String quartet
SKU:
FG.042-06842-7
Composed by Aulis
Sallinen. Parts.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.042-06842-7).
ISBN
979-0-042-06842-7.
The one-movement fouth
string quartet (1971) has
a subtitle Quiet Songs
(Hiljaisia lauluja). In
contrast to the
splintered plurality of
the third quartet, the
fourth is a homogenous
minor-key landscape that
never rises above
mezzoforte. The subdued
resignation, somehow
recalling Shostakovich,
is interrupted only by a
few fleeting faster
sections.