George Nicholson's String Quartet No.5.George Nicholson was born in County Durham in 1949 and studied at the University of York with David Blake and Bernard Rands receiving his doctorate in 1979. For ten years he pursued a freelance career in London before being appointed Lecturer in Music and Director of Composition at Keele University in 1988. In January 1996 he took up the post of Senior Lecturer in Composition at Sheffield University.

Par ONSLOW GEORGE. 32e quintette pour deux violons, deux altos et violoncelle. Opus 78. Editions : Paris, Brandus, (s.d. = 1851). Composition : 1848.Présentation : Introduction, dates essentielles de la vie de George Onslow, l'édition de Brandus et la copie de Gouffé.Edition de Brandus, en parties séparées : 1er violon - 2d violon - 1er alto - 2me alto - violoncelle. Quintette en ré mineur.Mise en partition manuscrite de la main de Gouffé.Une oeuvre de musique de chambre absolument remarquable. Le compositeur, que l'on connaît mieux grâce à la biographie de Viviane NIAUX, devrait maintenant prendre la place qu'il mérite. / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / Quintette à Cordes (Fac-similé)

George Nicholson's String Quartet No.5.George Nicholson was born in County Durham in 1949 and studied at the University of York with David Blake and Bernard Rands receiving his doctorate in 1979. For ten years he pursued a freelance career in London before being appointed Lecturer in Music and Director of Composition at Keele University in 1988. In January 1996 he took up the post of Senior Lecturer in Composition at Sheffield University.

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. The Study Score for George Benjamin's Viola, Viola '. . .a virtuoso tour de force. . .a visceral dialectic, powered by nervous energy.' The Times (Helen Wallace), 21 October 1998/ Répertoire / Conducteur

George Nicholson's Salut for String Quartet. The death of Peter Cropper in May 2015 was an immeasurable blow to the musical community especially to those of us who knew him not only as a wonderful wise musician but also as a warm colleague and friend. His unceasing devotion to the cause of music and to the promotion of excellent standards in performance was in my experience beyond compare. The finest tribute we can pay him is to continue to make music to the best of our ability and to go on reaching out to continue to explore and learn. I always felt that I would need to commemorate Peter in a piece for StringQuartet the medium he was most obviously associated with and in Salut it is understandably the first Violin part that has pride of place. The piece develops contrasting textures and registers and above all it is concerned with the influence of the extremely high Violin writing at the beginning on the rest of the ensemble. - George Nicholson Salut was first performed by the Ligeti Quartet Firth Hall University of Sheffield 17 May 2016.

Par LEWIS GEORGE. Although his Signifying Riffs (1998) for percussion and strings is halfway there, String Quartet 1.5: Experiments in Living (2016) is the first proper string quartet by composer George Lewis. Borrowing its title from the writings of John Stuart Mill, Experiments in Living leads the performers through a series of idiosyncratic episodes featuring extremes of gesture and extended technique over the course of a single, 16-minute movement. Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, String Quartet 1.5: Experiments in Living was composed for Spektral Quartet, who gave the premiere performance in October 2016 at Chicago\'s Harris Theater. This set of score and parts has been made available for sale by Edition Peters as part of the Peters Contemporary Chamber Series and includes full performance notes. Chopsticks and superball mallets are required to achieve some of the score\'s percussive playing techniques. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. For 10 beguiling minutes, the two instruments take turns offering fierce or lyrical outbursts, either individually or in close-knit counterpoint. . .The effect is mesmerizing. . . San Francisco Chronicle (Joshua Kosman), 7 May 1999/ Répertoire / Ensemble d'Altos

Score for String Quartet No.4 by George Nicholson. Written for the Ligeti String Quartet.

Par ONSLOW GEORGE / SCHMIDT. / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Basson, Cor et Contrebasse

Praeludium On The Name George Frideric Handel was commissioned by the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (of which Handel was a founder member in 1738) and first performed by the Navarra String Quartet as part of the RSM?s Jacqueline du Pré Charity Concert at London?s Wigmore Hall on 3rd March 2015.

Par ONSLOW GEORGE / SCHMIDT. / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Basson, Cor et Contrebasse

Les mélodies de George Gershwin (1898-1937), de comédies musicales 'Porgy and Bess', à partir de pièces orchestrales comme 'Rhapsody in Blue' ou 'Un Américain à Paris', nous les connaissons tous! Mais la carrière du jeune musicien a commencé comme pianiste dans une maison d'édition de musique où il était d'encourager les clients à acheter de la musique en la jouant. Bientôt il a commencé à composer de la musique lui-même et a attiré l'attention de la Broadway, qui a ouvert la voie à sa carrière internationale. Inspiré par Frédéric Chopin 24 Préludes, il a commencé à écrire ses propres préludes 'pour le piano dans les milieu des années 1920: Sur les cinq préludes composées par lui, il a utilisé deux pour' Short Story 'la composition violon et présenté les trois autres à un concert le 4 Décembre 1926. Ces 'Préludes 'allier moments classiques et des éléments de jazz dans un ensemble efficace et peut être joué individuellement ou en sonate peu de jazz (vif - lent - rapide). Merci à l'arrangement actuel, les charmantes miniatures sont maintenant disponibles dans une version pour instrument soliste et piano. / Alto Et Piano