| String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Fennica Gehrman
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-574-3. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3). ISBN 9790550115743. Kalevi Aho (b.1949) was only 18 years old when he completed his String Quartet no. 1 in g minor (1967). Nonetheless it was already the second one of its kind: the earlier string quartet in a minor got christened String Quartet No. 0 and banned from performing. The g minor quartet was heard the first time only 50 years after it was born, when the Kamus Quartet premiered it at the Musica Kalevi Aho Festival in Forssa on June 28, 2019. In Aho's home town, Forssa, it was not possible to study composition with a teacher: My model in this and the other works I composed while I was at school was all the mostly tonal music I had personally played on the violin or heard on the radio. The first movement, Moderato, begins in variation form, until followed by a fugue based on the variation theme. The initially lyrical second movement has a quick, virtuosic and light middle section. The third movement is a very quick scherzo that becomes dramatic, and the work ends with a chorale-like finale. The composer tells: When I got to study composition at the Sibelius Academy in autumn 1968 and showed the quartet to my teacher, Einojuhani Rautavaara, he said there was no point my studying tonal harmony and tonal formal constructions any longer; that I could do the exams in them straight away and start the courses in modern music resources there and then.. $60.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144402180 After Zurbarán. ...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144402180 After Zurbarán. Composed by James Primosch. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Merion Music #144-40218. Published by Merion Music (PR.144402180). UPC: 680160027156. 9.5 x 13 inches. The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary... $75.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440218S After Zurbarán. ...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440218S After Zurbarán. Composed by James Primosch. Full score. With Standard notation. Duration 18 minutes. Merion Music #144-40218S. Published by Merion Music (PR.14440218S). UPC: 680160027170. 9.5 x 13 inches. The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary... $32.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Chester
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14043597 Score. Composed by Brian E...(+)
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.14043597 Score. Composed by Brian Elias. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Score. 46 pages. Chester Music #CH81103. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043597). 8.25x12.0x0.166 inches. String Quartet Was Composed By Mumbai-Born Brian Elias In 2012, And Was Commissioned By The Jerusalem String Quartet. Lasting Around 20 Minutes, This Is The Full Score Of The Work Arranged For Violin I, Violin Ii, Viola And Cello. The Work Has Been Laid Out In The Conventional Four Movements, Allegro, Adagio, Presto, Adagio-Allegro-Adagio, But It Is Essentially A Work In A Single Movement To Be Performed With No Breaks. A Set Of Double Variations Generates The Thematic And Harmonic Material For The Entire Piece In Its First Few Bars, With A Brilliant Viola Solo Afterwards. Throughout The Piece, Changes In Dynamics And Tempo Characterise The Different Movements, Before Finally EndingWith A Calming Return To The Slow Music.&Nbsp; You Can Purchase The Individual Instrument&Nbsp; Parts Here. $27.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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