play pause radio-play skip-back skip-forward playing search copy check embed close plus caret-down caret-left caret-right caret-up chevron-down chevron-left chevron-right chevron-up arrow-left arrow-right open-in-new-tab filter menu more-horizontal more-vertical share share-android select star star-block volume-block volume-mute-block volume-mute volume lock settings recording composition devices laptop speaker
Log inCreate account

Smetana: String Quartets Nos. 1 "From My Life" & 2; Sibelius: Voces intimae

11/10/2023, 13 Tracks, 1:17:53

Featuring

  • Krysia Osostowicz
  • Giles Francis
  • Judith Busbridge
  • Bernard Gregor-Smith
  • Dante Quartet
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Bedřich Smetana

Did you know?

1/6

Composer's Artistic Vision

The works on this album offer a rare insight into the private musical thoughts of composers who were outwardly nationalist.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The front illustration of the album features "Spring Evening, Ice Break" (1897) by Hugo Simberg.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Dante Quartet chose its name to reflect the idea of an epic journey.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Dante Quartet, the ensemble performing on this album, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007, a Diapason d'Or in 2008, and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2009.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The Dante Quartet prepared for this recording on the forested estate near Prague where composer Bedřich Smetana spent his final years.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Both Bedřich Smetana and Jean Sibelius, composers featured on this album, embraced the string quartet form during periods of personal crisis.

Source: Booklet

You might also enjoy...

Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 4, 8 & 11
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No.1 / Borodin: String Quartet No.2 / Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8
Smetana, B.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Debussy, C.: String Quartet, Op. 10
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.4, 11 & 14
Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 4 & 6 - Seiber: String Quartet No. 3
The Stuyvesant String Quartet: In Concert at the Library of Congress
Borodin, Dvorak & Shostakovich String Quartets
Borodin: String Quartet No.2 / Dvořák: String Quartet 'American' / Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8
Sibelius: String Quartets
Sibelius: String Quartets
Intimate Voices - Sibelius String Quartets
Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Béla Bartók
©℗ 2011 Hyperion