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Sibelius's "Intimate Voices" quartet

After composing his string quartet known as "Intimate Voices", Jean Sibelius wrote, "It's the kind of music that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death." Sibelius had just been diagnosed with cancer - he believed he had been given a death sentence - yet the composer lived another 48 years. Hear the quartet with a life of its own, String Quartet in D minor 'Voces intimae', on Friday's Performance Today.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Antonin Dvorak: Polonaise from Rusalka
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
Exotic Dances from the OPERA
Reference Recordings RR-71CD

Frederic Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat major, Op. 53
Ran Dank, piano
The Gilmore International keyboard Festival, Wellspring Theater, Kalamazoo, MI

Alejandro Garcia Caturla: Danzon
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 "Intimate Voices"
Meccore String Quartet: Wojiech Koprowski, violin; Jaroslaw Nadrzycki, violin; Michal Bryla, viola; Karol Marianowski, cello
The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL

Hour 2

Leos Janacek: In the Mists: Movement 1
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Janacek: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 - In the Mists etc
Virgin 91222

Leos Janacek: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Miriam Fried, violin; Jonathan Biss, piano
92nd Street Y, New York, NY

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture to "Ruy Blas", Op. 95
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
The Barbican Centre, London, England
**Classical Live - available on Google Play**

Anthony DiLorenzo: Jabberwocky
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra; Alastair Willis, conductor
The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX

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