SKU: HL.49008109
ISBN 9790001120678. UPC: 073999881493. 9.0x12.0x0.268 inches.
'Christmas * Peace on Earth' is the leading motive of the String Quartet, a tenet of faith as well as an expression of hope. In the first part of the work Vasks uses themes from a well-known Christmas carol, while the second part is strongly influenced by Latvian folksongs and dances. The third section, with a chromaticiscm strongly reminiscent of Shostakovitch, investigates and questions the feasibility of any peace in our society. The final, calm and slightly melancholy section symbolizes 'Peace on Earth' by means of sonorous sustained choirs.
SKU: BP.2149A
Full score and parts for violin I, II, viola and cello. Printed copy.
SKU: BP.2148A
SKU: HL.14043251
ISBN 9788759831380. English.
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 freedom II Hidden by an almost perfect balance III We are taught that it is out of reach IV For the real earth we do not know yet.
SKU: SU.19010120
Published by: Heart Earth Music.
SKU: PR.14440574S
UPC: 680160611935. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BT.WH31498
ISBN 9788759824603. English.
String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the Arditti Quartet. Programme note: The basic idea for my Fourth String Quartet was very clear to me: It should be quiet and soft music or to put it in a german term: hoch im Himmel gesungen ... (â€High singing in heaven…â€). Each of the four movements has a different scordatura/pitch. The first movement begins like my work â€Schnee†sky-high with an airy and soft melody by the first violin. The second movement is fast and â€movement and joyâ€-like. It consists of two duets and a reverse style counterpoint. While the sections were progressively longerin the first movement they are getting shorter and shorter in the second. â€Dark, heavy and earthy†is the third movement and its pizzicato recalls big black raindrops falling to the ground. It is the dark and grainy counterpart to the first movement whereas the fourth movement corresponds to the second. The fourth movement was planned as a dark and heavy counterpart but it turned out to be like â€babbling†music of a child. My Fourth String Quartet has become in its way a serene and cool piece. So the Quartet has been finished luckyly after twenty years it was already in 1990 that I was commissioned by Wittener Tage für Neue Musik to write the piece for Arditti Quartet. Hans Abrahamsen.
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