SKU: BA.BA09031-40
ISBN 9790006568529. 24 x 17 cm inches. Key: C-sharp minor.
This separately published Critical Commentary offers extensive information on the genesis, reception, sources, and readings of the works included in the music volume.
SKU: HL.49019413
ISBN 9790001176477. UPC: 841886016729.
The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leipzig, first privately, then in his composition class at the conservatoire and valued her 'extraordinary compositional talent'. The strict teacher more and more became a committed promoter of the works by Johanna Senfter. For a period of 50 years, the composer concerned herself with the string quartet genre, from Quartet No. 1 in D minor Op. 4, composed shortly after the turn of the century, to the sixth and last Quartet in C minor Op. 115 which was performed for the first time in 1960, one year before her death. The Quartet in F sharp minor Op. 28 is her second quartet which was premiered in Darmstadt on 5 November 1922. In this work, as in later works, Senfter combined traditional form models - here Baroque movements like gavotte, saraband, gigue - with expressive, late Romantic musical language. The work, consisting of six short movements, may without doubt be regarded as a valuable addition to the quartet repertoire.
SKU: HL.51484211
ISBN 9790201842110. UPC: 888680601201. 10.25x13 inches.
Contents:String Quartet E flat major op. 127String Quartet B flat major op. 130 - Grand Fugue op. 133String Quartet c sharp minor op. 131String Quartet a minor op. 132String Quartet F major op. 135Anhang: Allegretto für Streichquartett b minor WoO 210Anhang: Streichquartett (Frühfassung des 1. Satzes) c sharp minor op. 131.
SKU: HL.51484212
ISBN 9790201842127. UPC: 888680601195. 10.25x13.0x1.41 inches.
Contents: String Quartet E flat major op. 127 String Quartet B flat major op. 130 - Grand Fugue op. 133 String Quartet c sharp minor op. 131 String Quartet a minor op. 132 String Quartet F major op. 135 Anhang: Allegretto fur Streichquartett b minor WoO 210 Anhang: Streichquartett (Fruhfassung des 1. Satzes) c sharp minor op. 131.
SKU: BA.BA09031
ISBN 9790006568536. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Key: C-sharp minor.
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SKU: HL.14031816
8.5x11.75x0.3 inches.
Though conceived as four separate movements, my second string quartet has a single motif which is common to them all. This is the three-note Muss es sein? from Beethoven's last quartet, Op. 135. But whereas Beethoven's theme is notated G E A flat, thus giving it an F minor connotation, I have sued an alternative spelling - G E G sharp - which suggests an ambiguous E minor-major. This ambiguity, in fact, becomes the tonal basis of the whole work, only to be resolved at the end of the final movement. Each movement begins with a variant of the basic motif on the cello. The first has the original form of the theme, while the second has a majorised version which is also expressed as a chord. The third movement, with its scherzoid middle section, reverts to the major-minor ambiguity of the first, and the finale begins with the majorised version as an ostinato accompaniment on pizzicato cello. The slow movement is sub-titled In memoriam DSCH and concludes with a quotation of Shostakovich's motto - D E flat C B - which is basically the same as Beethoven's with the addition of one note. This is not to imply that the work contains no other thematic material. One important theme, a rising fifth and a second, is also common to three of the movements, and is ultimately derived from my first quartet, Op. 1 of 27 years earlier, to which this second contribution to the form is in many ways like a sequel. Like the earlier work, too, this quartet is dedicated to my wife.
SKU: AP.6-401111
ISBN 9780486401119. English.
Among the master's most exalted compositions, these selections include String Quartets No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127; No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130; No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131; No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132; the Grosse Fuge in B-flat, Op. 133; and No. 16 in F, Op. 135.
