3/11/2024 0 Comments Sibelius string quartet![]() ![]() ![]() And possibly his later great successes as a symphonist diverted him from the field of chamber music even after having so successfully revisited it in ‘Voces intimae’. The reason for his first long silence may be Sibelius’s discovery in the 1890s of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic that was to provide him with both subject matter and inspiration, but which lent itself more readily to an orchestral treatment. But then there is a gap of almost twenty years before Sibelius wrote his by far most famous work in the genre, the Quartet in D minor ‘Voces intimae’, and in spite of its favourable reception, he didn’t compose another work for string quartet apart from the brief Andante festivo, in 1922. The two previous discs in this trilogy of his complete works for quartet contain substantial programmes of the music written between 18, and more than half of the present disc is taken up by two works written in 1890. Jean Sibelius’s relationship to the string quartet genre is something of an enigma. BBC Music Magazine: outstanding Klassik Heute: outstanding.
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