Piano Quintet in G minor
by Jean Sibelius
The composer in 1889
CatalogueJS 159
Composed1890 (1890)
PublisherHansen (1993)[1]
Duration36.5 mins.[2]
Movements5

The Piano Quintet in G minor, JS 159, is a five-movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, cello, and piano[3] written in 1890 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. When composing the piece, Sibelius replaced the original Movement IV (marked Vivace) with a scherzo (Vivacissimo); the earlier Vivace is extant. At neither of the two concerts at which the quintet was played was it heard in its entirety, and Movement V went unperformed until 1965. As a result, Sibelius rescued themes from the quintet's finale by reusing them for the Rondo in D minor (JS 162) for viola and piano duo, as well as the first of the Six Impromptus (Op. 5/1) for solo piano.[4]

Structure

The G minor quintet is in five movements, as follows:

  1. Grave – Allegro
  2. Intermezzo. Moderato
  3. Andante
  4. Scherzo. Vivacissimo
  5. Moderato – Vivace

The piece was published posthumously in 1993 by Edition Wilhelm Hansen.[1]

Discography

The Finnish pianist Erik T. Tawaststjerna and the Sibelius Academy Quartet made the world premiere studio recording of the G minor quintet for Finlandia in 1985.[1] The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:

No. Violin I Violin II Viola Cello Piano Runtime[lower-alpha 1] Rec.[lower-alpha 2] Recording venue Label Ref.
1 Seppo Tukiainen Erkki Kantola Veikko Kosonen Arto Noras Erik T. Tawaststjerna 36:15 1985 Roihuvuoren kirkko Finlandia
2 John Georgiadis Brendan O'Reilly Ian Jewel Keith Harvey Anthony Goldstone 39:35 1989 Snape Maltings Concert Hall Chandos
3 Götz Bernau Antti Meurman Ulla Kekko Juha Malmivaara Ella & Jaakko Untamala 37:30 1994 [Unknown], Kuopio Edition Abseits
4 Jaakko Kuusisto Laura Vikman Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic Joel Laakso Folke Gräsbeck 38:53 2005 Järvenpää Hall BIS
5 Roger Coull Philip Gallaway Gustav Clarkson Nicholas Roberts Martin Roscoe 37:16 2008 St Paul's Church, Birmingham Somm

Notes, references, and sources

Notes
References
  1. 1 2 3 Dahlström 2003, p. 598.
  2. ↑ Dahlström 2003, pp. 596–598.
  3. ↑ Dahlström 2003, p. 596.
  4. ↑ Barnett 2007, pp. 56–58, 84.
Sources
  • Barnett, Andrew (2007). Sibelius. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11159-0.
  • Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke [Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 3-7651-0333-0.
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