Intimate Miniatures (in Swedish: ), 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 (violins), John Hylbom (viola), and (cello).
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 venueLabelHelsingborg Quartet198613:00Big Ben PhonogramStenhammar Quartet200813:33Swedish Radio Studio 2Daphne
Notes, references, and sources