Christmas Round The World brings together carols from five countries in settings which explore the vivid national charateristics of each country through the ages.Ideal for both string orchestra and quartet use the arrangements exploit all the techniques and colous of the school or amatuer ensemble. There is plently of melodic interest for the inner parts and cello while jazz latin-american and medieval music provide the inspiration for the up-beat accompaniments. The beginners' line (suitable for Violin Viola and Cello) allows everyone to join in the fun of festive music making at Christmas.

The arrangement of this famous melody by Handel retains the stately and distinguished feel of the original piece but allows it to be performed by less experienced musicians. The melody is carried by the first violin while the lower parts add depth and substance to the work. An ideal introduction to string ensemble playing.

Luigi Boccherini's Guitar Quintet No.1 In D 'Fandango' for two Violins Viola Cello and Guitar. Parts.

Après la publication du volume relié de l'édition intégrale de Fauré BA 9462, nous vous proposons par ces nouveautés les éditions pour les interprètes. Le quatuor op. 15 connut déjà un grand succès du vivant de Fauré, en 1880, l'année de la première audition en publique, le Ménestrel écrit: ' ...un quatuor pour piano ...qui se fait remarquer par une grande distinction d'idées et une facture franchement moderne'. La revue et gazette musicale de Paris:' ... une oeuvre de valeur...'. Le quatuor op. 45, probablement conçu en 1885, fut achevé en 1886 ou au début de l'année 1887, et parut vraisemblablement fin 1887 ou début janvier 1888: Fauré offrit un exemplaire à Tchaïkovski. Malgré ses valeurs intrinsèques op. 45 ne supplanta pas op. 15 et ne fut très connu qu'au cours du XXième siècle. / Musique De Chambre

Ian Venables' The Song Of The Severn is a cycle of songs in celebration of Worcestershire scored for Baritone Voice String Quartet and Piano. “The Song of the Severn…clothes poems by Masefield Housman John Drinkwater and Philip Worner in sharply memorable music of bewitching lyricism idiomatic grace and rapt instinct…No lover of the early-20th-century English art song or pastoral tradition should fail to investigate this notable issue.” - Andrew Achenbach Gramophone “These five songs for voice with piano and string quartet accompaniment take the Severn Riverand its historical and natural associations as a common theme. They are absolutely stunning in their poignant beauty their profoundly noble and moving sense of tragedy and desolation that never turns sentimental or lachrymose and their perfect union of text and music to a level that rivals Schubert and Mahler.” - James A. Altena Fanfare Magazine

Søren Nils Eichberg's Piano Quartet 'Natsukusa-Ya' (2005) - for Violin Viola Cello and Piano. Commissioned by the Berbersee Festival.In memory of the Victims in Hiroshima 6 August 1945. The piece was inspired by a Haiku by Japanese poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694): Summer grass alone Remains as faded trace of Ancient warrior’s dreams Parts are available: WH31307A  

Par DUTILLEUX HENRI. Composed between 1973 and 1976, Ainsi La Nuit for String Quartet is one of the most important works of its genre, by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), a French composer following the paths of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation for the Juilliard Quartet, Ainsi La Nuit is based on a series of studies, lasting 18 minutes and divided into 7 sections: 1. Nocturne 2. Miroir d'espace 3. Litanies 4. Litanies II 5. Constellations 6. Nocturne II 7. Temps suspendu Built on single hexachords, it also uses theoctatonic mode and focuses on harmonies, contrasts and oppositions of register. Henri Dutilleux was internationally acclaimed for his work, winning prizes such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers, among many others. His work also includes a Piano sonata, two symphonies, the Violin concerto 'L'arbre des songes' (The tree of dreams) and the Cello concerto 'Tout un monde lointain' (A whole distant world)./ Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Version for String Quartet.Score available: KP00510The composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo viola my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided then to let my piece borrow the title of Waterhouse’s paint-ing: 'The Lady of Shalott'. The picture of a mad-like pale and perhaps singing woman alone in a boat without sculls which calmly slips out from the rush growth of the river is an illustration for the ending of Alfred Tennyson’s poemby the same title which again plaits into the old English legends about King Arthur. My piece tries to meander - like the river at Camelot - among these sources. As suggested above the piece was originally written for viola solo. The version for string quartet is from 1993.'

In the late 1970s Birtwistle lived on the island of Raasay off the west coast of Scotland. He was disappointed to discover that due to centuries of Scottish Presbyterian prohibition there was no surviving indigenous musical culture although there were echoes of a past spirit of music. In The Tree of Spirits he has attempted to evoke that spirit of music – what could have survived musically in a hostile environment where performances were banned and where music must have been sustained through a purely oral tradition.

The full score for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sørensen (1988) Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 16 November 1988. Parts available: KP00249The composer writes:'Even when I was writing 'Adieu' I knew that I wished to write 'Angel’s 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 'Angel’s 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 tosay 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 of the 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

Ashoob (Calligraphy No. 14) was written for Dariush Saghafi and the Carpe Diem String Quartet. Reza Valis ?Calligraphies? series isa set of an ongoing cycle of works based on the Persian modal system the ?Dastgâh? which he has been composing since2000. The basic compositional material of the work is derived from a fast tempo genre called the ?Reng ? which is usually performed at the end of a traditional Persian music concert. Versions for Persian Santoor with string quartet (original) andfor string quartet only are available from the publisher. The original version was premiered on March 18-20 2016 at the McConnell Arts Center in Columbus Ohio by Dariush Saghafi Santoor and the Carpe Diem String Quartet.

Moon River a été écrit spécialement pour Audrey Hepburn et figure sur la bande originale du film Diamants sur canapé. Peu après la chanson s?est vue reprise par de nombreux artistes et est ainsi devenue le succès mondial qu?elle reste toujours. Cette chanson d?amour pour une rivière se prête aussi à une interprétation instrumentale particulièrement par des instruments à cordes. Cet arrangement délicat de Nico Dezaire pour quatuor à cordes permet à chaque membre de l?ensemble de jouer la mélodie mélancolique.

Contents are: Adagio (from Quartet No. 10 ) * Allegretto (from Quartet No. 7 ) * Allegretto (from Quartet No. 13 ) * Allegro (from Quartet No. 2 ) * Allegro (from Quartet No. 6 ) * Allegro (from Quartet No. 8 ) * Andante (from Quartet No. 1 ) * Andante (from Quartet No. 4 ) * Andante (from Quartet No. 6 ) * Andante (from Quartet No. 13 ) * Menuetto (from Quartet No. 1 ) * Menuetto (from Quartet No. 3 ) * Menuetto (from Quartet No. 4 ) * Menuetto (from Quartet No. 9 ) * Presto (from Quartet No. 7 ) * Scherzo (from Quartet No. 15 ).