Intimate Voices
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Composer: Edvard GriegComposer: Carl Nielsen
Composer: Jean Sibelius
Performer: Emerson String Quartet
Performer: Philip Setzer
Performer: Eugene Drucker
Performer: Lawrence Dutton
Performer: David Finckel
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- 1. Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato
- 2. Romanze. Andantino
- 2. Intermezzo. Allegro molto marcatao - Pi? vivo e scherzando
- 4. Finale. Lento - Presto al Saltarello
- 1. Andante - Allegro molto moderato
- 2. Vivace
- 3. Adagio di molto
- 4. Allegretto (ma pesante)
- 5. Allegro
Music reviews of Intimate Voices
Music Review: A Magnificent Program
Rating: 5 Stars
Edvard Grieg completed just one string quartet in 1878 leaving one other unfinished and one lost at his death. He is quoted to have aimed at "breadth, flight of imagination and, above all sonority," and the quartet is proof of his success. The quartet has an exuberant start and reminded me more of Dvorak than Grieg. The second movement is a Romanze that begins with a bucolic melody and develops into a dance-like tempo. The third movement is an Intermezzo and picks up the light and playful feel from the prior movement. The Finale is exuberant with agitated passages. The quartet is a tuneful work with some outstanding writing for the instruments.
The Andante lamentoso by Carl Nielsen was originally written for string quartet and double bass or string orchestra. However, as the double bass is used to reinforce the cello the work can be played effectively by a quartet alone, as it is here. The work is titles "At the Bier of a Young Artist" and it was written for the early death of a young painter named Oluf Hartmann; it was also played at Nielsen's own funeral. It is a very compact poignant work that is very intense.
The quartet of Jean Sibelius carries the name "Voces intimae" which serves as the album title. The quartet was written during the winter of 1908/09 - just before the Fourth Symphony. During this period Sibelius was undergoing surgeries for throat cancer which is possibly reflected in the Adagio. The quartet is in five movements, beginning with a movement that, like so much of his music, seems to express the grandeur of a northern landscape. The Vivace that follows is fleet and graceful and is followed by a somber Adagio that is the heart of the quartet. The Adagio begins quietly and slowly builds to become more agitated before retuning to a more serene, but reflective, calm. The Adagio is followed by an Allegretto characterized by a dance-like melody. The Finale begins with a graceful melody and slowly becomes faster ending at a break-neck tempo.
This is a magnificent disc beautifully recorded and played.
Description of Intimate Voices
Both Grieg and Sibelius composed only one string quartet; along with these, this recording features a brief work by Carl Nielsen entitled "At the Bier of a Young Artist." The Nielsen was originally a more elaborately scored work, but the Emersons have successfully reduced it. It's a fine study in dark, sentimental Romanticism. The Grieg is an easier-going piece than one might imagine given its minor key tonality, with plenty of melodies, a lovely dance in the second movement and a livelier one in the finale. The Emersons play it crisply, perhaps purposely avoiding its gloom. The D minor Sibelius Quartet is a joyless piece, anxious when it isn't disturbingly dark, and it is played beautifully, with proper gravity, by the Quartet. A handsome disc. --Robert LevineGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Quartets
- Quintets
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( G ) > Grieg, Edvard
- ( N ) > Nielsen, Carl
- ( S ) > Sibelius, Jean
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( E ) > Emerson String Quartet
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Nielsen, Carl - Works by Nielsen
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