String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-497-5

Composed by Kimmo Hakola. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-497-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-497-5).

ISBN 9790550114975.

Kimmo Hakola's String Quartet No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Finland and it's dedicated to the Meta4 Quartet. In composer's words, it is the floundering, playful, if necessary defiantly dramatic, surprising, capricious and unrestrained tour de force of a youthful entity.Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging 'sound and fury' and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.

String Quartet - advanced

SKU: HL.49033197

Score and Parts. Composed by Paul Dessau. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Score and Parts. Composed 1957. 28 pages. Duration 7'. Schott Music #ED9617. Published by Schott Music (HL.49033197).

ISBN 9790001134897. UPC: 884088075477. 8.25x11.75x0.071 inches.

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was still working on music begun in collaboration with the poet, while on the other hand Dessau was trying to work towards a socially oriented musical aesthetic, which led him to compose songs for political purposes. Even this Quartet movement does not owe its inspiration purely to an artistic vision. In spite of its technical demands, the piece is intended to be comprehensible and could even be played by an amateur ensemble in its cleverly reduced form. Only discovered after the composer's death, the Movement for String Quartet is published for the first time in this edition.

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.48024542

Score. Composed by Johannes Boris Borowski. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 16 pages. Duration 720 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202534915. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024542).

ISBN 9783793141884. 9.0x12.0x0.053 inches.

In this piece, commissioned by the WDR and premiered by the Quatuor Diotima in Witten in 2016, Johannes Boris Borowski shows that, to him, the string quartet genre is a rewarding field of experimentation despite any past history: A separate architecture emerges from the contrasting of noise and sound-oriented music, an architecture which causes either rather active or rather passive listening, depending on the music's consistency. The composer got his extra-musical inspiration from Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamasov': Its hypnotic detailed drama, the rhythmic change in narrative perspective and the interconnection of crime, development and romantic novel creates a similar audience expectation.

String Quartet

SKU: AY.PCMP102

Composed by Sonny Burnette. Ensembles - Chamber Music. Pine Castle Music Publishing #PCMP102. Published by Pine Castle Music Publishing (AY.PCMP102).

ISBN 9790302118770.

Gershwin... Lost in Tunisia is a jazz-oriented composition that makes use of exotic scale patterns as well as Gershwinian blues motifs. Vacillating between the two genres, the piece attempts to meld them into a unique stylistic composite.