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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Johannes Brahms: Complete String Quartets: String Quartet: Parts
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Set of parts for Johannes Brahms's Complete String Quartets. Includes the works...
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Set of parts for Johannes Brahms's Complete String Quartets. Includes the works String Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 and String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major Op. 67.
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Johannes Brahms: Streichquartett Op.51: String Quartet: Study Score
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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String Quartets in c minor and a minor op. 51-Brahms had already composed over 2...
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String Quartets in c minor and a minor op. 51-Brahms had already composed over 20 String quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that ?stuff?) before he finally presented his Opus 51 to the public. In the end only threesurviving works managed to withstand his high self-criticism; numerous layers of corrections bear witness to his struggle with each detail. We are now publishing the two passionate dark Quartets Op. 51 separatelyfrom the rather more lively Opus 67. The basis for this edition is the volume in the New Complete Edition of Brahms? works published in 2004 by Henle for which previously missing sources in a Swiss bequest wereconsulted for the first time.
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Johannes Brahms: Streichquartett Op.67: String Quartet: Study Score
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Urtext Edition-Brahms had already composed over 20 String quartets (he confessed...
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Urtext Edition-Brahms had already composed over 20 String quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that ?stuff?) before he finally presented his Opus 51 to the public. In the end only three surviving works managedto withstand his high self-criticism; numerous layers of corrections bear witness to his struggle with each detail. We are now publishing the two passionate dark Quartets Op. 51 separately from the rather more lively Opus67. The basis for this edition is the volume in the New Complete Edition of Brahms? works published in 2004 by Henle for which previously missing sources in a Swiss bequest were consulted for the firsttime.
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Johannes Brahms: String Quartet In B Flat Op.67: String Quartet: Instrumental
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Authoriative and scholarly Henle Verlag Urtext edition of Johannes Brahms' Strin...
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Authoriative and scholarly Henle Verlag Urtext edition of Johannes Brahms' String Quartet In B Flat Op.67 edited by Salome Reiser.
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Brahms J. - String Quartets In C Minor And A Minor Op. 51
String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Compositeur : Brahms, Johannes Instrumentation : String quartet Editeur Musicologique : Reiser, Salome Couverture Reliée Contenu : String Quartets in c minor and a minor op. 51
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissione...
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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
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