'The members of the Dante Quartet.offer an intense, dynamic and fully committed version of Smetana's 'From My Life', seizing the air immediately, giving a dramatic, even orchestral account of it. This is one of the essential genres / forms / ensembles of chamber music and arguably a critical 'core' of 'classical' music. The quartet appears in the same sketchbook as two other brief pieces for string quartet: first, the. string quartet, Streichquartett G, quatuor à cordes F, quartetto darchi I, quartetto di cordi I, cuarteto de cuerda S an ensemble as well as music written for that ensemble comprising 2 violins, viola and cello. It is the first of Sibelius's four string quartets. 'The Dante Quartet has developed into a force to be reckoned with.Each player contributes bag-loads of personality, drawing out the chill winds of Sibelius and the earthy rhythms of Smetana's Czech polkas, against which the onset of the composer's hearing-loss - depicted by a high-pitched violin whine - is all too heart-rending' The String Quartet in E-flat major, JS 184, is a four- movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello 3 written in June 1885 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Each performance is eloquent, intense and emotionally gripping.the urgency of all the fast movements is compelling' Four compositions by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius : String Quartet in E-flat major, the composer's first quartet (JS 184, 1885) String Quartet in A minor, the composer's second quartet (JS 183, 1889) String Quartet in B-flat major, the composer's third quartet (Op. Four compositions by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in E-flat major, the composers first quartet (JS 184, 1885)String Quartet in A minor, the composers second quartet (JS 183, 1889)String Quartet in B-flat major, the composers third quartet (Op. 'The Dante Quartet can scarcely be faulted in terms of passionate attack.

'The Dante Quartet, which has already produced first-rate Hyperion discs of French works by Franck, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel, expands its recording horizons here and at the same time shows how acutely it can summon up and crystalise the stylistic personalities of two markedly different composers.ĭifferent they might be, but the three quartets on this programme share a quality of intimacy and soul-searching that the Dante captures poignantly and powerfully, not overstating the issue but finding a mode of expression that encapsulates shifts of mood from extremes' She studied in Sibelius Academy, Musikhochschule Hannover and Musik-Akademie Basel with Lara Lev and Rainer Schmidt among others.

Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor (Voces Intimae) The Castalian String Quartet’s 2022 release Between Two Words (Delphian Records), presenting music by Orlando di Lasso, Thomas Adès.

String quartet in sibelius