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

Par TROJAHN MANFRED. Seit längerem setzt sich Manfred Trojahn kompositorisch mit Texten auseinander, die „das Scheitern des Künstlers aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven' reflektieren. Vor allem „Le Ceneri di Gramsci' von Pier Paolo Pasolini und „Ein Brief' von Hugo von Hofmannsthal bilden den geistigen, die gleichnamigen Kompositionen Trojahns den ästhetischen und klangsprachlichen Hintergrund des V. Streichquartetts. Es wurde für das Kuss Quartett geschrieben. In drei Sätzen komponierte Trojahn eine expressive Musik mit zum Teil schroffen Kontrasten, in der sich polyphone und blockartige Strukturen gegenüberstehen und ein dichtes, vom Hörer nachvollziehbares Netz motivischer Verbindungen geschaffenwird./ Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Volume 1. Par LABROUSSE-BAERT SARAH. 1 - Gavotte de la Suite No. 3 en Ré Majeur - J. S. Bach - 2 - Rinaldo - Air d'Almirena, Lascia ch'io pianga - G. F. Haendel - 3 - Air de la Suite No. 3 en Ré Majeur - J. S. Bach - 4 - Serenade D. 957 No. 4 - Leise flehen meine Lieder - F. Schubert - 5 - Menuet No. 1 WoO 10 - L. v. Beethoven - 6 - Menuet No. 2 WoO 10 - L. v. Beethoven - 7 - Menuet No. 3 WoO 10 - L. v. Beethoven - Formation : Musique de Chambre, Quatuor - Instrumentation :Quatuor à Cordes : 2 Violons 1 Alto 1 Violoncelle - Niveau de Difficulté : 3/6 - Intermédiaire - Durée : 19 mn 00 s - Style Musical : Classique - Catégorie : Arrangement - Compositeur : Sarah LABROUSSE-BAERT - / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classique / Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle