Jean Sibelius Quartet - Sibelius: String Quartets (1991)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:34 | 299B
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 773-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:34 | 299B
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 773-2
It wasn't so long ago that the only Sibelius quartet on disc was Voces intimae. Now the catalogue boasts no fewer than three accounts of the A minor, and the Voces intimae itself is available in five different versions. It is worth, perhaps, reminding you that before the Kullervo Symphony, Sibelius had hardly composed anything other than chamber music. After his breakthrough as an orchestral composer he continued to write music for domestic use, but into none of it did he pour ideas of any real significance or inspiration, with the sole exception of Voces intimae.