Ian Venables' The Song Of The Severn is a cycle of songs in celebration of Worcestershire scored for Baritone Voice String Quartet and Piano. “The Song of the Severn…clothes poems by Masefield Housman John Drinkwater and Philip Worner in sharply memorable music of bewitching lyricism idiomatic grace and rapt instinct…No lover of the early-20th-century English art song or pastoral tradition should fail to investigate this notable issue.” - Andrew Achenbach Gramophone “These five songs for voice with piano and string quartet accompaniment take the Severn Riverand its historical and natural associations as a common theme. They are absolutely stunning in their poignant beauty their profoundly noble and moving sense of tragedy and desolation that never turns sentimental or lachrymose and their perfect union of text and music to a level that rivals Schubert and Mahler.” - James A. Altena Fanfare Magazine

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement. Duration: c. 13' This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized). American-Finnish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality. His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

For unison children's voices and strings (or with Piano).Published in 1994.Six poems of Jessica George (1984-94)First performance by Jessica's friends St Olave's Church York on 22nd October1994.String Quartet Parts.

für Stimme und Streichquartett. Par PLATZ ROBERT H.P.. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes et Voix

for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. 'The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets' wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: 'The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting too narrow for me. In composing now I often hear a lot of things that I can barely suggest. For instance, it is remarkable how I invent almost everything canonically and never discover the imitating voices until afterward, very often in inversions, inverted rhythms.' The new urtext edition is based on the text of the Schumann Complete Edition./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Cette pièce de musique de chambre, composée en 1907-1908, marque une rupture non seulement dans l??uvre de Schönberg, mais aussi plus largement dans l?histoire moderne de la musique. Le système tonal majeur/mineur qui s?imposait depuis des siècles est, au fil des quatre mouvements, abandonné de manière toujours plus sensible au profit d?une atonalité libre. Cette rupture avec la tradition musico-historique va de pair avec un autre coup porté aux conventions: Schönberg introduit dans les deux derniers mouvements une voix de soprano pour mettre en musique deux poèmes de Stefan George. Avec la transition vers l?atonalité, Schönberg ouvre la voie à un nouveau langage musical, qui aboutira peu de temps après au dodécaphonisme. Pas de doute: son Second quatuor à cordes a marqué le cours de l?histoire de la musique. La nouvelle édition Henle a été réalisée par Ullrich Scheideler, spécialiste de Schönberg, sur la base des recherches les plus récentes. La partition Urtext Henle présente ce «classique de la modernité» dans une nouvelle gravure, très généreusement mise en page. / Date parution : 2022-06-14/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano