First violin, second violin, viola, cello (1. Violin, 2. Violin, Viola, Violoncello) - Level 3

SKU: BA.BA11543

Composed by Leos Janacek. Arranged by Kryštof Maratka. In a folder. Set of parts. 10/10/10/10 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11543_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA11543).

ISBN 9790260108509. 31 x 24.3 cm inches.

This piece reflects Janácek’s memories of childhood and youth in his native Hukvaldy and the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. Kryštof Maratka, a Czech composer resident in France and a great admirer of Janácek, has arranged the original version to produce a welcome addition to the string quartet repertoire.

Youth for wind sextet, is a masterpiece from Janácek’s late period (1924). Maratka has successfully managed to transform the concise winds’ sound that give this work its unique flavour into the timbre of the strings, thereby creating a “third string quartet” of the composer.

String quartet

SKU: FG.55011-689-4

Composed by Seppo Pohjola. Score and parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-689-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-689-4).

ISBN 9790550116894.

Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) composed his fifth string quartet, lasting about 20 minutes, in February-March 2018. He was inspired to write it by a visit to the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam the previous year, where he was greatly impressed by the vast, comprehensive retrospective and especially the horrifyingly honest self-portraits. The soft opening tones bear an instruction alluding to Schonberg's Verklarte Nacht string sextet: the quiet music must be richly shaded. The notes in the canon-like part writing almost always change at different moments in each instrument, with a longer or shorter delay. The independent lines weave tightly together. The only dynamic is forte for minutes on end in the powerful closing section. Duration c. 20 minutes. Score (A4) and parts (B4).

Composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), edited by Gewandhaus Quartet. Opus 18. Set of performance parts (parts only, score not included) for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos. Bb Major. 72 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.

By Teresa Carreno. Edited by Rosario Marciano. For string quartet. Strings - Quartet, Quintet, Sextet. Work premiere: 1896 im Leipziger Gewandhaus. Chamber Music. Level: intermediate. Pocket score. Published by Furore-Verlag (German import). (fue 1452)