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Wydawnictwo: Onyx
Nr katalogowy: ONYX 4163
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: listopad 2016
EAN: 880040416326
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Epoka muzyczna: romantyzm
Obszar (język): fiński, niemiecki
Rodzaj: kwartet

Schubert / Sibelius: Schubert & Sibelius Ehnes Quartet

Onyx - ONYX 4163
Wykonawcy
James Ehnes, violin
Amy Schwarz Moretti, violin
Richard Yongjae O’Neill, viola
Robert de Maine, cello
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Gramophone Awards Diapason 5 Gramophone Editor's Choice ArkivMusic Best of Classic FM Editor's Choice
 
Schubert:
String Quartet No.14 - 'Death and the Maiden'

Sibelius:
String Quartet - 'Intimate Vioces'
Death preyed heavily on the minds of both Schubert and Sibelius when they composed the two string quartets on this new CD from the Ehnes Quartet. Sibelius had undergone several operations to remove a tumour in his throat. The bleak and highly personal 4th Symphony is the masterwork from this period, but the string quartet ‘Intimate Voices’ of 1908 should not be underestimated. Taut and highly concentrated, it has an almost Haydnesque construction, and the quartet’s first movement’s sheer perfection of form approaches that of the 3rd Symphony’s opening movement.

‘I am the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world…whose health will never be right again’ wrote Schubert to a friend in 1824. With his emotions veering from happy memories of earlier years to shuddering terror at the prospect of death, he composed two string quartets and the Octet over a two- month period. The D minor quartet makes ingenious use of his earlier song ‘Death and the Maiden’ from 1817 in the slow movement’s variations. ‘Give me your hand, you fair and gentle creature; I am a friend and do not come to punish’ sings Death soothingly.

The music captures Schubert’s fearful state of mind in a remarkable ‘freeze frame’ effect.

Recording information: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk UK (10/27/2015-10/29/2015)

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