Par HOSOKAWA TOSHIO. In my sixth work for a string quartet, there is a very simple melody concealed in the background. That melody (distant voices) is played within an extremely slow tempo, and the notes which form the melody gain different textures by becoming disassembled, and played by different techniques. In our daily lives, our inner voices become concealed by our daily customs. The act of composing, to me, is to find out that concealed distant voices, make those voices spatialized and construct them within the musical time. This work is dedicated to Alois Lageder. Toshio Hosokawa / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

for String Quartet. Par STREICH LISA. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

in E flat major. Par STEFANI JAN. Composition was completed at the beginning of 1825, in stylistic terms it falls between Classicism and Romanticism. The straddling of stylistic epochs is evident in the four-movement design of the quartet, which refers do Classical solutions established during the previous centrury also in other genres. Nethertheles, it is worth drawing attention to the third movement, the minuet, which represented something of a testing ground for contrasting tradition with progress, history with the present, and formal with frivolous, which these popular dances may have symbolised. Stylistic hanges heading towards Romanticism are evident also in the way the work's melodic layer is organise. The Józef Stefani's advanced compositional skills prove his crucial contribution to the evolution of the string quartet on Polish soil. And the catchy melodic phases - for which Stefani ceirtanly had a gift - will stir the emotions of a many listener. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par CLERC EMMANUEL. Quatre textes mis en musique pour quatuor à cordes : une évocation du grillon qui vit caché et heureux, du chat qui sert en voulant nuire, de la montagne qui accouche d'une souris, et enfin de la rose-thé, la plus délicate de toutes ! Musiques exquises, tout en nuances, aux mélodies raffinées et aux harmonies subtiles qui éclairent d'un jour nouveau ces textes du XVIIIe ou XIXe. Des mélodies élégantes pour illustrer ces fables sensibles, astucieuses ou espiègles/ Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes