The unusual item on this all-Sibelius disc by Britain's Coull Quartet is the Piano Quintet in G minor, JS 159, composed in 1890 when Sibelius was 25. Sibelius developed slowly as a composer, and he was still a student at this point. He later rejected the work as "absolute rubbish," and many listeners will come in somewhere between that evaluation and annotator Christopher Morley's description of the piece as "astonishing." In reality it's something like a preparatory chamber version of the big early Sibelius orchestral ...
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The unusual item on this all-Sibelius disc by Britain's Coull Quartet is the Piano Quintet in G minor, JS 159, composed in 1890 when Sibelius was 25. Sibelius developed slowly as a composer, and he was still a student at this point. He later rejected the work as "absolute rubbish," and many listeners will come in somewhere between that evaluation and annotator Christopher Morley's description of the piece as "astonishing." In reality it's something like a preparatory chamber version of the big early Sibelius orchestral works like En Saga, Op. 9, anticipating both the composer's popular Scandinavian kitsch mode in the Intermezzo: Moderato second movement and the gigantic scope of some of his early mature works. The quintet is quite difficult to perform, and after hearing the outer movements it will not come as a surprise to learn that none other than Ferruccio Busoni was the pianist at the premiere, but pianist Martin Roscoe does not have to sweat. They stretch both piano and strings to the limit in...
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