SKU: HL.14023668
ISBN 9780711932975. 9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.
String Quartet No.3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins, for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian, Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed, quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.
SKU: SU.90880090
2 Violins, Viola, Cello Duration: 15' 1. Allegro; 2. Folk Fragments; 3. Chorale and Ostinato; 4. Appalachian Strings Set of Parts: available for sale: (#90880091) Composed: 2005 Published by: Subito Music Publishing.
SKU: HL.49009707
ISBN 9790200201895. UPC: 884088018849. 5.25x7.5x0.084 inches.
With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
SKU: HL.49009699
ISBN 9790200201888. UPC: 073999367379. 5.25x7.5x0.068 inches.
SKU: HL.49009679
ISBN 9783795771140. UPC: 073999366884. 5.25x7.5x0.105 inches.
SKU: HL.49009691
ISBN 9790200201871. UPC: 884088018832. 5.25x7.5x0.066 inches.
SKU: BP.2256B
Printed Score and Parts for full orchestra for The Invitation (movement I of Divine Encounter). Instrumentation for complete Divine Encounter full orchestration: -Fl (1), Ob (1), Bb Cl (2), Bsn (2)-F Hn (2), Bb Tpt (2) (mvmts 1-2 only), Tbn (2), B. Tbn., Tba (mvmts 1-2 only)-Percussion (1-2 players: Cr. Cym, Sus. Cym, Timpani) (mvmts 1-2 only)-Harp (mvmts 1 and 3 only) -StringsOrgan part (in choral score) or piano part (available separately) are compatible with full orchestration if harp is not available.
SKU: HL.49033270
ISBN 9790001136860. 9.25x12.0x0.3 inches.
The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jorg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the performers, the piece starts by quoting Robert Schumann's Papillons op. 2, and for its full duration retains this gesture, these starting sounds. The degrees of recognizability do change continuously, to be sure, in the furious, racing organism of the score. The contours change into forms on another level, yet now and then the begining material returns clearly to the fore, initiated anew by a cry from the performers, and is then digested or mutated as a rhythmic study into a field of harmonic experimentation. On rare occasions, there are moments of pause - as though the musicians were testing the atmosphere, as though they were sensing the weather, so as ultimately to continue playing the quartet across the fields an forests of notes. A hunt after joyful performance, a chase, the whip cracking, after the thing to be shot, the sound, its performer, perhaps the composer himself? - A last shout, morendo, dal niente... - The victim is not the audience, at any rate.When comparing the output of string quartets from the 18th century to thetime of Schumann, it appears to have dropped considerably. Schumann composed only three complete quartets, all of them in the so-called 'chamber music year' 1842. Jorg Widmann, who counts Robert Schumann among his greatest inspirations, finished a series of five string quartets in 2005, at the same age as Schumann. The quartets in the cycle form in themselves the characters of the movements of the classical quartet. Jagdquartett represents the fast middle movement, the scherzo. Widmann's work appears rough and wild in the style of Schumann's alter ego Florestan. His hunt begins in the tempo of 'allegro vivace assai' with the final theme of Schumann's Papillons which often appears or is cited in many of Schumann's compositions. Widmann eventually dismantles the thematic material of his fierce quartet, thus skeletonising his prey.
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