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Want to hear something good? Fortunately, there's plenty of good, at the record shop. We'll do a sampling of recent releases, mainly winners.
Begin with Sibelius. We're apt to know the Second or Fifth Symphony, and the little, haunting Valse triste, and maybe the violin concerto -- and we surely know that great nationalist blast, Finlandia. But we're less apt to know Sibelius's chamber music, which is why it's good to have the complete string quartets on -- what other label? -- Finlandia. This music is very much like Sibelius: pure, cool, strange, subtle, suddenly emotional, energetic. It evokes an entire climate, or state of mind. The quartets on these (two) ...