Intimate Miniatures


Intimate Miniatures, Op. 20, is a four-movement suite for string quartet written in 1938 by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson. Originally, the pieces were part of a longer, six-movement "lyrical suite" called Late Autumn Leaves, which Larsson had written to accompany a recitation of poems about fall by the Swedish writer Ola Hansson.
The premiered Late Autumn Leaves on 20 November 1938, with the Swedish actor Ivar Kåge as narrator; the performers were: and Folke Reinholdson, John Hylbom, and .
The Prim Quartet premiered Intimate Miniatures at the Fylkingen venue in Stockholm, Sweden, on 25 October 1940.

Structure

The movements of Late Autumn Leaves are as follows; = Not included in Intimate Miniatures
The movements of Intimate Miniatures are as follows:
Note that Larsson reordered the movements.

Recordings

The sortable table below lists commercially available recordings of Intimate Miniatures:
EnsembleFirst violinSecond violinViolaCelloTimeRecording venueLabel
Helsingborg Quartet198613:00Big Ben Phonogram
Stenhammar Quartet200813:33Swedish Radio Studio 2Daphne