Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sorensen (1988) Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 16 November 1988. Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angels Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angels Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part ofthe piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angels Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'

With a Critical Commentary in English - for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. By Felix Mendelssohn. Edited by E. Herttrich. String Quartets. Pages: Vl I Part = 35 * Vl II Part = 24 * Va Part = 25 * Vc Part = 21. Urtext edition without fingering-paper bound. Published by G. Henle.

For 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by G. Feder, S. Gerlach. String Quartets. Pages: Vl I Part = 39 * Vl II Part = 35 * Va Part = 35 * Vc Part = 31. Urtext edition without fingering-paper bound. Published by G. Henle.

For 2 Violins, Viola and Basso (Violoncello). By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by G. Feder. String Quartets. Pages: Vl I Part = 35 * Vl II Part = 27 * Va Part = 27 * Basso Part = 27. Urtext edition without fingering-paper bound. Published by G. Henle.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.144406520

For String Quartet. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Paul Salerni. Romantic. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2014. 12+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40652. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144406520).

UPC: 680160633982. 9 x 12 inches.

Salerni, whose recent works include two one-act operas (Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast and The Life and Love of Joe Coogan), turns to the piano works of Mendelssohn and fashions four beautiful string quartet arrangements. While Consolations is lush and languid, Hunting-Song and Unrest will require a tight rhythmic control. Includes Consolation, Op. 30, No. 3; Hunting-Song, Op. 19, No. 3; Venetian Boat-Song No. 1, Op. 19, No. 6; Unrest, Op. 30, No. 2.