SKU: HL.49004036

ISBN 9790001040785. 8.25x11.75x0.262 inches.

Inhaltliche Tiefe, uberschaumende Lebendigkeit und Raffinesse der Kompositionstechnik' - lobt Samuel Rhodes, der Bratschist des renommierten Juilliard String Quartet, Paul Hindemiths Streichquartette. Der Komponist entwarf das Quartett op. 10 1918 an der Front im Elsass, und doch zeigt es nicht den kleinsten Einfluss der schrecklichen Kriegsereignisse. Das dreisatzige Werk ist voll jugendlichen Uberschwangs und spiegelt Hindemiths neue Kompositionstechniken wider. Seine Meisterschaft und Fantasie im Gebrauch der Instrumente beweisen, dass er mit der Gattung Streichquartett schon vollig vertraut war.

SKU: M7.DOHR-26346

ISBN 9790202013465.

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.