This single-movement for String quartet employs some of the more familiar elements of Herrmannâ??s compositional style: short musical phrases repeated and then repeated again in other positions sharp use of dynamics among them. It is a fascinating sidelight into the work of one of the 20th centuryâ??s most brilliant composers.Bernard Herrmann was among the greatest of all composers of music for cinema and there are many who avow that he was the greatest of all. A very short list of the films for which this award-winning composer created soundtracks includes Citizen Kane The Man Who Knew Too Much Vertigo Jason and Argonauts Fahrenheit 451 Obsession and Taxi Driver. He had along and fertile association with Alfred Hitchcock during the most productive period of Hitchcockâ??s career and with Orson Welles from the time of the Mercury Theatre on the Air. In addition to his conducting and composing work for the entertainment world Herrmann wrote concert pieces including a symphony opera and cantata.

Bien qu?ils ne constituent pas une unit? ferm?e du point de vue stylistique les cinq quatuors ? cordes de Beethoven r?unis dans ce volume sont g?n?ralement appel?s ?quatuors du milieu?. Plus de trois ans s?parent la composition des trois quatuors op. 59 (1806) et celle du quatuor op. 74 (1809/10). Les quatuors op. 59 contiennent quelques th?mes issus de chansons populaires russes ? un hommage au prince Razoumovski qui en ?tait le commanditaire ? qui leur valent ?galement l?appellation de ?quatuors russes?. Le quatuor suivant op. 74 en Mi b?mol majeur a lui aussi un surnom: en raison de quelques longs passages en pizzicato dans le premier mouvement il est souvent appel? ?quatuordes harpes?. Enfin le manuscrit autographe du quatuor en fa mineur op. 95 le d?signe comme ?quatuor serioso?. Tous ces quatuors sont des chefs-d??uvre de la maturit? du compositeur d?une grande com-plexit? technique et d?interpr?tation.

for String Quartet. Par ORFF CARL. Like the Quartettsatz of 1914 (ED 7816), Quartettsatz in c-Moll of 1921, premièred by the Henschel Quartet at the Orff Centre in Munich in 2007, testifies to Orff’s early struggles towards the classical-Romantic tradition. Originally left unfinished as a fragment in C sharp minor, the first version has now been reconstructed (in C minor) from a source that only survived as a copy with autograph corrections. It is interesting to see a new tonal language appearing quite suddenly (and notated without bar lines in the first version) in the coda./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

The second of the Quartets commissioned by the Naxos label was completed in January 2003. This work swings between nervous virtuosic energy to the serene calm of an extended Lento with exotic harmonies reminiscent of Bartok andis characterised by it's sharp and unpredictable contrasts. First performed by the Maggini Quartet on 11 July 2003 at the Pittville Pump Room Cheltenham as part of the Cheltenham International Festival. This is the score ina pocket-size format. The set of parts is available catalogue number CH66594-01.

Prussian Quartet No.4 Edition : study score Instrumentation : string quartet Catalogue of works : Hob. III: 47 Number of Pages : 24 Arranger : Altmann, Wilhelm Series : Eulenburg Miniature Scores Scores