Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in D-Minor op. 56, Voces Intimae. Nordic String Quartet (HD)

[@giancitton2604]

I. Andante - Allegro molto moderato 00:08 II. Vivace (Scherzo) 06:37 III. Adagio di molto 09:48 IV. Allegretto, ma pesante 20:25 V. Allegro 26:40 Quarto e ultimo quartetto (1909) al quale fa seguito solo il famoso "Andante festivo" (1922) più noto nella trascrizione per orchestra d'archi e timpani (1938).

[@scottfortney9657]

The magic of KZbin - looking for something else and got pointed to this performance and I was transfixed for 30 minutes!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

素晴らしい音楽ですね～ 浮世のしがらみと煩わしさで悩みが重なっていく日々の精神的苦しみを消していってくれます 心地よい音楽は心に覆い被さっている重みをかるくしてくれます。

[@kevinteichroeb6997]

Call me old-fashioned, but I love it when live performers have the ladies wear gowns of individual color, and the men wear suits or tuxedos. Everything about it strikes a chord in my soul. Great performance as well! Thank you all.

[@borneolspleen]

今年動画として拝見した演奏の中で最も素晴らしいです

[@thijsthomasmarievorstman7302]

Rautavaara got me into Nordic music. Now that I listen to Sibelius, I finally understand how he came about. Beautiful interpretation

[@Scriabin_fan]

I love Rautavaara.

[@thejewk386]

Beautiful performance of an excellent piece. Many thanks

[@fgte7730]

1st Mvt 0:00 2nd Mvt 6:36 3rd Mvt 9:49 4th Mvt 20:25 Like plz

[@nordicstringquartet8405]

Thank you!

[@SomeCellist]

Also a 5th movement... 26:42

[@davidjared3402]

Well done! FYI, this piece was mentioned in Patrick Kavanaugh's "A Taste for the Classics." Very pleased to have found it online, and thanks for sharing!

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

This has to be the best interpretation I've heard of this String Quartet. Played with great sensitivity and with so much attention to detail throughout. And yes, Heidrun, you're still looking gorgeous. x

[@nordicstringquartet8405]

David A thank you David!

[@federicozimerman8167]

The first violin player looks like a direct descendant of a viking king😃

[@Camerata-w1o]

Primo violino ❤️

[@carlose.johansson739]

Wonderful 🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶

[@Scriabin_fan]

I didn’t even know Sibelius wrote a string quartet 😳

[@carlconnor5173]

I found it by chance on a Musical Heritage Society recording decades ago. Unfortunately that’s about it from Sibelius’s chamber music that’s noteworthy. And I’ve listened to all of it. I wish he’d done more like this.But then, I wish he finished and published his 8th Symphony. Ah well, what he left us is plenty to enjoy!

[@Scriabin_fan]

@@carlconnor5173 yeah I would’ve loved to hear his 8th symphony. I found a recording on KZbin of a few fragments of his 8th symphony, I don’t know if it’s actually authentic though.

[@aguador67]

@@Scriabin_fan After a musical silence of 30 years (and probably also due to the after-effects of a few alcoholic excesses in his youth), it seems logical that Sibelius left only sketches of a new symphony. It reminds me of the case of Tchaikovsky's "7th symphony", reconstructed by Semyon Bogatyrev from some excerpts of other works by the composer.

[@peterwimmer1259]

Four at least. But only 3 and 4 are interesting.

[@ronalddejong.organistklave3507]

Fantastic What a good ensemble Bravo

[@Fortunfortvej]

Dybt bevægende nordisk musik! Blændende og medrivende nordisk spil! Tak for det på en dejlig nordisk sommeraften!

[@emrahkorkmaz87]

Excellent!

[@IVIentos]

Fantastic, fantastic performance.

[@jaspergood2091]

Nice

[@scruffysean3640]

Just fabulous! Tack så mycket!

[@skyyoonphoto]

Bravo! i wish play like you! I will hearing this video everyday!

[@nordicstringquartet8405]

윤성권 Thank you so much! :)

[@federicozimerman8167]

Fabulous performance. The first movement echoes in my mind the last quartet of Beethoven somehow. On a side note, classical music performers these days look fit, very few or none are out of shape. Cheers from NYC😃

[@ГерманУстинов-з1х]

Life!!!!!!

[@シェヘラザード-q2f]

シベリウスの弦楽四重奏はマイナーではあるが数多くある弦楽四重奏の中でもトップクラスにカッコいい。

[@davidburton3016]

Nothing like a live performance of anything but essentially of something like this. Stenhammar is your logical next stop, to make more great Nordic music better understood to more people. You seem to like to let the music speak for itself rather than over emphasizing it. The result is better, more about the music you're playing than your own quite obvious talents. You're all very good players. Best

[@classicalspoilers9497]

30:04

[@shani1620]

very good performance!! whats with the dress?? :(

[@carlconnor5173]

A sinfully neglected piece of underrecorded and publicly underperformed part of the chamber music repertoire. There isn’t much of Sibelius’s chamber music that’s noteworthy. But this is quintessential Sibelius! I wish he’d composed more quartets, and even quintets, like with winds. He was great with winds! But then, he had loftier ambitions on an orchestral scale. (We didn’t need the tuning up in the middle of it.) I have a better recording of it, but you can’t fault the effort.

[@wiebestuive824]

But he did write more string quartets: As a student, Sibelius composed several works for string quartet. In 1885 he finished a string quartet in E-flat major, followed in 1889, after quite a few individual movements for this combination, by a string quartet in A minor. The first string quartet to receive an opus number was in 1890 the quartet Op. 4 in B-flat major.[1] Afterwards he wrote no string quartets until Voces intimae in 1909. Composed between his Third and Fourth Symphony,[2] it remained "the only major work for string quartet of Sibelius's mature period".[1]

[@albertsystem1]

Put a tie on.

[@christopherhornung3105]

Why? The 1st violinist and cellist would look silly in ties, would they not?

[@PaulJohnBeatles]

Some parts are ok, 99 procent is absolutely boring.

[@worldmusictheory]

Because you could compose anything that is even remotely comparable to this right?

[@PaulJohnBeatles]

@@worldmusictheory no, it is boring because it is boring. as allmost all of classical music.

[@worldmusictheory]

@@PaulJohnBeatles based on your username, I assume you like the Beatles. A band that rehash the same chords and forms over and over and over again. Appears to me that you simply enjoy these cliché structures and have not acquired the ability to enjoy the complexity of classical music. This isn’t inherently bad and most people are like this as we are constantly bombarded with simple music day in and day out. Classical music is such a varied genre and spans hundreds of years, maybe you just need to find the style that suits you.

[@PaulJohnBeatles]

@@worldmusictheory Classical music is boring and thats why it is run by tax money. Beatles use very complex chord structures and never repeated themselves. There is no two similar songs by them. But the beatles has nothing to do with te question of bored by classical music. Anyone can write so called complex music. who cares?

[@worldmusictheory]

@@PaulJohnBeatles Wow, I never realised someone could be close minded and have an apparent visceral hatred for music they haven’t even taken the time to know or appreciate. Also one final remark, The Beatles suck.