String Quartet No.4

String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the ArdittiQuartet. Programme note: The basic idea for my Fourth String Quartet was very clear to me: It should be quiet and soft music or to put it in a german term: hoch im Himmel gesungen ... (High singing in heaven). Each of the four movements has a different scordatura/pitch. The first movement begins - like my work 'Schnee' - sky-high with an airy and soft melody by the first violin. The second movement is fast and movement and joy-like. It consists of two duets and a reverse style counterpoint. While the sections were progressively longer in the first movement they are getting shorter and shorter in the second. Dark, heavy and earthy is the third movement and its pizzicato recalls big black raindrops falling to the ground. It is the dark and grainy counterpart to the first movement whereas the fourth movement corresponds to the second. The fourth movement was planned as a dark and heavy counterpart but it turned out to be like babbling music of a child. My Fourth String Quartet has become in its way a serene and cool piece. So the Quartet has been finished luckiyly after twenty years - it was already in 1990 that I was commissioned by Wittener Tage fur Neue Musik to write the piece for Arditti Quartet. Hans Abrahamsen

Set of Parts String Quartet (String Parts)

SKU: HL.14012803

Composed by Philip Glass. Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Parts. 64 pages. Music Sales #DU10122. Published by Music Sales (HL.14012803).

ISBN 9780711988231. 8.25x11.75x0.184 inches.

Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 4 was composed as part of the Memorial concert for the artist Brian Buczak. Commissioned by Geoffrey Hendricks, it received its first performance on July 4, 1989 at the Emily Harvey Gallery in New York City.

Parts for String Quartet No.4 by Hans Abrahamsen (2012). Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the Arditti Quartet

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14021094

Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120834. Published by Music Sales (HL.14021094).

ISBN 9780853609216.

This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. A Score is also available for sale.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14035177

Composed by Kevin Volans. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 32 pages. Chester Music #CH61341. Published by Chester Music (HL.14035177).

ISBN 9780711979406. 8.25x11.75x0.142 inches.

Irish composer Kevin Volans' work has gained international acclaim over the years. Drawing on a combination of European and African compositional techniques, his music displays a unique charm. Volans' distinctive sound is heavily in demand, and since the mid-1980s his work has been performed regularly at such venues as the Pompidou Centre, the Royal Albert Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York. This work for string quartet was commissioned by the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and was first performed on the 16th December 1990 at the Almeida Theatre, London, by the Smith Quartet. Score. Parts available: CH61342.

By Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959). For string quartet (2 violins, viola, violoncello). Chamber music for strings. Czech title: Smy covy kvartet 4. Classical. Study score. Publication language: Czech/German/English/Fren ch

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14021095

Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Music Sales #NOV890194. Published by Music Sales (HL.14021095).

ISBN 9780853609186.

This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. Parts for this work are also available for sale.

By Philip Glass. For String Quartet. 20th Century. Sheet Music. 34 pages. Published by Chester Music.

Irish composer Kevin Volans' work has gained international acclaim over the years. Drawing on a combination of European and African compositional techniques, his music displays a unique charm. Volans' distinctive sound is heavily in demand, and since the mid-1980s his work has been performed regularly at such venues as the Pompidou Centre, the Royal Albert Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York. This work for string quartet was commissioned by the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and was first performed on the 16th December 1990 at the Almeida Theatre, London, by the Smith Quartet. Set of parts. Score available: CH61341

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14023640

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Sheet Music, Instrumental Work. With Text language: English. Chester Music #CH61327. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023640).

UPC: 884088676384. 8.75x11.75x0.375 inches.

String Quartet No.4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, Alan Bush. Duration 40 minutes. A score is available for sale.