SKU: HL.48025395
UPC: 196288195474.
“In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me a lot about what Fair Trade stands for. This piece grew out of the many impressions of the stories of people growing coffee and sugar in harsh circumstances, transporting the produce on difficult roads. At the same time I wanted to give it a sense of optimism and hope. There are versions of it for Viola and Piano, Violin and Piano, as well as Piano solo. Version for string quartet composed 2007.†(Elena Kats-Chernin).
SKU: HL.48025396
UPC: 196288195481.
SKU: HL.48024349
9.0x12.0x0.44 inches.
Olga Neuwirth's string quartet, written in 2009, is a homage to the American artist Henry Darger and his only posthumously discovered, richly illustrated book manuscript of the same name. Neuwirth associates this overabundance of ideas with short, strikingly contrasting sentences in which fragile textures overlap. Neuwirth's third engagement with the genre string quartet was premiered in 2010 by the Arditti Quartet in Paris.
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SKU: HL.48025389
UPC: 196288195412.
'I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called “Zeche 2†in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena Kats-Chernin. Shortly afterwards, the composer herself arranged the original piano solo version for string quartet; this is the form in which the musically restrained piece is included onthe Acacia Quartet's complete recording of her music for this instrumentation.
SKU: HL.48025144
UPC: 196288096030.
Ukrainian Sketches, written in 1941, is the last surviving work by the Polish-Ukrainian composer Józef Koffler. Originally a follower of the Second Viennese School, Koffler, himself a professor and functionary in Soviet Ukraine, had to change his style in the face of enormous political pressure. Despite the harsh circumstances, these six miniatures for string quartet are free of all kitsch of 'socialist realism' and radiate an independent expressiveness and immediate lyricism in the interweaving of Eastern European folklore and the classical string quartet tradition.
SKU: HL.48024228
ISBN 9781540057310. UPC: 888680949266. 9x12 inches.
For Isang Yun, String Quartet No. 3 from 1959 marked the beginning of his European creative phase and of his official canon of works. Now it is possible to encounter Yun's early works from his Korean period in the form of his String Quartet No. 1 (1955). Three important 10-minute movements containing references not only to Asia but also to Ravel, Bartók and Eastern European folk musicand having an idiosyncratic structure: “Yun lines up forms and figures, makes them emerge from each other in a contrasting manner and assembles them into a mosaic-like whole, seeking for integration, laying down his material in layer upon layer and ending the movements with a rhythmic unison. [] Even then, he probably regarded a work of art as an energetic stream of sounds and as a reflection of a world whose diverging parts weave into a harmonic whole.” (Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer).
SKU: BT.SCHBB6501202
String Quartet (Study Score). Blacher, B.
SKU: BT.SCHBB6501282
String Quartet (Study Score). Burt, F.
SKU: BT.SCHBB1400383
String Quartet (Score & parts). Redel, Mc.
SKU: BT.SCHBB6501289
String Quartet (Study Score). Klebe, G.
SKU: BT.SCHBB1400387
String Quartet (Score & parts). Yun, I.
SKU: BT.SCHBB1400378
String Quartet (parts). Klebe, G.
SKU: BT.SCHBB1400415
String Quartet (Study Score). Redel, Mc.
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