SKU: NR.25289
Orchestration: violin, strings 4-4-3-3-2.
SKU: HL.51481272
UPC: 840126989250. 9.0x12.0x0.348 inches.
Alexander Zemlinsky's music was long unjustly overshadowed by what was regarded as the “more progressive†Second Viennese School. Although Zemlinsky was close friends with its protagonist Arnold Schönberg, he never did take the latter's radical step into dodecaphony. At the same time, he composed works that were no less original or fully fledged. Composed between 1913 and 1915, his Second String Quartet in particular pushed the contemporaneous understanding of form and tonality to its limits. With just one movement but spanning over 1,200 measures, this multi-faceted work numbers among the most significant contributions to the genre of the time and has long merited a critical new edition. The Urtext edition by G. Henle Publishers corrects many errors and inaccuracies in the first edition that came to light after careful comparison with the autograph sources in Vienna and Washington. For the first time, too, the metronome markings that survive only in one of Zemlinsky's letters have been incorporated. Editorial work was kindly supported by the Alexander Zemlinsky Endowment Fund in Vienna.
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SKU: AP.36-52703038
ISBN 9781682962220. UPC: 654690580573. English.
Bach's organ works seem to work perfectly for string quartet, with everyone getting in on the thematic material. These two works are among his best-known and are a nice addition to the concert and contest repertoire. Contents: Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582.
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SKU: AP.36-52703016
ISBN 9781633611047. UPC: 654690579621. English.
More traditional Scottish favorites in medley form (reels, strathspeys, jigs, hornpipes and slow airs) including virtuosic works by Scott Skinner and new originals from Tony Kime. Tune list: Mhairi's Wedding, Dr. Cameron's Jig, The Bonnie Lass o' Bonaccord, Lady Mary Ramsey, Alice Eileen, The Steam-Boat, Kelso Square, and The Mathematician.
SKU: AP.36-52703155
ISBN 9781628761153. UPC: 654690583673. English.
Bach's famous "Brandenburg Concertos" are considered by many to be the pinnacle of the Baroque Concerto Grosso style. These arrangements of the "Brandenburgs" for string quartet by Lynne Latham have become much-used by professionals and students alike.
SKU: AP.36-52703014
ISBN 9781628761061. UPC: 654690579492. English.
Six more Christmas favorites for string quartet: Still, Still, Still; Pat a Pan; What Child is This?; Coventry Carol/Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light; O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen/Carol of the Bells.
SKU: AP.36-52703034
ISBN 9781682962206. UPC: 654690579935. English.
Bach's organ works seem to work perfectly for string quartet, with everyone getting in on the thematic material. These three works are some of his best-known and are a nice addition to the concert and contest repertoire. Contents: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537; Great Fugue in G minor, BWV 542; Fugue in D major, BWV 532.
SKU: HL.250885
ISBN 9781540012050. UPC: 888680715045. 8.5x11.75x0.17 inches.
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SKU: HL.50601308
Premiered on 7 May 2017 in Hamburg by the Minguet Quartet in the Elbphilharmonie.
SKU: HL.50601303
UPC: 888680954192.
SKU: HL.50601299
8.25x11.75x0.126 inches.
“In diesem Augenblick†(In This Moment) is the first work for string quartet by the Chinese composer Yang Lin, born in Beijing in 1982. The work was given its world premiere in November 2010 by the Amaryllis Quartet at the Laeizshalle in Hamburg. “In diesem Augenblick†is concerned with the brief moment between two events, comparable with the interval between two steps whilst walking: “This brief moment, this motion in detail that one does not usually notice, has been given a great deal of attention. But it does not mean that this moment stops. There remains a contradictory moment that remembers the tensions and vibrations of the past an, at the same time, awaits the peace of the future.†(Yang Lin).
SKU: NR.104553
For string quartet, 1998 Score+4parts.
SKU: FG.55011-510-1
ISBN 9790550115101.
Matt hew Whittall's preface to Bright Ferment (2019): I have a complicated history with the string quartet. Actually, it's not that complicated. I spent months writing a huge one in my early twenties and hastily withdrew it after a long delayed premiere, vowing never to write another. In a typical case of karmic retribution, my fear of the form would eventually be overcome by the unrefusable offer to write the compulsory piece for the Banff International String Quartet Competition in my native Canada. The short duration requested, about nine minutes, also felt like a good way to wade gingerly back into the medium. The title was originally just a nice-sounding pair of words that surfaced in a brainstorming session with fellow composer Alex Freeman over an injudicious amount of fermented barley. When I looked it up later, I found that it was a phrase of older coinage, seemingly used more for poetic resonance than any fixed meaning. Ferment by itself denotes a state of confusion, change or lack of order. With bright, it takes on a more positive connotation with regard to society and creativity: a wild profusion of ideas barely checked by reason. (It may not actually mean that, but it describes this piece nicely, so let's go with it.) Fermentation in its trendy culinary usage is also hinted at via a recurrent percolating device of scattered pizzicati. As one may guess from the tone of this introduction, there is little attempt at gravity in Bright Ferment, the only means by which I felt I could sidestep the historical and expressive weight of the string quartet genre. Styles, gestures and moods are tossed around, cross-cut and abandoned in stream-of-consciousness fashion, connected by little except an intuitive sense of rightness in their juxtaposition. If the piece acquires depth in spite of me, it will only be because its disparate parts amplify and strengthen each other simply by being together - much like the ensemble itself. Bright Ferment was commissioned by the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with additional funding from the Americas Society (New York), for the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Duration: ca. 9 minutes.
SKU: VD.ED88815
ISBN 9790202098158. 12 x 9 inches.
SKU: FG.55011-574-3
ISBN 9790550115743.
Kale vi Aho (b.1949) was only 18 years old when he completed his String Quartet no. 1 in g minor (1967). Nonetheless it was already the second one of its kind: the earlier string quartet in a minor got christened String Quartet No. 0 and banned from performing. The g minor quartet was heard the first time only 50 years after it was born, when the Kamus Quartet premiered it at the Musica Kalevi Aho Festival in Forssa on June 28, 2019. In Aho's home town, Forssa, it was not possible to study composition with a teacher: My model in this and the other works I composed while I was at school was all the mostly tonal music I had personally played on the violin or heard on the radio. The first movement, Moderato, begins in variation form, until followed by a fugue based on the variation theme. The initially lyrical second movement has a quick, virtuosic and light middle section. The third movement is a very quick scherzo that becomes dramatic, and the work ends with a chorale-like finale. The composer tells: When I got to study composition at the Sibelius Academy in autumn 1968 and showed the quartet to my teacher, Einojuhani Rautavaara, he said there was no point my studying tonal harmony and tonal formal constructions any longer; that I could do the exams in them straight away and start the courses in modern music resources there and then..
SKU: FG.55011-639-9
ISBN 9790550116399.
New Urtext edition (2020) of Einojuhani Rautavaara's String Quartet No. 1 is based on the composer's manuscript, incorporating corrections and comments by composer's hand in various sources. Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was one of Finland's internationally most successful composers. He made his major breakthrough with the Seventh Symphony, Angel of Light, in the 1990s, but his output includes numerous classic operas, concertos, chamber music works and choral works. Over his extensive career, he progressed from Neo-Classicism to strict dodecaphony to free-tonal Neo-Romanticism. His catalogue of influences over the decades includes Orthodox liturgical music and Finnish fiddlers. Rautavaara's first string quartet (1953) is from his Neo-Classical early period when he composed only little chamber music. Stravinsky and the Finnish folk music are present in the rhythmical first movement; later enters a characteristic scale alternating half and whole steps. After the Slavic romanticism of the slow movement Andante the fiddler is back in the cheerful Gigue.
SKU: VD.ED20175
ISBN 9790202041758. 12 x 9 inches.
SKU: VD.ED20172
ISBN 9790202041727. 12 x 9 inches.
SKU: HL.367877
ISBN 9781705140338. UPC: 840126966695. 9.0x12.0x0.522 inches.
Like much of Reza Vali's music, this string quartet can either be played with traditional Persian tuning or with a mixture of traditional Persian tuning and the European Equal Temperament Tuning. Performance instructions to help with unique notation and details on the tuning options are included with the music.
SKU: HL.367874
ISBN 9781705140307. UPC: 840126966664. 9.0x12.0x0.523 inches.
Commissione d by Caramoor Music Festival in New York and premiered July 14, 2017 by the Argus Quartet, this work is in no small part a response to this quartet's sense of adventure and expressive emotional range. Inspired by two end-of-civilization novels the composer was reading prior to composing the work, the quartet unfolds in a single movement, loosely based on plot lines in both novels. One of the novels includes a Traveling Symphony, an assortment of musicians and actors who travel the countryside for decades playing symphonies, jazz and orchestral arrangements of popular music alongside performances of Shakespeare plays, reminiscent of medieval troupes traveling the countryside in plague-ridden times. The work is written so that the quartet embodies the Traveling Symphony, not only playing music but also singing and 'stage whispering' fragments of King Lear and other text across the collection of nine scenes.
SKU: HL.367873
ISBN 9781705140291. UPC: 840126966657. 9.0x12.0x0.655 inches.
SKU: BT.EMBZ7030
SKU: BT.ESZ-00666600
SKU: BT.EMBZ7274
SKU: BT.EMBZ4598
SKU: BT.EMBZ1984
SKU: BT.EMBZ40128
The six-movement composition written in 1959 is Kurtág's opus no. 1. It emerged after the composer's study tour to Paris which brought about his rethinking of the process of composition and the discarding of his earlier written works and meant at the same time the beginning of the composer's creative period which has lasted ever since. Die 1959 geschriebene sechssätzige Komposition Kurtágs trägt die Opusnummer 1. Sie entstand nach seiner Pariser Studienreise, die ein Neudenken des Kompositionsvorgangs, das Verwerfen der früher komponierten Werke und den Beginn der bis heute dauernden Schaffensperiode des Komponisten bedeutete.
SKU: BT.EMBZ4482
SKU: BT.EMBZ5747
SKU: BT.EMBZ5200
