intimae'), Op. $ ĭeath preyed heavily on the minds of both Schubert and Sibelius when they were composing the two string quartets on this new CD from the Ehnes Quartet. I must also lavish praise on Lucy Russell for her outstanding playing on this track. 'I haven’t heard sonics like these since the 1950s, except perhaps on Ornette Coleman’s two Sound Museum CDs, which also had a retro feel…. - David Balakrishnan (founder of the Turtle Island String Quartet, 2012) NEWTON CLASSICS 8802074 74:52 Bilbao-born Arriaga, like the composer whose music his most resembles, was also a precocious child. The hard, diamond-like timbre of the two violins (the leader's role is shared democratically) is. 3 in E flat major (1824) 26:36 Guarneri Quartet (Arnold Steinhardt (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)) rec. Emerson String Quartet (winner of the Gramophone Chamber Award, 2000) 'The accent may no longer be Russian, but the playing is undeniably committed in its coolness, exposing nerve endings with cruel clarity. 56 (1908-1909)Performed by the Casal Quartet (live recording)Movement One. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in D Minor 'Voces Intimae' ('Intimate Voices'), Op. Masterfully brought to focus by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, enriched and enlivened by jazz violin wizard Mads Tolling, and highlighted by the composer’s own hard swinging virtuosic saxophone playing, the new record of Uwe Steinmetz and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet is a must-listen for anyone with ears for what’s happening in contemporary cross-genre music making." Shostakovich String Quartet No 8, Op 110. Discover Jean Sibelius: Complete String Quartets by Sibelius Academy String Quartet released in 1992. "Beautiful, evocative, compelling, dense at times while deeply tinged in heart and soul, Uwe Steinmetz’s brilliant original compositions and visionary arrangements of classical masterworks are eminently suited for the lens of the modern day string quartet form. ![]()
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