Called Voces Intimae, this disc is the third volume of the complete works for string quartet by Jean Sibelius performed by Finland's all-woman Tempera Quartet. It contains two large-scale scores from 1890; the single-movement, 12-minute Adagio in D minor; and the four-movement, half-hour Quartet in B flat major, plus the five-movement, half-hour Voces Intimae' Quartet in D minor from 1909 as well as the world-premiere recording of the preliminary ending of that work's last movement, and, as an encore, the composer's final ...
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Called Voces Intimae, this disc is the third volume of the complete works for string quartet by Jean Sibelius performed by Finland's all-woman Tempera Quartet. It contains two large-scale scores from 1890; the single-movement, 12-minute Adagio in D minor; and the four-movement, half-hour Quartet in B flat major, plus the five-movement, half-hour Voces Intimae' Quartet in D minor from 1909 as well as the world-premiere recording of the preliminary ending of that work's last movement, and, as an encore, the composer's final work for quartet, the Andante Festivo from 1922, a single-movement, five-minute work of heartrending beauty. As in the first volumes, the Tempera Quartet's performances are consistently superlative. With an edgy tone, a tight ensemble, a strong technique, and a supple but propulsive sense of rhythm, the Tempera grants the early works the passion-driven performances they need to convince, the mature work the savage intensity it needs to succeed, and the late work the controlled ecstasy...
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