Bearbeitung für Streichquartett-This piece reflects Janácek?s memories of childhood and youth in his native Hukvaldy and the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. Kry?tof Maratka a Czech composer resident in France and a great admirer of Janácek has arranged the original version to produce a welcome addition to the string quartet repertoire.Youth for wind sextet is a masterpiece from Janácek?s late period (1924). Maratka has successfully managed to transform the concise winds? sound that give this work its unique flavour into the timbre of the strings thereby creating a ?third string quartet? of the composer.- Janácek?s wind sextet arranged for string quartet- Welcome addition to thestring quartet repertoire- Foreword by the arranger (Cz/Eng/Ger)- Set of parts (BA11543) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP521) available for sale

Juliana Hodkinson's Is There Something You Can Tell Us for String Quartet.This ten minute piece was written for the Anima Quartet and was comissioned by SWR (South-West German Radio) for first performance at Theaterhaus Stuttgart on 7th June 2014 during the festival 'Lost & Found - Stimme. Text. Szene.'.The quartet's title and the titles of the individual movements are taken from Cynthia Troup's libretto 'Turbulence'.I Degrees of freedomII Hidden by an almost perfect balanceIII We are taught that it is out of reachIV For the real earth we do not know yet