However, according to liner notes, this recording was made in 1987 for BIS, about two years after the 1985 recording by Helasvuo and the Finlandia Sinfonietta. ^ The musicologist Fabian Dahlström, in his 2003 catalogue of Sibelius's works, credits the Estonian-American conductor Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with the world premiere studio recording of Presto.^ Refers to the year in which the performers recorded the work this may not be the same as the year in which the recording was first released to the general public.^ All runtimes are official, as printed on CD or LP liner notes.The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings: Listen to Sibelius: String Quartet In B Flat - String Quartet In D Minor - Adagio In D Minor - Andante Festivo by Tempera Quartet on Apple Music. The Sibelius Academy Quartet made the world premiere studio recording of the B-flat major Quartet for Finlandia in 1985. The fourth movement, marked Allegro, is in 4Ĥ time it has a duration of about nine minutes.

The third movement, marked Presto, is in 3Ĥ time it has a duration of about six minutes. The second movement, marked Andante molto, is in 2Ĥ time it has a duration of about 7.5 minutes. The first movement, marked Allegro, is in 2Ģ time it has a duration of about nine minutes. The piece was published posthumously in 1991 by Fazer Music. This version received its premiere on 17 February 1894 in Turku, with Sibelius conducting the Orchestra of the Turku Musical Society. In February 1894, Sibelius arranged Movement III for strings and titled it Presto (also known as Scherzo). The B-flat major Quartet received its premiere in Helsinki on 13 October 1890 at the Helsinki Music Institute (now the Sibelius Academy) the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen was the first violinist, joined by Wilhelm Santé (violin II), Josef Schwartz (viola), and Otto Hutschenreuter (cello). Musicologists have speculated: first, that the Adagio in D minor ( JS 12) may have been intended as a slow movement for the Op. 4 quartet and second, that the Allegretto in B-flat major (without catalogue designation) may be an abandoned sketch. It is the third of Sibelius's four string quartets. The String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 4, is a four- movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello written from the summer of 1889 to September 1890 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

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