Grieg, Sibelius & Thommessen: String Quartets

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The Engegårds' ensemble sound is characterful and lit from within by Carlsen and viola player Juliet Jopling. Their performances - lucidly captured by the BIS engineers - live in the moment:... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

Release Date: 26th Feb 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2101
Label: BIS
Length: 72 minutes

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Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Work length34:29

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Engegard Quartet
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Bryn Church, Bærum

I. Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato

Track length9:38

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II. Romanze. Andantino

Track length11:53

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III. Intermezzo. Allegro molto marcato - Più vivo e scherzando

Track length6:38

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IV. Finale. Lento - Presto al saltarello

Track length6:20

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Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 'Voces Intimae'

Work length32:05

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Engegard Quartet
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Bryn Church, Bærum

I. Andante - Allegro molto moderato

Track length8:54

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II. Vivace

Track length6:10

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III. Adagio di molto

Track length2:30

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IV. Allegretto ma pesante

Track length9:14

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V. Allegro

Track length5:17

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Thommessen: String Quartet No. 4 "Felix Remix" (After F. Mendelssohn)

Work length5:44

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Engegard Quartet
Recorded: April 2015
Recording Venue: Bryn Church, Bærum

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A string quartet was among the very first works that Edvard Grieg presented after completing his studies in 1861, but the Quartet in G minor, Op. 27, was the only such work to be published in his lifetime. In 1878, while composing it, Grieg wrote that ‘it aims at breadth, to soar, and, above all, at vigorous sound’, and the amplitude of the sound is indeed striking: the generous use of double-stops creates an almost orchestral effect, unusual for the genre. This caused some reviewers to criticize the quartet as being unidiomatic, while others, including Liszt, greeted it with enthusiasm. Some thirty years later, when Jean Sibelius composed his D minor quartet Op. 56, he too had previous experience of writing for the medium, but Op. 56 is the only quartet among his mature works. The often used 'nickname' Voces intimae is often taken to refer to the intimate interchange between the four voices in a quartet, but is probably a more specific allusion to a brief passage in the third movement: Sibelius wrote the remark into a score some time after the work had been published. On its first release on BIS the Engegård Quartet includes Felix Remix by Olav Anton Thommessen. The work, premièred by the Engegård Quartet in 2014, is based on the second movement, Allegro di molto, of Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet, Op. 44 No. 2.

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April 2016

The Engegårds' ensemble sound is characterful and lit from within by Carlsen and viola player Juliet Jopling. Their performances - lucidly captured by the BIS engineers - live in the moment: they're colourful, fluently paced and feel entirely spontaneous…but the more you listen to them the more you begin to sense the intelligence and refinement, as well as the freshness, of these readings

Grieg, Sibelius & Thommessen: String Quartets

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