These are the Parts for Eleanor's Piece composed by Hugh Wood for two string quartets. This beautiful work lasts around 3 minutes and the music includes parts for 2 Violin I 2Violin II 2 Violas and 2 Cellos. Born in Lancashire and enjoying a thoroughly musical upbringing Hugh Wood graduated from Oxford after studying History and decided that composition was his truecalling. His works are characterised by divine expressionism and subtle lyricism with Eleanor's Wood being no exception.

Vagn Holmobe's Vivace - Tempo di Ardeleana for String Quartet. From 'Døgnets Timer' Op. 128. Score: WH31825

Set of parts for String Quartet No.4 by Poul Ruders dating from 2012. Score available: WH31600 Programme Note: It might be of interest for some to note that a gap of only six months separates the writing of my second and third quartets (1979) but a 33 year interval stands between the third and the present piece String Quartet No. 4.Which is in five movements and is about nothing but itself. The first movement 'Adagio - Presto alla breve - Adagio' is an overture of sorts lifting the lid as it were on the odd bit of what happens later on in the other movements.A portal into:The second movement 'Vivo scherzando' which is just that: a short (2 minutes only) fast and jocular piece leading up to the next movement: 'Adagio sognante' a slow and hushed dream-world paving the way for the pièce de resistance of the entire quartet: 'Presto alla breve' a ferociously fast tour de force for the four players who with that one under their belts can lean back a little (but only a little) and put the whole thing gently to bed in the fifth and final movement: a simple 'Adagio'. Off the record: my first string quartet (1972) has been withdrawn and is no more a fact that renders the numbering of the subsequent quartets a matter of personal conviction. Poul Ruders November 2012

Italian Quartets Salzburg Divertimenti. This volume brings together Mozart?s youthful attempts at this later so central genre of the string quartet: the astonishing ?Lodi Quartet? K. 80 by the only fourteen-year-old composer, the three ?Quartet-Divertimenti? K. 136?138 which are also readily played by chamber orchestras, and Mozart?s first true string-quartet cycle K. 155?160 which was composed during his third (north-)Italian journey in 1772/73. Mozart?s cleanly written scores of all the compositions have been preserved so that the edition stands on a secure foundation. In his informative commentary, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the experienced Mozart editor at G. Henle Publishers, devotes a separate, comprehensive explanatory section to the well-known articulation problem ?dot or wedge?. The Armida Quartet provided artistic input for this edition.

8 Evergreens für Streicher-Popular classics brilliantly arranged for string quartet. Perfect light repertoire for weddings busking concerts or just for fun.Air (Bach)Leaning on a Lamp-post (Gay)Maria (Bernstein)Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Sherwin)Rondo alla Turca (Mozart)Slavonic Dance 8 (Dvorak)Träumerei (Schumann)Waltz Op12 (Grieg)