#Sibelius 8 string quartet series#

In addition to this colourful and lyrical five-movement string quartet, he also published his Fourth Symphony, a tonally ambiguous and foreboding psychoanalytical work.

#Sibelius 8 string quartet series#

For Sibelius, a throat tumour meant a series of operations leading to a troubled time in the composer’s life. He composed the quartet based on a lied of the same name he had composed some years earlier. As the story goes, during a period of sickness in 1924, Schubert was aware that death was imminent. Not only sharing the same key centre of D minor, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” and Sibelius’s “Intimate Voices” both deal with the topic of death and human suffering, composed 85 years apart. This new release by the Ehnes Quartet feels much more natural than that. And Schubert? Well, you can find him wherever you find good, wholesome German music.

The latter gets the “nationalist composer” treatment, often found paired with other Scandinavians like Grieg, sometimes even with a Slav or two thrown in for good measure. You rarely get a pairing of Schubert and Sibelius. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden” D810 Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, “Intimate Voices” Op. Grand Ave.įor future events, call Quartet: James Ehnes & Amy Schwartz Moretti, violins Richard O’Neill, viola Robert deMaine, celloįranz Schubert: String Quartet No. SIBELIUS : String Quartet in D minor, Op. And because of the superb acoustics in the Hall, the sound is so close and rich it feel like a private, personal performance for just one listener.Ī pre-concert wine reception - sponsored by Cobblestone Wine - is included, beginning at 6:30 in BP Hall. 80) with its anguished outcries and frightening dissonances. You will encounter the composer in styles that are characteristic of a broader view of his musical expression with the serious and contemplative E Minor (op. Released in 1992 on Finlandia (catalog no. The two different teams - also excellent LA Phil players, each a virtuoso - will offer a well-chosen sampling of Mendelssohn with No. The Complete String Quartets, a classical music Compilation by The Sibelius Academy Quartet. Mendelssohn’s string quartets are disputably the best examples of the genre between Schubert and Brahms, offering an exceptional balance between that Romantic emotion and the Classical sophistication, between drama and form, and two of them will open the program at Disney Hall. Still, there is a profoundly individual personality from movement to movement, and while the chordal progressions may conjure up Beethoven, the rawboned melodic lines, inner dissonances, and twisted textures should evoke Bartok. Yet the patchwork that connects all five movements of the 31-minute “Voces Intimae” is superficial, as each movement starts with an adjustment of material from those that came before. The scale of the work suggests Beethoven’s influence on the Finnish master, especially the former’s economical tendency to conserve all opening materials in some form as the work progresses. These players worked together with amazing beauty, grace, fire and syncopation for Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence at the last chamber concert. First Associate Concertmaster Nathan Cole and his wife Assistant Concertmaster Akiko Tarumoto (pictured below) will be on violins Assistant Principal Ben Ullory on viola and Assistant Principal Dahae Kim on cello.

And this is the work which will close LA Phil’s Chamber Concert this Tuesday, Octoat 8. He wrote it in between the Third and Fourth symphonies, but as with the latter it is far more introspective, suggested by the subtitle, “Intimate Voices.” It has a deeply personal, even shadowy, air that would be almost impossible to achieve in a symphony.

Indeed, it’s the only substantial chamber work he produced after the turn of the century. 56 (1908-1909) is one of his most mature, significant, and inspirational chamber works. Sibelius’s String Quartet in D minor, Op.