![]() ![]() ![]() This young ensemble was selected for the ‘Rising Stars’ scheme of the European Concert Hall Organization during the 2000-01 season, which has led to successful début recitals at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Musikverein and Concertgebouw and other prestigious venues. Though the 1885 E-flat major quartet is very much a student work that shows scant evidence of Sibelius’ future distinctive, mature voice, it’s nonetheless well written in the classical style, with Haydn being the primary role-model. Making their first recording for BIS, it is the Finnish Tempera Quartet which has been entrusted with bringing these forgotten works to the public. The 12 works on this disc comprise a variety of fragments, short pieces, and an earlier, full-fledged string quartet. The highly informative liner notes helps us to discover foreshadowings of the Lemminkäinen Suite in the Scherzo in B minor as well as pre-echoes of Finlandia in Theme and Variations in C sharp minor. Kari Kilpelainen has suggested that it may have been intended as a slow movement for the String Quartet in B flat. In 1781, after a lapse of ten years, a 49-year-old Joseph Haydn turned to the string quartet again, composing a set of six that were published the following year as Op. Ranging from very brief sketches to the four-movement String Quartet in E flat major – the only previously recorded work on the disc – these are attractive pieces which bring pleasure to the general listener as well as new insights to the Sibelius fan. Quartet at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. But this the first of three discs dedicated to the constellation, focuses on the early works, composed when Sibelius was in his early twenties. Sibelius’s masterpiece among string quartets is of course his Op. String Quartet in E-flat Major adagio ma non troppo allegretto romanze allegro molto vivace Augustin Hadelich violin / Nurit Bar-Josef violin / Cynthia Phelps viola / Bion Tsang cello ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major, Op. This album can be seen retrospectively as part of the Complete Sibelius series and given number 63. Allegretto In B Flat Major (1889) 1:00: 6: Fuga För Martin Wegelius, JS 85 (1889) 5. After the works for violin and piano, the piano trios and – most recently – the piano quartets, the time has come for the genre which conductor George Szell described as ’the most perfect expression of human behaviour’. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2006 CD release of 'String Quartets (1888-1889)' on Discogs. ![]() In the course of the ongoing BIS Sibelius Edition – of which this disc is the 56th volume – recent releases have explored the chamber music of the great symphonist. ![]()
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