Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in D-Minor op. 56, Voces Intimae. Nordic String Quartet (HD) 

Thank you!

Also a 5th movement... 26:42

I found it by chance on a Musical Heritage Society recording decades ago. Unfortunately that’s about it from Sibelius’s chamber music that’s noteworthy. And I’ve listened to all of it. I wish he’d done more like this.But then, I wish he finished and published his 8th Symphony. Ah well, what he left us is plenty to enjoy!

@@carlconnor5173 yeah I would’ve loved to hear his 8th symphony. I found a recording on RU-vid of a few fragments of his 8th symphony, I don’t know if it’s actually authentic though.

@@Scriabinfan593 After a musical silence of 30 years (and probably also due to the after-effects of a few alcoholic excesses in his youth), it seems logical that Sibelius left only sketches of a new symphony. It reminds me of the case of Tchaikovsky's "7th symphony", reconstructed by Semyon Bogatyrev from some excerpts of other works by the composer.

Four at least. But only 3 and 4 are interesting.

I love Rautavaara.

David A thank you David!

The first violin player looks like a direct descendant of a viking king😃

윤성권 Thank you so much! :)

But he did write more string quartets: As a student, Sibelius composed several works for string quartet. In 1885 he finished a string quartet in E-flat major, followed in 1889, after quite a few individual movements for this combination, by a string quartet in A minor. The first string quartet to receive an opus number was in 1890 the quartet Op. 4 in B-flat major.[1] Afterwards he wrote no string quartets until Voces intimae in 1909. Composed between his Third and Fourth Symphony,[2] it remained "the only major work for string quartet of Sibelius's mature period".[1]

Why? The 1st violinist and cellist would look silly in ties, would they not?

Because you could compose anything that is even remotely comparable to this right?

@@worldmusictheory no, it is boring because it is boring. as allmost all of classical music.

@@PaulJohnBeatles based on your username, I assume you like the Beatles. A band that rehash the same chords and forms over and over and over again. Appears to me that you simply enjoy these cliché structures and have not acquired the ability to enjoy the complexity of classical music. This isn’t inherently bad and most people are like this as we are constantly bombarded with simple music day in and day out. Classical music is such a varied genre and spans hundreds of years, maybe you just need to find the style that suits you.

@@worldmusictheory Classical music is boring and thats why it is run by tax money. Beatles use very complex chord structures and never repeated themselves. There is no two similar songs by them. But the beatles has nothing to do with te question of bored by classical music. Anyone can write so called complex music. who cares?

@@PaulJohnBeatles Wow, I never realised someone could be close minded and have an apparent visceral hatred for music they haven’t even taken the time to know or appreciate. Also one final remark, The Beatles suck.