“It turned out as something wonderful. The kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death.” Sibelius wrote his string quartet ‘Intimate Voices’ during a period of crisis, both ...

Like most of Sibelius’s chamber music, the Piano Quintet comes from his apprentice years, and it’s only in the past decade that it has earned a proper hearing. It has an expansive five-movement ...

Composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) had one of the strangest careers in history. Here is a man who produced masterpieces and kitsch, cheek by jowl, over the course of four decades and then stopped ...

At first it seemed to me that the Tetzlaff Quartet had gone for an especially narrow vibrato and white tone-quality to suit Sibelius’s Nordic musical landscape. Theirs is certainly a resolutely ...

The Music: Sibelius and Smetana hailed from different eras and different countries, yet they are a formidable pairing and both were preoccupied with highly individual sounds that are infused with ...

The Spokane String Quartet will perform pieces by Shostakovich, Sibelius and Haydn in a concert Sunday at the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 6, based on Russian ...

String Quartet No. 1, 'From my life' Dante Quartet Bedřich Smetana, Composer Dante Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Bedřich Smetana, Composer Dante Quartet Dante Quartet The Dante Quartet can scarcely be ...