“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 ...

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 ...

The repertoire for string quartet was rich before Bela Bartok took up the genre in the first decade of the 20th century. But the Hungarian composer stretched tradition in every direction, creating six ...