/ Quatuor A Cordes
SKU: HL.14023668
ISBN 9780711932975. 9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.
String Quartet No.3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins, for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian, Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed, quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.
SKU: HL.14047983
ISBN 9788759817469. 9.75x14.25x0.072 inches. English.
Parts for Hans Abrahamsen's String Quartet No.3 (2008).
SKU: HL.14020979
ISBN 9781846091193. UPC: 884088435172. 5.5x7.5x0.125 inches.
The third in the series of ten Quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall, London in Oct 2003 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient, miniature-sized version of the score intended for study. Performance parts are available available: CH67045-01.
SKU: HL.14035183
ISBN 9780711976689. 9.0x12.0x0.372 inches.
Kevin Volans has been described as one of the more inventive composers since Stravinsky. Songlines was composed in 1988, and revised in 1993. Score available: CH61335.