Aulis Sallinen: String quartet no. 4

Aulis Sallinen’s one-movement fourth 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. Now also available as pdf edition! Duration ca. 14 minutes. Buy now