Le nouveau Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) est conçu comme une édition historico-critique des oeuvres recueillies. Ils seront soigneusement étudiés et préparés selon des techniques musicologiques et rédactionnelles actuelles et présentés dans leur intégralité. Brouillons, des croquis et des fragments, bref, tout ce qui est parvenu à nous comme étant authentiquement par Schumann et qui, dans la plupart des cas, a été délibérément préservé par lui, seront rassemblées, évalué quant à son importance et documentés dans une forme ou une autre, dans l'édition des oeuvres complètes.C'est le but de l'édition de reproduire des textes authentiques qui - après avoir corrigé copistes, copies et d'impression des erreurs et éradiquées ajouts et autres corruptions textuelles - aborderont aussi étroitement que possible l'intention des originaux.L'édition critique formeront la base du matériel de rendement précis pour le travail de Robert Schumann. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. String Quartet A Minor D 804 Op. 29 'Rosamunde'. String Quartet C Minor D 703 'Quartett-Satz' and fragment of the second movement. Study score. Also available set of parts BA5614. The New Schubert Edition is a scholarly-critical complete edition reflecting current knowledge of the sources and the latest research findings. It is thus indispensable for the study and authentic performance of Schubert 's music./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave the way to the great symphony? in spring 1824. At the same time he was paving his way to a wider audience, as the 'Rosamunde? Quartet was the first and only string quartet that was not only publicly performed in Schubert's lifetime but also published in parts. It is fortunate for us that this was the case because the autograph of this much-loved quartet is missing today and the only source for the work is the first edition. And this is precisely where the challenge lies, as the parts exhibit some inaccuracies regarding the articulation and dynamics. They have had to be carefully resolved, something which our new Urtext edition has done in an exemplary fashion. Its name can be traced back to Schubert's incidental music to the play Rosamunde, which can be heard at the beginning of the Andante. Quite a few people might, however, be reminded of the Impromptu in B flat major op. post. 142 #3, in which Schubert later once again took up the beautiful melody. / 2 Violons, Alto Et Violoncelle

Mädchen' - 'Death and the Maiden' . Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. String Quartet D Minor D 810 'Death and the Maiden'. Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello. Study score, Urtext edition, 22, 5 x 16, 5 cm. - Set of parts BA5613. / Classique / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Au cours d'une période de 50 ans, Haydn a composé plus de 80 quatuors à cordes mettant en vedette une gamme et la variété de l'invention structurelle dépassé que par les oeuvres de Beethoven. Dans ce volume, la maîtrise du compositeur de la forme est frappante, en particulier dans les six populaires et bien-enregistré 'Quatuors prussiens.'Les grandes têtes de notes lisibles, de larges marges pour les notations, papier opaque et contraignantes permanentes en font un ajout fondamental aux bibliothèques musicales et des répertoires des musiciens.Réimpression de Ernst Eulenburg, Londres, n.d. édition. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par SENFTER JOHANNA. The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leipzig, first privately, then in his composition class at the conservatoire and valued her 'extraordinary compositional talent'. The strict teacher more and more became a committed promoter of the works by Johanna Senfter. For a period of 50 years, the composer concerned herself with the string quartet genre, from Quartet No. 1 in D minor Op. 4, composed shortly after the turn of the century, to the sixth and last Quartet in C minor Op. 115 which was performed for the first time in 1960, one year before her death. The Quartet in F sharp minor Op. 28 is her second quartet which was premiered in Darmstadt on 5 November 1922. In this work, as in later works, Senfter combined traditional form models – here Baroque movements like gavotte, saraband, gigue – with expressive, late Romantic musical language. The work, consisting of six short movements, may without doubt be regarded as a valuable addition to the quartet repertoire./ Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Volume One Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op.18, No. 1 Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op.18, No. 2 Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op.18, No. 3 Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op.18, No. 4 Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op.18, No. 5 Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op.18, No. 6 Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 Volume Two Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74 Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130 Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 Grosse Fuge in B-flat Major, Op. 133

Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music. My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach’s D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern. My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

QUINTET in C Major for 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Violoncellos, Op. 163 QUARTETS for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello N°1 N°2 in C Major N°3 in B-flat Major N°4 in C Major N°5 in B-flat Major N°6 in D Major N°7 in D Major N°8 in B-flat Major, Op. 168 N°9 in G Minor N°10 in E-flat Major, Op. 125 No. 1 N°11 in E Major, Op. 125 No. 2 N°12 (Quartett-Satz) in C Minor N°13 in A Minor, Op. 29 N°14 in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) N°15 in G Major, Op. 161 TRIOS for Violin, Viola and Violoncello In B-flat Major In B-flat Major

No. 1 d minor op. 77 and No. 2 A mejor op. 90. Par RAFF JOSEPH JOACHIM. He had been there as Franz Liszt?s assistant since 1850 and had made a name for himself in the city?s art scene now he embarked on new paths. He already composed his second Quartet in A major, op. 90, in Wiesbaden, the spa town that was to become his home for 21 years. The two quartets are unequivocal works: orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern. They confidently continue the Beethoven tradition and attest at the same time to Raff?s intensive confrontation with Richard Wagner?s music during the Weimar years. In his chamber music, the composer wanted to achieve progress ?in an inherently historical way? and ?toground the individual substance in existing forms,? as he told the Viennese violinist Josef Hellmesberger, who launched opus 77. The quartets, first published in 1860/62, found illustrious interpreters, among them, the Müller brothers? renowned ensemble, to which opus 90 was also dedicated, and Joseph Joachim. / Date parution : 2021-11-25/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Quand Smetana, en 1876, termine son Quatuor en mi mineur sous des couleurs tristes et sombres, il est déjà atteint par la surdité. Quel musicien ne connaît pas ce passage fatidique du 4e mouvement, où Smetana symbolise par une note ultra-aiguë au violon le début de sa maladie? Les mouvements précédents sont consacrés aux stations plus heureuses de sa vie - la préface de notre édition cite un passage détaillé d'une lettre consacré à ce sujet. Smetana, qui à l'époque avait reçu de son éditeur des honoraires ridicules pour son quatuor, ne pouvait pas prévoir que cette oeuvre compterait un jour au rang des quatuors à cordes les plus célèbres. / Quatuor A Cordes

26 Easy Pieces from 4 Centuries. Les pièces, qui conviennent non seulement aux jeunes, mais également aux adultes débutants, sont adaptées, dans leur diversité stylistique, aussi bien pour des concerts que pour des représentations dans un cadre sacré. Alors que certaines des pièces ont été composées par les compositeurs pour l'écriture pour cordes à quatre voix, l'éditeur utilise également des oeuvres pour piano qu'il a arrangées - aussi proches que possible de l'original - pour quatuor à cordes. / Niveau : 2 / Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes