![]() This marks the central point of the work but at the heart of this movement is a set of three pp chords over which Sibelius wrote the words Voces intimae. The longest movement, at well over ten minutes, is an Adagio. Then comes a very short and scurrying Vivace which may well remind you of the finale of the Third Symphony (1907) written just a few years before. I see the pattern of the work like this: two relatively short movements – an Andante leading into an Allegro moderato. The D minor String Quartet Voces intimae is in five movements. I'll just mention three discs: with Voces Intimae the Tempera (BIS - review) couple the B flat Quartet, the Gabrieli (Chandos CHAN8742) couple Sibelius’s Piano Quintet and the Fitzwilliam Quartet (Decca Eloquence- review) couple it, surprisingly, with Delius. At the latest count there seem to be at least eight versions of Voces Intimae in the current catalogue so an attempt to compare is likely to be longwinded. Opportunities to hear the chamber works ‘live’ are quite rare so it’s good that we have a choice of performances on CD. There are also a few pieces for strings and piano like the Piano Trio of 1884. Then comes this A minor quartet of 1889 and there's at least one other apart from the B flat quartet known as Voces Intimae. There are, for example some single movements for quartet composed when he was a young man. That's fair enough but he certainly wrote pieces for chamber groupings. It may well be that it is not chamber music that immediately comes to mind when you think of Sibelius. ![]() MUSIKPRODUKTION DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM 3071957-2 Konzerthaus der Abtei Marienmünster, 22-24 January 2016 String Quartet in D minor Voces Intimae Op. Jean Sibelius Works is published by the National Library of Finland, the Sibelius Society of Finland, and the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel (Wiesbaden).Support us financially by purchasing this from The latest volume is the 37th in the series. The aim is to publish Sibelius’s production in its entirety in editions based on a thorough study of all surviving sources. The Jean Sibelius Works project began in 1996. Just the kind that raises a smile on one’s face even at the moment of death.” As he declared to his wife Aino when he finished the Quartet: “It became wonderful. The new edition contains both the earlier version and an earlier correction he planned to make in it”. According to the editor of the volume, Tuija Wicklund, “Sibelius struggled with the ending of the quartet, and he even changed it during the publication process. ![]() Many people thought this was Sibelius’s only string quartet, possibly because it was the only one to be printed and recorded during his lifetime.Ĭo-editor of the volume, conductor Pekka Helasvuo, points out “ an interesting change of rhythm in the third movement that is likely to draw the players’ attention”. 56) was composed almost two decades later, in 1909. The fourth and last one ( Voces intimae, Op. 4) a good year after this, and some movements were performed more than once, most recently in 1915. He composed the third quartet (B-flat major, Op. His next quartet (A minor, JS 183) was the work that marked the completion of his studies in 1889, and it was performed at the Institute’s soiree. Sibelius composed his first string quartet (E-flat major, JS 184) for home music-making in the summer of 1885, before he started his studies at the Helsinki Music Institute.
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