String Quartet | |
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Voces intimae | |
String quartet by Jean Sibelius | |
Key | D minor |
Catalogue | Op. 56 |
Composed | 1908 | –1909
Publisher | Lienau (1909) |
Duration | Approx. 30 minutes |
Movements | 5 |
Premiere | |
Date | 25 April 1910 |
Location | Helsinki, Finland |
Performers |
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The String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae ( lit. 'Intimate voices' or 'Internal voices'), [1] [2] Op. 56, is a five- movement composition for string quartet written from 1908 to 1909 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which the composer characterized as "something wonderful ... the kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death", [3] premiered at the Music Institute in Helsinki on 25 April 1910, with Viktor Nováček and Sulo Hurstinen on violin, Carl Lindelöf on viola, and Bror Persfelt on cello. The critics praised Sibelius, who was not in attendance, for... . [4]
Stylistically, Voces intimae quartet forms a "link" between the classicism of the Third Symphony (1907) and the expressionism of the Fourth (1911), the two major works between which it was composed. [2] Like the latter, it is "dark [and] uncompromising, often introspective", similar to the "anguished" incidental music Ödlan (The Lizard), which Sibelius began writing shortly after completing the quartet. [5] (In 1908, Sibelius had just survived a surgery for throat tumors, an experience that left him not only mindful of his own mortality, but also begrudgingly abstemious of alcohol and tobacco.) [6]
Although during his student years Sibelius composed many pieces for string quartet, Voces intimae—chronologically, the last of his four quartets, having been preceded by those in
E-flat major (JS 184, 1885),
A minor (JS 183, 1889), and
B-flat major (Op. 4, 1890)—is the only
piece for this ensemble type that dates to his mature period. [2]
The D minor quartet is in five movements, with the first proceeding immediately into the second. [2] The third movement—the work's slow, emotional anchor—is the longest in duration. The movements are as follows:
Robert Lienau published the quartet in 1909.
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The sortable table below lists most, although perhaps not all, commercially available recordings of the String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae:
No. | Ensemble | Violin | Violin | Viola | Cello | Rec. [a] | Time [b] | Venue | Label | Ref. |
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1 | Griller | Sidney Griller | Jack O’Brien | Philip Burton | Colin Hampton | 1950 | time | label ( [1]) | ||
2 | Budapest | Josef Roisman | Alexander Schneider | Boris Kroyt | Mischa Schneider | 1955 | time | label ( [2]) | ||
3 | Claremont | Marc Gottlieb | Vladimir Weisman | Scott Nickrenz | Irving Klein | yyyy | time | label ( [3]) | ||
4 | Copenhagen | Tutter Givskov | Mogens Lydolph | Mogens Bruun | Asger Lund-Christiansen | 1960s | 32:27 | label ( [4]) | ||
5 | Lansdowne | Jack Rothstein | Antony Gilbert | Kenneth Essex | Charles Tunnell | yyyy | time | label ( [5]) | ||
6 | Pascal | Jacques Dumont | Maurice Crut | Léon Pascal | Robert Salles | ? | ? | label ( [6]) | ||
7 | Beau | Anita Dusevic | Stephan Bryant | Sue Jane Bryant | Peter Parthun | yyyy | time | Arktos Recordings ( ARK98028) | ||
8 | Kryptos | Hanna Drzewiecka | Elisabeth Wybou | Vincent Hepp | Antony Gröger | yyyy | 29:06 | RMJ Recording ( [no barcode]) | ||
9 | Wilanow | v1 | v2 | viola | cello | yyyy | time | Accord ( 202492) | ||
10 | Kocian | Pavel Hůla | Miloš Černý | Zbyněk Paďourek | Václav Bernášek | ? | 29:26 | Praga ( DSD250257) | ||
11 | Finlandia | Olavi Pälli | Jussi Pesonen | Esa Kamu | Heikki Rautasalo | 1970 | ? | HMV [EMI Classics] ( 5 E063-34235) | ||
12 | Voces Intimae | Ari Angervo | Jorma Rahkonen | Mauri Pietikäinen | Veikko Höylä | 1974 | 31:04 | BIS ( BIS-CD-10) | ||
13 | Fitzwilliam | Christopher Rowland | Janathan Sparey | Alan George | Ioan Davies | 1978 | 33:07 | Decca ( 442 9486) | ||
14 | Sibelius Academy | Seppo Tukiainen | Erkki Kantola | Veikko Kosonen | Arto Noras | 1980 | 28:14 | Finlandia ( 4509-95851-2) | ||
15 | Guarneri | Arnold Steinhardt | John Dalley | Michael Tree | David Soyer | 1989 | 28:47 | Philips Classics ( 426 286-2) | ||
16 | Gabrieli | John Georgiadis | Brendan O'Reilly | Ian Jewel | Keith Harvey | 1989 | 34:13 | Chandos ( CHAN 8742) | ||
17 | Fresk | Lars Fresk | Hans-Erik Westberg | Lars-Gunnar Bodin | Per-Göran Skytt | 1989 | 30:10 | Bluebell ( ABCD 040) | ||
18 | Sophisticated Ladies | Ulrika Jansson | Annette Mannheimer | Mona Bengtsson | Åsa Forsberg | 1989 | 29:41 | BIS ( BIS-CD-463) | ||
19 | Juilliard | Robert Mann | Joel Smirnoff | Samuel Rhodes | Joel Krosnick | 1990 | 30:45 | Sony Classical ( SK 48193) | ||
20 | Jean Sibelius | Yoshiko Arai | Jukka Pohjola | Teemu Kupiainen | Seppo Kimanen | 1991 | 30:11 | Ondine ( ODE 773-2) | ||
21 | New Helsinki | Jan Söderblom | Petri Aarnio | Ilari Angervo | Mark Ylönen | 1997 | 33:22 | Finlandia ( 0927-40872-2) | ||
22 | Melos | Wilhelm Melcher | Ida Bieler | Hermann Voss | Peter Buck | 1998 | 30:38 | Harmonia Mundi ( HMA 901671) | ||
23 | Utrecht | Eeva Koskinen | Katherine Routley | Sven Arne Tepl | Sebastian Koloski | 2001 | 29:28 | Cobra ( COBRA0003) | ||
24 | Oslo | Geir Inge Lotsberg | Per Kristian Skalstad | Are Sandbakken | Øystein Sonstad | 2002 | 32:25 | cpo ( 999 977-2) | ||
25 | Tempera | Laura Vikman | Silva Koskela | Tiila Kangas | Ulla Lampela | 2004 | 29:48 | BIS ( BIS-CD-1466) | ||
26 | Emerson | Eugene Drucker | Philip Seltzer | Lawrence Dutton | David Finckel | 2004 | 27:56 | Deutsche Grammophon ( B0006340-02) | ||
27 | Daedalus | Min-Young Kim | Kyu-Young Kim | Jessica Thompson | Raman Ramakrishnan | 2006 | 28:56 | Bridge ( BRIDGE 9202) | ||
28 | Coull | Roger Coull | Philip Gallaway | Gustav Clarkson | Nicholas Roberts | 2008 | 31:49 | Somm ( SOMMCD 096) | ||
29 | Henschel | Christoph Henschel | Markus Henschel | Monika Henschel | Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj | 2008 | 30:51 | Neos ( NEOS11006) | ||
30 | Tetzlaff | Christian Tetzlaff | Elisabeth Kufferath | Hanna Weinmeister | Tanja Tetzlaff | 2009 | 29:55 | Avi-Music ( 8553202) | ||
31 | Vertavo | Øyvor Volle | Berit Cardas | Henninge Landaas | Bjørg Lewis | 2010 | 30:52 | Lawo Classics ( LWC 1201) | ||
32 | Dante | Krysia Osostowicz | Giles Francis | Judith Busbridge | Bernard Gregor-Smith | 2010 | 31:01 | Hyperion ( CDA67845) | ||
33 | Kamus | Terhi Paldanius | Jukka Untamala | Jussi Tuhkanen | Petja Kainulainen | 2014 | 30:07 | Alba ( ABCD383) | ||
34 | Skyros | Sarah Pizzichemi | James Moat | Justin Kurys | William Braun | 2014 | 32:14 | Navona Records ( NV6005) | ||
35 | Engegård | Arvid Engegård | Alex Robson | Juliet Jopling | Jan Clemens Carlsen | 2015 | 28:37 | BIS ( BIS-2101 SACD) | ||
36 | Flinders | Helen Ayres | Shane Chen | Helen Ireland | Zoe Knighton | 2015 | 29:39 | Wyselaskie Auditorium, Parkville | ABC Classics | |
37 | Ehnes | James Ehnes | Amy Schwartz Moretti | Richard Yongjae O'Neill | Robert deMaine | 2015 | 31:38 | Potton Hall, Westleton | Onyx Classics | |
38 | Leipzig | Conrad Munk | Tilman Büning | Ivo Bauer | Matthias Moosdorf | ? | 31:21 | ? | MDG |
String Quartet | |
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Voces intimae | |
String quartet by Jean Sibelius | |
Key | D minor |
Catalogue | Op. 56 |
Composed | 1908 | –1909
Publisher | Lienau (1909) |
Duration | Approx. 30 minutes |
Movements | 5 |
Premiere | |
Date | 25 April 1910 |
Location | Helsinki, Finland |
Performers |
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The String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae ( lit. 'Intimate voices' or 'Internal voices'), [1] [2] Op. 56, is a five- movement composition for string quartet written from 1908 to 1909 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which the composer characterized as "something wonderful ... the kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death", [3] premiered at the Music Institute in Helsinki on 25 April 1910, with Viktor Nováček and Sulo Hurstinen on violin, Carl Lindelöf on viola, and Bror Persfelt on cello. The critics praised Sibelius, who was not in attendance, for... . [4]
Stylistically, Voces intimae quartet forms a "link" between the classicism of the Third Symphony (1907) and the expressionism of the Fourth (1911), the two major works between which it was composed. [2] Like the latter, it is "dark [and] uncompromising, often introspective", similar to the "anguished" incidental music Ödlan (The Lizard), which Sibelius began writing shortly after completing the quartet. [5] (In 1908, Sibelius had just survived a surgery for throat tumors, an experience that left him not only mindful of his own mortality, but also begrudgingly abstemious of alcohol and tobacco.) [6]
Although during his student years Sibelius composed many pieces for string quartet, Voces intimae—chronologically, the last of his four quartets, having been preceded by those in
E-flat major (JS 184, 1885),
A minor (JS 183, 1889), and
B-flat major (Op. 4, 1890)—is the only
piece for this ensemble type that dates to his mature period. [2]
The D minor quartet is in five movements, with the first proceeding immediately into the second. [2] The third movement—the work's slow, emotional anchor—is the longest in duration. The movements are as follows:
Robert Lienau published the quartet in 1909.
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The sortable table below lists most, although perhaps not all, commercially available recordings of the String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae:
No. | Ensemble | Violin | Violin | Viola | Cello | Rec. [a] | Time [b] | Venue | Label | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Griller | Sidney Griller | Jack O’Brien | Philip Burton | Colin Hampton | 1950 | time | label ( [1]) | ||
2 | Budapest | Josef Roisman | Alexander Schneider | Boris Kroyt | Mischa Schneider | 1955 | time | label ( [2]) | ||
3 | Claremont | Marc Gottlieb | Vladimir Weisman | Scott Nickrenz | Irving Klein | yyyy | time | label ( [3]) | ||
4 | Copenhagen | Tutter Givskov | Mogens Lydolph | Mogens Bruun | Asger Lund-Christiansen | 1960s | 32:27 | label ( [4]) | ||
5 | Lansdowne | Jack Rothstein | Antony Gilbert | Kenneth Essex | Charles Tunnell | yyyy | time | label ( [5]) | ||
6 | Pascal | Jacques Dumont | Maurice Crut | Léon Pascal | Robert Salles | ? | ? | label ( [6]) | ||
7 | Beau | Anita Dusevic | Stephan Bryant | Sue Jane Bryant | Peter Parthun | yyyy | time | Arktos Recordings ( ARK98028) | ||
8 | Kryptos | Hanna Drzewiecka | Elisabeth Wybou | Vincent Hepp | Antony Gröger | yyyy | 29:06 | RMJ Recording ( [no barcode]) | ||
9 | Wilanow | v1 | v2 | viola | cello | yyyy | time | Accord ( 202492) | ||
10 | Kocian | Pavel Hůla | Miloš Černý | Zbyněk Paďourek | Václav Bernášek | ? | 29:26 | Praga ( DSD250257) | ||
11 | Finlandia | Olavi Pälli | Jussi Pesonen | Esa Kamu | Heikki Rautasalo | 1970 | ? | HMV [EMI Classics] ( 5 E063-34235) | ||
12 | Voces Intimae | Ari Angervo | Jorma Rahkonen | Mauri Pietikäinen | Veikko Höylä | 1974 | 31:04 | BIS ( BIS-CD-10) | ||
13 | Fitzwilliam | Christopher Rowland | Janathan Sparey | Alan George | Ioan Davies | 1978 | 33:07 | Decca ( 442 9486) | ||
14 | Sibelius Academy | Seppo Tukiainen | Erkki Kantola | Veikko Kosonen | Arto Noras | 1980 | 28:14 | Finlandia ( 4509-95851-2) | ||
15 | Guarneri | Arnold Steinhardt | John Dalley | Michael Tree | David Soyer | 1989 | 28:47 | Philips Classics ( 426 286-2) | ||
16 | Gabrieli | John Georgiadis | Brendan O'Reilly | Ian Jewel | Keith Harvey | 1989 | 34:13 | Chandos ( CHAN 8742) | ||
17 | Fresk | Lars Fresk | Hans-Erik Westberg | Lars-Gunnar Bodin | Per-Göran Skytt | 1989 | 30:10 | Bluebell ( ABCD 040) | ||
18 | Sophisticated Ladies | Ulrika Jansson | Annette Mannheimer | Mona Bengtsson | Åsa Forsberg | 1989 | 29:41 | BIS ( BIS-CD-463) | ||
19 | Juilliard | Robert Mann | Joel Smirnoff | Samuel Rhodes | Joel Krosnick | 1990 | 30:45 | Sony Classical ( SK 48193) | ||
20 | Jean Sibelius | Yoshiko Arai | Jukka Pohjola | Teemu Kupiainen | Seppo Kimanen | 1991 | 30:11 | Ondine ( ODE 773-2) | ||
21 | New Helsinki | Jan Söderblom | Petri Aarnio | Ilari Angervo | Mark Ylönen | 1997 | 33:22 | Finlandia ( 0927-40872-2) | ||
22 | Melos | Wilhelm Melcher | Ida Bieler | Hermann Voss | Peter Buck | 1998 | 30:38 | Harmonia Mundi ( HMA 901671) | ||
23 | Utrecht | Eeva Koskinen | Katherine Routley | Sven Arne Tepl | Sebastian Koloski | 2001 | 29:28 | Cobra ( COBRA0003) | ||
24 | Oslo | Geir Inge Lotsberg | Per Kristian Skalstad | Are Sandbakken | Øystein Sonstad | 2002 | 32:25 | cpo ( 999 977-2) | ||
25 | Tempera | Laura Vikman | Silva Koskela | Tiila Kangas | Ulla Lampela | 2004 | 29:48 | BIS ( BIS-CD-1466) | ||
26 | Emerson | Eugene Drucker | Philip Seltzer | Lawrence Dutton | David Finckel | 2004 | 27:56 | Deutsche Grammophon ( B0006340-02) | ||
27 | Daedalus | Min-Young Kim | Kyu-Young Kim | Jessica Thompson | Raman Ramakrishnan | 2006 | 28:56 | Bridge ( BRIDGE 9202) | ||
28 | Coull | Roger Coull | Philip Gallaway | Gustav Clarkson | Nicholas Roberts | 2008 | 31:49 | Somm ( SOMMCD 096) | ||
29 | Henschel | Christoph Henschel | Markus Henschel | Monika Henschel | Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj | 2008 | 30:51 | Neos ( NEOS11006) | ||
30 | Tetzlaff | Christian Tetzlaff | Elisabeth Kufferath | Hanna Weinmeister | Tanja Tetzlaff | 2009 | 29:55 | Avi-Music ( 8553202) | ||
31 | Vertavo | Øyvor Volle | Berit Cardas | Henninge Landaas | Bjørg Lewis | 2010 | 30:52 | Lawo Classics ( LWC 1201) | ||
32 | Dante | Krysia Osostowicz | Giles Francis | Judith Busbridge | Bernard Gregor-Smith | 2010 | 31:01 | Hyperion ( CDA67845) | ||
33 | Kamus | Terhi Paldanius | Jukka Untamala | Jussi Tuhkanen | Petja Kainulainen | 2014 | 30:07 | Alba ( ABCD383) | ||
34 | Skyros | Sarah Pizzichemi | James Moat | Justin Kurys | William Braun | 2014 | 32:14 | Navona Records ( NV6005) | ||
35 | Engegård | Arvid Engegård | Alex Robson | Juliet Jopling | Jan Clemens Carlsen | 2015 | 28:37 | BIS ( BIS-2101 SACD) | ||
36 | Flinders | Helen Ayres | Shane Chen | Helen Ireland | Zoe Knighton | 2015 | 29:39 | Wyselaskie Auditorium, Parkville | ABC Classics | |
37 | Ehnes | James Ehnes | Amy Schwartz Moretti | Richard Yongjae O'Neill | Robert deMaine | 2015 | 31:38 | Potton Hall, Westleton | Onyx Classics | |
38 | Leipzig | Conrad Munk | Tilman Büning | Ivo Bauer | Matthias Moosdorf | ? | 31:21 | ? | MDG |