Matériel : Conducteur et Parties séparées
SKU: HL.48025043
UPC: 196288021728.
Ignac e Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize of the Weimar Republic, made a career as a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera after his emigration in 1934. His String Quartet No. 1, probably written in 1927 as the final work of his studies with Schreker, is an early work of the highest perfection. In the first of the two movements, grotesque-capricious scenariosare revitalized by contrapuntal artistry. The second, non less polypohnic, is a widely branched scherzo with an elegiac trio section. Just as striking is the harmony: With individually shaping of all four parts, all facets up to polytonality and complete detachment from functional tonality are explored - in a certain affinity with the musical language of Alban Berg, not without tongue-in-cheek references to the neoclassicism of the 1920s. A just as original as important contribution to the quartet repertoireof the early twentieth century.
SKU: SU.27040240
A work to be programmed alongside the infamous Mozart and Brahms clarinet quintets—the latter of which appropriates thematic materials from the former. This work is based on thematic materials found in both, sometimes in very subtle ways. A predominately diatonic harmonic vocabulary prevails throughout and is set in a single-movement form consisting of three main sections: a spirited and brisk middle section offsets the elegiac and melancholic mood of the two outer sections.Clarinet and Sting Quartet Duration: 10' Composed: 2010 Published by: Hutter Music.