Dans le volume des quatuors facile, en plus de mouvements indépendants un certain nombre de travaux peut être trouvé qui peut être effectuée en même temps aux suites de la forme. Ainsi, de petits mouvements qui peuvent également être utilisés séparément cycles peuvent être formés qui peuvent animer un petit concert domestique, une manifestation de l'instrument ou le programme d'un spectacle pour une occasion festive. outre des séquences de danses Renaissance, arrangements de chorals de Bach, des oeuvres chorales et danses classiques, le contenu varié comprend aussi des mouvements romantiques appropriés pour agréable musique de décision nationale. volumes de cette nouvelle série contient des duos, trios et quatuors, de leur degré de difficulté allant de facile à travers intermédiaire à avancé. Chaque pièce est une transcription ou un arrangement, puisque dans l'édition des volumes notre principale préoccupation était d'offrir une collection de compositions intéressantes et utiles, comme librement variables que possible en ce qui concerne l'instrumentation, pour les élèves des écoles de musique et aussi pour les adultes qui font de la musique pour leur propre plaisir. L'étendue et la hauteur des pièces permettent les travaux devant être réalisés sur n'importe quelle combinaison des instruments donnés nécessaire ou possible. / Ensemble Mixte

Into the faded air was commissioned by Britten Sinfonia for first performance at Filharmonic Hall Krakow Poland on Sunday 13th January 2008 with Jacqueline Shave (Violin) Miranda Dale (Violin) Clare Finnimore(Viola) Catherine Musker (Viola) Caroline Dearnley (Cello) and Banjamin Chappell (Cello).Scoring: String Sextet (2 Violins 2 Violas and 2 Cellos)Duration: 10 minutes Composer'sNotes 'Into The Faded Air is cast in four movements although the last three movements are played without a break.In the first movement the sextet is divided into twogroups. The first group consisting of violin viola and cello plays a sustained melody while the second group (also violin viola and cello) contributes more jagged and intricate material. The second movement is an extended duetfor two violas accompanied by the other instruments. As the movement progresses the accompanying instruments become more prominent. The third movement is the only fast movement in the piece with rapid semiquavers and much useof pizzicato throughout. This leads into a serene chorale where the three upper instruments (two violins and first viola) are set against the second viola and two cellos.' - HelenGrime

Score available: KP30120 The composer writes:The slow choral-like music which initiates 'Adieu' was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why I imagined a procession of people maybe medieval munks wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi a kind of 'farewell glissandi' which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures inthe first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and 'final' glissando is intense and agitating and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again.

John Luther Adams' Everything That Rises for String Quartet. Composers note: I never imagined I would write a string quartet. Then I heard the JACK Quartet and I understood how Imight be able to make the medium my own. The result was The Wind in High Places - a twenty-minute work composed entirely on natural harmonics and open strings. Over the next few years twomore quartets followed. The second quartet  untouched  is a further exploration of the aeolian sound world of the first. Then in Canticles of the Sky the musicians finally touch the fingerboards of theirinstruments. And now comes Everything That Rises. This fourth quartet is more expansive both in time and in space. It grows out of Sila: The Breath of the World - aperformance-length choral/orchestral work composed on a rising series of sixteen harmonic clouds. Everything That Rises traverses this same territory but in a much more melodic way. Each musician isa soloist playing throughout. They surround the audience. Time floats. Over the course of an hour the lines spin out - always rising - in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiralupward... until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows sighing. Duration: 60 minutes

Accompaniment for String Quartet and Piano-Based on a chorale motif from the last movement of his Sunrise Mass Ola Gjeilo has developed the beautiful melody into a free-standing anthem. Score and parts for the optional String Quartet or Ensemble. Duration: ca. 3:30. Contains: FULL SCORE VIOLIN VIOLIN VIOLA VIOLONCELLO PIANO