SKU: HL.14042989

ISBN 9788759829240. English.

All In One for 3 String Quartets was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2013 (String Quartet No.12,13 and 14 played simultaneously).


Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has written a collection of three new string quartets: String Quartet no. 12, ‘Each in Each’; String Quartet no. 13, ‘Mutual Ordering’, and String Quartet no. 14, ‘Well-Tuned Sounds’. Each quartet can be played on its own; they can also played simultaneously in any combination. When all three quartets are played together, as they are tonight, the combined work is titled All in One. About this collection, Gudmundsen-Holmgreenwrites:


'Some years ago Kronos and the vocal group Theatre of Voices performed three new pieces, which I had written for the two groups: one for Theatre of Voices (Green), and two for Kronos (New Ground and No Ground). They were played and sung by each group independently – but also both groups together concurrently, on top of each other, as a final gesture. The combined pieces were called New Ground Green and No Ground Green.


'David liked the idea (and the result) of pairs of quartets that could be played both independently and simultaneously, and asked me if the vocal quartet could be transformed into a string quartet. It could not. He then asked me to repeat the whole set-up with a new pair of quartets, adding also some percussion instruments, as was the case with Green for Theatre of Voices. Of course this was tempting. Furthermore David asked me to make one of the two new quartets a little easier to play.
'I began to work. The Kronos part of the pair of quartets turned out to be tough to play, as David puts it. Unfortunately the ‘easier’ one was tough to play also! So I had to write one more, which was then a little easier still (but still not easy).
'The three new works can be played separately and on top of each other in many different combinations, resulting in different kinds of.

SKU: HL.49019465

ISBN 9783795708061. UPC: 884088914219. 6.45x9.5x0.662 inches. German.

Die groe konzertante Geste und das selbstvergessene, um auere Wirkungen unbekummerte Spiel, die unheimliche Nachtseite der Romantik und das hausliche Gluck im stillen Winkel - der spate Schumann bietet widerspruchliche Perspektiven und extreme, zuweilen experimentelle Antworten auf Fragen seiner Zeit und seiner kunstlerischen Existenz. Einen auffalligen Schwerpunkt im Schaffen der Jahre ab 1850 bilden Kompositionen fur Streichinstrumente - Konzerte, Kammermusik, Bearbeitungen. Der spate Schumann entdeckt die Farbe der Streicher gewissermaen neu, unbekummert um spielerische Konventionen und gattungsasthetische Erwartungen. Die Autoren dieses Bandes unternehmen eine Annaherung an dieses so faszinierende wie ratselhafte Werk, das infolge von Schumanns Erkrankung in Teilen zunachst nur zogerlich oder gar nicht veroffentlicht wurde. Thematisiert werden auerdem Fragen der Interpretation und der Schumann-Rezeption im 20. Jahrhundert.

SKU: AY.CM3155PM

ISBN 9790543572713.

SKU: HH.HH279-FSP

ISBN 9790708092292.

A mysterious quality lies at the heart of Timothy Raymond's acclaimed String Quartet, first performed in 2007. Niggling motifs emerge from a dreamlike continuum of harmonic glissandos, sparking a succession of adventurous and unpredictable developments that are by turn tentative, unsettling, determined, energetic, emphatic, furious and lyrical, and characterized by highly varied, idiomatic string writing. The piece pursues a latter day expressionist path towards, and away from, a sustained and intimately poised centre, the whole reflecting the composer's own colourful synthesis, distillation and development of contemporary composition.