From veteran music educator and composer Carold Nunez comes this outstanding teaching piece for ensemble playing. It features solid beginning keys of D and G and gives all players interesting melodic parts along with a few rhythmic “teaching moments.”

Parts available (NOV120161-01). This work was written during the spring of 1964 and was commissioned by the artist Maurice de Sausmarez in memory of his mother Jessie Rose de Sausmarez. The first performance took place in London during the same year. The work is a kind of epitaph or memorial and each movement tries to express a different aspect of grief culminating in a more extended elegiac fugue. All seven variations are based on a single series of notes and the series is used both thematically and as a structural basis. There is therefore no 'theme' in the traditional sense and in this respect the work follows the practice of many modern essays in variationform.

Mathias' third and final quartet was commissioned by the 1986 Harrogate International Festival and premiered there in August that year by the Medici Quartet. It has three movements: the first takes the form of a sonata the second starts off as mysterious and lyrical and moves into a fiery climax and the third uses exciting fugal passages and 'scherzando' sections which make for a thrilling conclusion.

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Written for the Endellion Quartet in 1990. Duration 13 minutes. Parts available: SOS03190

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen große Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Barock bis zur klassischen Moderne ab und blickt auf eine lange Tradition zurück.

Written for his colleague Janos Starker David Baker's Quintet (also called the Two Cello Quintet) was premiered at Indiana University's Eva Janzer Memorial Concert. The Bloomington press wrote of the performance: a romantic work...eclectic and conservative but in this instance (Baker's) writing had a special sense of urgency that grabbed one's attention and kept it focused on the piece.