For String Quartet.Published 1984-5.Commissioned by Wolfson College Oxford with funds from Southern Arts.First performance: the Fairfield Quartet Wolfson College Oxford 2nd March 1985.Parts.

For Isang Yun String Quartet No. 3 from 1959 marked the beginning of his European creative phase and of his official canon of works. Now it is possible to encounter Yun's early works from his Korean period in the form of his String Quartet No. 1 (1955). Three important 10-minute movements containing references not only to Asia but also to Ravel Bartók and Eastern European folk music and having an idiosyncratic structure: Yun lines up forms and figures makes them emerge from each other in a contrasting manner and assembles them into a mosaic-like whole seeking for integration laying down his material in layer upon layer and ending themovements with a rhythmic unison. […] Even then he probably regarded a work of art as an energetic stream of sounds and as a reflection of a world whose diverging parts weave into a harmonic whole. (Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer)

These three String Quartets are part of six published in two volumes by SJ Music (the other volume of three quartets is Q2003-2). They are tuneful and straightforward to play.Maddelena Lombardini-Sirmen a violinist singer and composer was born in Venice in 1745 and was at one time a pupil of Tartini. Leopold Mozart mentioned hearing 'a beautifully written concerto' by her in a letter to his wife and son Wolfgang in 1778.

A Bright Birthday Serenade In Style Of Mozart. Par PAUL DIETRICH. Cette serenade Joyeux anniversaire, composée dans le style de Mozart et arrangé par Paul Dietrich, utilise les chansons connues anniversaire ' Happy Birthday to You ' (thème 1) et ' Hoch soll er leben' (thème 2). Initialement écrite pour le piano et maintenant fixé pour les chaînes par l'arrangeur expérimenté, Wolfgang Birtel, cette pièce est agréable et amusant pour tous les amateurs de Mozart - et convient aussi comme un morceau d'encore dans les concerts./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes ou Contrebasse Ad Libitum

This collection of ten compositions for string quartet by Mozart includes six pieces dedicated to Joseph Haydn and three pieces composed for the king of Prussia. The King of Prussia for whom Mozart composed some of these quartets for was by all accounts a Cellist of no mean ability; especially if one may judge by these works whose Cello parts are elaborate and demanding often soaring into the upper ranges leaving the viola to take up its momentarily abandoned role as bass instrument! Works include String Quartet No. 14 in G major K387 'Spring' String Quartet No. 15 in D minor K421 String Quartet No. 16 in E flat K428 String Quartet No. 17 inB flat major K458 'The Hunt' String Quartet No. 18 in A Major K464 'Drum' String Quartet No. 19 in C major K465 'Dissonance' String Quartet No. 20 in D major K499 'Hoffmeister' String Quartet No. 21 in D major K575 'Prussian No. 1' String Quartet No. 22 in B flat major K589 'Prussian No. 2' and String Quartet No. 23 in F Major K590 'Prussian No. 3'