{"id":5625,"date":"2014-06-21T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:45:26","slug":"sibelius-quartets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5625","title":{"rendered":"Sibelius Quartets"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Kullervo<\/a>

\u201c<\/span>Kuller\u00advo paime\u00adnes\u00adsa\u201d (1896) by Sigfrid August Kein\u00e4nen<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The con\u00adcert-going pub\u00adlic doesn\u2019t asso\u00adciate Sibelius with cham\u00adber music, but he actu\u00adal\u00adly com\u00adposed quite a bit of it, includ\u00ading four string quar\u00adtets. One of them, the Quar\u00adtet in D Minor, Op.56, known as \u201cVoces Inti\u00admae<\/em>\u201d, has made it into the stan\u00addard reper\u00adtoire. With it\u2019s jaun\u00adty rhythms, pecu\u00adliar twists and turns, and fre\u00adnet\u00adic pas\u00adsages that must work up a sweat among the play\u00aders, it has won a place in the sun, though it\u2019s not in the same league with the famous Beethoven, Bart\u00f3k, or Dvo\u0159\u00e1k quar\u00adtets. It\u2019s always been a favourite of mine, because it seems to con\u00advey a mood that hits me occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly, for which there is no com\u00admon name. It was com\u00adposed around the time of the stark, intro\u00adspec\u00adtive Fourth Sym\u00adpho\u00adny, and it shares some of its strange\u00adness. But Sibelius com\u00adposed three oth\u00aders, sel\u00addom per\u00adformed. The first, in E\u2011flat, is a youth\u00adful effort with lit\u00adtle to com\u00admend it. It\u2019s just warmed-over Hay\u00adden, con\u00adstruct\u00aded by the book. But the sec\u00adond and third ones, in A Minor and B\u2011flat, are lis\u00adten\u00adable and enter\u00adtain\u00ading. Sibelius pret\u00adty obvi\u00adous\u00adly drew his inspi\u00adra\u00adtion from Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, but you can hear dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive\u00adly Sibelian ele\u00adments in both. The B\u2011flat one has evolved suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly to stand next to Voces Inti\u00admae<\/em> with\u00adout shame, and it should be played more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The con\u00adcert-going pub\u00adlic doesn\u2019t asso\u00adciate Sibelius with cham\u00adber music, but he actu\u00adal\u00adly com\u00adposed quite a bit of it, includ\u00ading four string quar\u00adtets. One of them, the Quar\u00adtet in D Minor, Op.56, known as \u201cVoces Inti\u00admae\u201d, has made it into the \u2026<\/p>\n

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