The disc is well recorded but a little close, especially given the beautiful acoustic potential of the recording venue, the Schauman Hall in Jakobstad. Recording Details: Reference Recording: Sibelius: Gabrielli Quartet/Chandos. It’s a delicate, decorative piece, even if it’s ultimately less cohesive than its two companions here. 56 voces Intimae by Jean Sibelius, Paperback Indigo Chapters. The Kamus Quartet’s sense of ensemble and purpose is never in doubt, even when tested in Jukka Tiensuu’s Rack – a work in which a wind seems to blow through a single, 16-stringed instrument (the composer deliberately avoids the description ‘string quartet’). There’s a difference between tension and tenacity, and this movement would benefit from being calmed down, slowed down and injected with more fresh air and space. ![]() But I’m not sure the sound works in Sibelius’s Adagio di molto. The group’s tense, jumpy style is also well suited to the Allegretto and final Allegro movements of Sibelius’s ‘Intimate Voices’: the players have the inside track on all those familiar Sibelian shapes and patterns in the former movement. The Kamus Quartet is just as ferocious and uncompromising. Kilpi’s Expressionist literary style charges through Kaipainen’s 13-minute score – severe, sturdy, Schoenbergian – until it reaches a place of gentle lyricism. The work begins with an introductory bit of dialog between first violin and cello, leading into a movement punctuating murmurous figuration with firm chords. Much of the intensity in the late Jouni Kaipainen’s Seventh String Quartet is apparently rooted in the ‘steamy’ love affair of King David and Bathsheba in Volter Kilpi’s novel about the couple. Composer: Jean Sibelius Instrumentation: String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello) Work: String Quartet in D Minor (Voces intimae), Op. Description: Intimacy and Expressionism in a trio of Finnish string quartet works
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