Par HYUNG-KI JOO RICHARD. Hyung-ki Joo composed his first string quartet for the graduation concert during his last term at the Yehudi Menuhin School in 1990. In it, he pays tribute to six different artists from music, painting and literature: Henry Purcell, Samuel Beckett, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edvard Munch, Johann Sebastian Bach and Arnold Schönberg. This edition is the set of parts. For the study score please click here: UE36966/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Arrgt: Eric Vireton. Par PURCELL HENRY. Formation : Musique de Chambre, Quatuor - Instrumentation :Quatuor à Cordes : 2 Violons 1 Alto 1 Violoncelle - Niveau de Difficulté : 3/6 - Intermédiaire - Durée : 1 mn 30 - Style Musical : Classique - Catégorie : Arrangement - Compositeur : Henry PURCELL - Arrangeur : Eric VIRETON / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classique / Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

This collection of Easy String Quartets includes 5 pieces suitable for players Grade 1-3. The pieces cover a wide range of musical periods and European styles from Baroque to Romantic from Italy to Austriaand England to give young players a broad spectrum while acquainting them with the basics of playing chamber music. The compositions included are: Allegretto Op. 72 No. 3 (Mendelssohn) Allegro Op. 72 No. 1(Mendelssohn) Chaconne (King Arthur) (Purcell) Ecossaise In B Minor (Schubert) and Gavotte In A (Martini). Arranged for 2 or 3 Violins Viola and Cello by Watson Forbes. Includes Parts Only.

Quoting Saxton: My Fantazia for String Quartet was complete in December 1993 in response to a commission from the London International String Quartet Competition for a test piece for the 1994 competition. Funds were provided bythe John S Cohen Foundation.The title gives the clue to the nature of the music: the viol fantasia was the chosen form of composition for the greatest English composers of the mid-seventeenth century Lawes Jenkins Ferraboscoin particular. They inherited the techniques of vocal polyphony from Byrd and Gibbons and forged a new instrumental polyphonic style. The culmination of this genre was reached in the magnificent works of Henry Purcell around1680 and it was Purcell who adopted the spelling ‘Fantazia’.I have always loved this music and when asked to write a short piece for strings I decided to pay tribute to this under-rated tradition. Most fantazias consistedof short joined sections and I have expanded this to create and eight-minute piece in three larger sections the essence being contrapuntal interplay and equality of part-writing. (Any idea of stylistic reference would be absurdion the late twentieth century). The first section is a lyrical allegro moderato which leads into a sustained and intense slow movement; this in turn gives way to a final quick section of a dancing character a featurefrequently encountered in Purcell’s own consort pieces.

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach would almost certainly have approved of this string quartet arrangement of his famous concerto for violin and oboe (BWV 1060) by John Cooley as he was well known for making arrangements of his own works, according to instrumental resources at his disposal. Bach himself made an arrangement of this piece for two solo harpsichords and string orchestra. It is quite ?notey? but straightforward and accessible technically to reasonably good players as there are no tricky rhythms or high notes. As well as this Bach concerto arrangement, SJ Music has also published John Cooley?s arrangements of Mozart?s piano duets K497 and K521 for piano trio and piano quartet respectively, Bach?s organ Passacaglia and Fugue for string quartet, and one of Purcell?s trio sonatas for string trio. / Date parution : 2022-03-16/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes