Utwory na płycie:

• Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 56, 'Voces Intimae' - 1. Andante: Allegro Molto Moderato
• Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 56, 'Voces Intimae' - 2. Vivace
• Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 56, 'Voces Intimae' - 3. Adagio Di Molto
• Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 56, 'Voces Intimae' - 4. Allegretto, Ma Pesante
• Sibelius: String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 56, 'Voces Intimae' - 5. Allegro
• Smetana: String Quartet #1 In E Minor, 'From My Life' - 1. Allegro Vivo Appassionato
• Smetana: String Quartet #1 In E Minor, 'From My Life' - 2. Allegro Moderato Alla Polka
• Smetana: String Quartet #1 In E Minor, 'From My Life' - 3. Largo Sostenuto
• Smetana: String Quartet #1 In E Minor, 'From My Life' - 4. Vivace
• Smetana: String Quartet #2 In D Minor - 1. Allegro
• Smetana: String Quartet #2 In D Minor - 2. Allegro Moderato
• Smetana: String Quartet #2 In D Minor - 3. Allegro Non Più Moderato, Ma Agitato & Con Fuoco
• Smetana: String Quartet #2 In D Minor - 4. Presto

Sibelus:
String Quartet in D minor ‘Voces intimae’ Op 56

Smetana:
String Quartet No 1 in E minor ‘From my life’
String Quartet No 2 in D minor

BBC Music Magazine award winners the Dante Quartet return for their third Hyperion recording with the string quartets of Smetana and Sibelius. This group, renowned for their inventive interpretations and sensitive articulation, capture perfectly the expressive intensity of these masterpieces.

Smetana’s Quartet No 1 in E minor is entitled ‘From my life’ and musically chronicles his youth, loves and vocation, culminating with the onset of his deafness. The turbulent second Quartet in D minor serves as a sequel to the first, continuing Smetana’s life story. The musical language is adventurous and unusual, speaking movingly of the composer’s loss of his hearing.

Interestingly, Smetana and Sibelius, both renowned for their skilful dealing with symphonic forces poignantly turned to the intimacy of the string quartet form at specific points of crisis in their lives. Voces intimae is an intense precursor to Sibelius’s tormented fourth Symphony, written at a time of profound depression.

These works give a unique insight into the private musical lives of their composers and are performed by the Dante Quartet with conviction and flawless technique.