| Hugh Wood: String Quartet No.4 Op.34 (Score And Parts) String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Chester
String Quartet SKU: HL.14036341 Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales Americ...(+)
String Quartet SKU: HL.14036341 Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. Composed 2001. Chester Music #CH60931. Published by Chester Music (HL.14036341). ISBN 9780711955080. Commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the Chilingirian String Quartet. Quoting Wood: In my Second and Third Quartets I attempted sectional, agglutinative forms: in my Fourth I return to the conventional four movement form of my First Quartet of 1962. Both works build up (as in the 19th century symphony) to the Finale, thus making it the most substantial movement, which provides a climax to the work. The First Movement has, in both works, only the status of an Introduction. But there the consciously willed resemblances end. This Introduction follows the Second Quartet to a certain extent, in that it provides a sort of 'cauldron', from which elements to be used later can all be plucked. Its opening will reappear at various points throughout the work, most completely at a climatic point of the Finale (bar 110). Subsequent material will be more fully worked out in the second movement, a large Scherzo. The Introduction concludes with an unusually placed violin cadenza (itself a rare feature in a string quartet, the idea lifted from Elliott Carter's First Quartet) of which the opening is to reappear halfway through the Finale. The Scherzo (which follows attacca) does not have at its centre a discretely characterized Trio: a figure in double-stops like a distant fanfare supplies the necessary contrast of a second idea. The Slow Movement has a secondary idea first heard on the cello and marked appassionato: an agitato middle section recalls the opening of the work, but in a formulation which will be found closely to anticipate its reappearance in the Finale. The Finale is planned on a broad scale. Only after a fully worked exposition of both primary and secondary material does the opening of the whole work return, now in a greatly extended form. Then, at bar 140, the tune of the violin cadenza is first harmonized in fanfare style on the upper instruments, then presented as a chorale on the lower ones, with a rushing semiquaver accompaniment above. This climatic activity mounts to the very end. The work is dedicated to the Chilingirian Quartet, old friends over many years. Score available separately: SOS04044. $83.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vista...(+)
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vistas. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 42 + 112 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40698. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114406980). UPC: 680160010806. Shulamit Ran’s second string quartet, subtitled “Vistas,†occupies a large canvas that is cast in a traditional fourmovement mold, where the outer movements present, explore, and later return to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and scherzo-type third movement with a trio. In addition to tempo-based titles, the individual movements have subtitles that are evocative of each movement’s character, as follows: I. Concentric: from the inside out II. Stasis III. Flashes IV. Vistas. My second string quartet, “Vistasâ€, is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement.While the four movements’ “proper†names -- Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione; Maestoso e grande – give some indication of the general character of the individual movements, I have also subtitled, less formally, each movement as follows: 1) Concentric: from the inside out 2) Stasis 3) Flashes 4) Vista. The images evoked by these titles tell one, I think, a bit more about the inner workings of the quartet.In the first movement, a prominently presented opening pitch (E) reveals itself, as the movement unfolds, to be a center of gravity from which ever-growing cycles of activity gradually evolve. While various important themes come into being as the movement progresses, their impact on the listener has, I believe, a great deal to do with their juxtaposition and relationship to the initial central point of gravity.Stasis is, as the name implies, a movement where activity seems, at times, almost suspended. Being also, as Webster’s Dictionary reminds us, “a state of static balance and equilibrium among opposing tendencies or forces,†it develops various materials, including ones from the first movement, without bringing them to points of resolution.Flashes is short and very fast, evoking in my mind the quick shimmer of fireflies, a “sudden burst of lightâ€, but also a “brief timeâ€. Perhaps, even, a “smileâ€?Finally, the last movement, Vista, is not only “a view or outlookâ€, but also “a comprehensive mental view of a series of remembered or anticipated events.â€Â After a brief recall of the opening of the second movement, this movement brings back all the important themes of the first movement in their original order. But just as going back can never really mean going back in time, the movement is much more than recapitulatory. By cutting through previously transitory passages and presenting the main ideas in a fashion more direct yet more evolved, it also sheds new light on earlier events, offering a retrospective, synoptic view of the first movement as it brings to culmination the work as a whole. “Vistas†was commissioned by C. Geraldine Freund for the Taneyev String Quartet of what was then Leningrad. It was the first commission given in this country to a Soviet chamber ensemble since the 1985 cultural exchange accord between the Soviet Union and the United States. $285.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Bach-Shards String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441345S Prelude to Contrapunctu...(+)
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11441345S Prelude to Contrapunctus X from the Art of the Fugue. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Full score. With Standard notation. Duration 4 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41345S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441345S). UPC: 680160608829. 8.5 x 11 inches. BACH-SHARDS was commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet as part of their Art of the Fugue companion-piece project. Ran deliberately stays within the realm of Bach-like vocabulary, altering syntax in ways that add up to something slightly different from the anticipated sum of the parts. The work builds up to a climax that makes the entry point into Bach’s Contrapunctus X seem thoroughly natural. While composing Bach-Shards I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal. First, though the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I opted not to stray outside the realm of Bach-like materials and harmonic language. Instead, it was my hope to alter their relationships and context in ways that add up to a something that’s slightly different than the anticipated sum of the parts. A mildly deconstructed Bach, if you will. The other important challenge I set for myself was building up the latter, toccata-like portion of Bach-Shards in a way that would make the entry point of the fugue which it precedes, Contrapunctus X, seem thoroughly natural. It was my intent to have the first fugal entrance feel like a huge and much welcome release of the energy created by my Prelude’s penultimate stretch, with its bravura figurations elaborating on an insistent dominant pedal point. $14.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| in-side String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score] Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9402 Composed by Mochizuki. Chamber...(+)
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-9402 Composed by Mochizuki. Chamber music. Edition Breitkopf. Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Full score. Composed 2020. Duration 7'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9402. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9402). ISBN 9790004188767. 0 x 0 inches. <> est la quatrieme piece (ou le quatrieme mouvement) de mon cycle <> pour quatuor a cordes, base sur les recherches recentes concernant le fonctionnement du cerveau. La piece s'inspire egalement de l'interpretation de la genese du monde telle qu'abordee dans les anciens livres japonais, ou la premiere divinite creee une deuxieme entite pensee comme un <>. C'est a partir de l'harmonie de ces deux etres que naitront par la suite les nombreux esprits lies a la cosmogonie japonaise. J'ai repris cette image dans ma piece, ou une sorte de note contenue dans l'ostinato percussif du violoncelle (<>) sera revelee progressivement par une note tiree et vibree au second violon. Cette vibration, qui s'accentue dans le discours devient a la fois une <> reprise par l'alto et des glissandi joues au premier violon. D'apres certaines etudes, le rythme et la melodie ne stimulent pas les memes zones du cerveau, cette construction permet ainsi l'emergence d'une communaute de quatre differentes personnalites qui s'observent les unes les autres ; elles arrivent a imaginer, a anticiper et meme a participer a la realisation des comportements des autres, par un processus propre au fonctionnement du cerveau nomme <>. (Misato Mochizuki, 2000)
World premiere: Luxembourg, Philharmonie, October 12, 2020 (Aris-Quartett) Commissioned by the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) for the Rising Stars-Project. $18.95 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
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