World
premiere: Paris (Festival
,,Presences), February
13, 2017 (Quatuor
Diotima)Commissioned by
Radio France
New
music (post-2000); Music
post-1945. Score.
Composed 2016/17. 12
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9255. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9255).
ISBN
9790004185551. 9 x 12
inches.
C'est apres
un entretien avec le
Professeur Yuji Ikegaya
concernant ses recherches
en neurologie que j'ai
voulu travailler sur
quelques particularites
fonctionnelles du cerveau
humain. Quatre de ces
specificites ont retenu
mon attention. La
premiere est ce qui est
de l'ordre de l'autonomie
ou de l'independance. En
effet, alors qu'aucune
stimulation exterieure
n'ait lieu, le cerveau
humain montre des
activites spontanees qui
s'expriment sous forme de
patterns fixes. La
seconde est le principe
d'<> des
gestes ou des phrases
avec le fonctionnement
des neurones miroirs :
l'homme apprend en
imitant les gestes des
autres, c'est la source
d'emotions comme la
compassion ou la
sympathie. La troisieme
est liee a
l'apprentissage spontane
et l'auto-renouvellement
du cerveau, faculte qui
le differencie
singulierement de
l'ordinateur. Enfin la
conscience du <>,
qui est ce qui le
differencie du cerveau de
l'animal. J'ai trouve
dans la forme classique
et austere du quatuor un
terrain d'exploration
ideal pour elaborer ce
projet musical. Le
quatuor est en effet
compose des quatre
cerveaux des musiciens,
mais il est egalement une
entite a part entiere, un
centre nevralgique
unitaire. L'ecriture
musicale procede ainsi
par imitation, sur une
base de patterns qui
varie constamment dans
une quete identitaire et
dans son rapport a
l'autre et aux autres
(musiciens). L'autre,
c'est egalement
l'autiste, celui qui
n'arrive pas bien a
imiter et a comprendre
les expressions, emotions
et gestes exterieurs. La
question des rapports
devient alors celle de la
dependance, de
l'independance et/ou de
l'interdependance. Elle
est au centre de mon
processus compositionnel
qui, par l'organisation
et la sonification des
comportements aux
differentes voix du
quatuor, est egalement un
moyen de me questionner
en tant que compositrice,
sur mon identite et sur
mon propre rapport au
monde. (Misato
Mochizuki)
World
premiere: Paris (Festival
,,Presences), February
13, 2017 (Quatuor
Diotima) Commissioned by
Radio France.
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440265S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440265S
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 25 minutes.
Merion Music #144-40265S.
Published by Merion Music
(PR.14440265S).
UPC:
680160027910.
The
Second and Third Quartets
were conceived at the
same time; indeed, their
composition intermingled,
over half of No. 3 being
sketched before No. 2 was
completed. Accordingly,
they share similar
material but, like the
intertwining blood of
cousins, their natures
differ: No. 2 being
somewhat acerbic and
declamatory, No. 3 more
lyric and gentler. An
annunicatory 'leaping
motive' (derived from a
motto generated by my
name) opens Quartet No. 2
and inhabits the course
of the piece as a
cyclical binding-force. A
five-note motive, usually
very deliberate, also
keeps recurring like an
insistent caller. All
three movements are based
on tonal centers (I on B
and E, II on D, III on C)
and the harmonic
'grammar' spoken tends to
recall the jazz world of
my youth. To hopefully
achieve a certain
classical ambience was
one of the goals of this
piece, and all three
movements have
traditional forms. The
first movement is a
modified Sonata-Allegro
design, with a
severely-truncated
recapitulation balanced
by a lengthy, and
decaying Coda. The second
movement is a set of
strophic variants and an
epilogue interspersed
with both solo ritornelli
and first-movement
material (the motto and
the five-note motive) in
the nature of a
fantasia-like
'call-and-response.' It
is dedicated to the
memory of the American
mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. The third
movement is a modified
Rondo (ABACBA) which
evolves out of the
opening motto. All three
movements make much use
of canonic stretti,
similar gestures, and
repetition. For example,
the climax of movement
III's Rondo throws the
first movement back at us
again, as if the players
were reluctant to let it
go, so that the entire
piece could perhaps be
viewed as a single large,
extended, Sonata
movement, with
introduction and
Coda. The Second and
Third Quartets were
conceived at the same
time; indeed, their
composition intermingled,
over half of No. 3 being
sketched before No. 2 was
completed.Â
Accordingly, they share
similar material but,
like the intertwining
blood of cousins, their
natures differ: No. 2
being somewhat acerbic
and declamatory, No. 3
more lyric and gentler.An
annunicatory
‘leaping
motive’ (derived
from a motto generated by
my name) opens Quartet
No. 2 and inhabits the
course of the piece as a
cyclical
binding-force. A
five-note motive, usually
very deliberate, also
keeps recurring like an
insistent caller. All
three movements are based
on tonal centers (I on B
and E, II on D, III on C)
and the harmonic
‘grammar’
spoken tends to recall
the jazz world of my
youth.To hopefully
achieve a certain
classical ambience was
one of the goals of this
piece, and all three
movements have
traditional forms.Â
The first movement is a
modified Sonata-Allegro
design, with a
severely-truncated
recapitulation balanced
by a lengthy, and
decaying Coda. The
second movement is a set
of strophic variants and
an epilogue interspersed
with both solo ritornelli
and first-movement
material (the motto and
the five-note motive) in
the nature of a
fantasia-like
‘call-and-response.
’ It is
dedicated to the memory
of the American
mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. The third
movement is a modified
Rondo (ABACBA) which
evolves out of the
opening motto.All three
movements make much use
of canonic stretti,
similar gestures, and
repetition. For
example, the climax of
movement III’s
Rondo throws the first
movement back at us
again, as if the players
were reluctant to let it
go, so that the entire
piece could perhaps be
viewed as a single large,
extended, Sonata
movement, with
introduction and
Coda.
Con te partirò Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1185968-070 (Time to Say Goo...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1185968-070
(Time to Say
Goodbye). Composed by
Francesco Sartori.
Arranged by Anthony
Gröger. De Haske Pops
for String Quartet. Pop
and Rock. Set (Score and
Parts). Composed 2019. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1185968-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1185968-070).
ISBN 9789043156707.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Con te
partirò, which
also became famous under
the title Time to Say
Goodbye, has burned
itself into the
collective musical
consciousness above all
in the interpretation by
the blind Italian tenor,
Andrea Bocelli. In the
1990s this song raced up
the singles charts and
has since become almost
indispensable at farewell
celebrations, especially
in the world of sports.
Thanks to Anthony
Grögersâ?? expressive
arrangement, string
quartets now have the
opportunity to let this
wonderful song ring out
on suitable occasions,
guaranteed to awaken the
emotionsâ?¦
C
on te partirò, ook
bekend onder de titel
Time to Say
Goodbye, heeft in de
versie van de blinde
Italiaanse tenor Andrea
Bocelli een plek in ons
collectieve muzikale
geheugen veroverd. In de
jaren negentig van de
vorige eeuw bestormde het
nummer de hitlijsten, en
sindsdien is het bij
afscheidsceremonies, met
name in de sportwereld,
nauwelijks nog weg te
denken. Dankzij Anthony
Grögers expressieve
bewerking hebben
strijkkwartetten nu ook
de mogelijkheid om dit
prachtige lied bij
passende gelegenheden ten
gehore te brengen en
daarmee ongetwijfeld een
gevoelige snaar te
raken.
Con te
partirò, auch
unter dem Titel Time
to Say Goodbye
berühmt geworden, hat
sich vor allem in der
Interpretation durch den
blinden italienischen
Tenor Andrea Bocelli in
das kollektive
Musikgedächtnis
eingebrannt. In den
neunziger Jahren des 20.
Jahrhunderts stürmte
der Titel die
Single-Charts und ist
seitdem bei groÃ?en
Abschiedsveranstaltungen,
insbesondere im Sport,
kaum noch wegzudenken.
Dank Anthony Grögers
ausdrucksvollem
Arrangement haben nun
auch
Streichquartett-Formation
en die Möglichkeit,
bei passenden Anlässen
das wunderschöne Lied
erklingen zu lassen. Da
sind die Emotionen
garantiert
â?¦
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-510-1 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score an...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-510-1
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Score and
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-510-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-510-1).
ISBN
9790550115101.
Matt
hew Whittall's preface to
Bright Ferment (2019): I
have a complicated
history with the string
quartet. Actually, it's
not that complicated. I
spent months writing a
huge one in my early
twenties and hastily
withdrew it after a long
delayed premiere, vowing
never to write another.
In a typical case of
karmic retribution, my
fear of the form would
eventually be overcome by
the unrefusable offer to
write the compulsory
piece for the Banff
International String
Quartet Competition in my
native Canada. The short
duration requested, about
nine minutes, also felt
like a good way to wade
gingerly back into the
medium. The title was
originally just a
nice-sounding pair of
words that surfaced in a
brainstorming session
with fellow composer Alex
Freeman over an
injudicious amount of
fermented barley. When I
looked it up later, I
found that it was a
phrase of older coinage,
seemingly used more for
poetic resonance than any
fixed meaning. Ferment by
itself denotes a state of
confusion, change or lack
of order. With bright, it
takes on a more positive
connotation with regard
to society and
creativity: a wild
profusion of ideas barely
checked by reason. (It
may not actually mean
that, but it describes
this piece nicely, so
let's go with it.)
Fermentation in its
trendy culinary usage is
also hinted at via a
recurrent percolating
device of scattered
pizzicati. As one may
guess from the tone of
this introduction, there
is little attempt at
gravity in Bright
Ferment, the only means
by which I felt I could
sidestep the historical
and expressive weight of
the string quartet genre.
Styles, gestures and
moods are tossed around,
cross-cut and abandoned
in
stream-of-consciousness
fashion, connected by
little except an
intuitive sense of
rightness in their
juxtaposition. If the
piece acquires depth in
spite of me, it will only
be because its disparate
parts amplify and
strengthen each other
simply by being together
- much like the ensemble
itself. Bright Ferment
was commissioned by the
Banff Centre for the Arts
and Creativity and the
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, with
additional funding from
the Americas Society (New
York), for the 2019 Banff
International String
Quartet Competition.
Duration: ca. 9
minutes.
Scherzo P 191 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Avancé Schott
In e minor for string quartet. By Ottorino Respighi. By Ottorino Respighi (18...(+)
In e minor for string
quartet. By Ottorino
Respighi. By Ottorino
Respighi (1879-1936).
Edited
by Elia Andrea Corazza.
This
edition: Saddle
stitching.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott.
Classical. Score and
parts,
softcover. Composed 1898.
24
pages. Schott Music #ED
23356. Published by
Schott
Music
Cello, Viola, 2 Violins SKU: HU.HN1224 Composed by George Gershwin. Edited by N...(+)
Cello, Viola, 2 Violins
SKU: HU.HN1224
Composed by George
Gershwin. Edited by
Norbert Gertsch. String
Quartet, Strings,
Ensembles. Lullaby for
String Quartet. Set of
Parts. G. Henle #HN1224.
Published by G. Henle
(HU.HN1224).
12.2 x 9.3 x 0.1 inches.
In 1919-20 George
Gershwin was making a
name for himself with
Broadway songs and a
first show of his own in
New York. But he was
already attracted to the
world of classical music
- a world he would enter
with a bang in 1924 with
his "Rhapsody in blue".
He prepared himself for
this by taking an
intensive course in
composition, during which
he wrote this brief
"Lullaby" for string
quartet as an exercise,
probably in 1919. He
liked its catchy melody
so much that he later
used it again in his
one-act "jazz opera"
"Blue Monday Blues". "I
find the piece charming
and kind", wrote his
brother Ira in 1968 when
the quartet movement
appeared in print for the
first time. Thus the
world was given a second
lullaby by this American
composer - one worthy to
stand alongside his
famous "Summertime" from
"Porgy and Bess".
Quartet Sant Petersburg Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Editorial de Musica Boileau
String quartet SKU: BO.B.3664 Composed by Jordi Cervello. Published by Ed...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
BO.B.3664
Composed by
Jordi Cervello. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3664).
Cuarteto San
Petersburgo (The Saint
Petersburg Quartet) was
written between January
and March 2011. It owes
its name to the fact that
Saint Petersburg has been
a very significant city
for me. I was invited
there in 1988 to take
part in a big
contemporary music
festival, but my
uninterrupted bond with
the city started on 2002,
thanks to the
negotiations of my friend
and pupil Albert Barbeta.
Since then, I have
constantly travelled
there in order to record
a considerable part of my
repertoire: seventeen
pieces. In addition to
the concerts we went to,
I took the opportunity
during my trips to visit
the well-known
conservatoire where so
many great personalities
from the world of music
composition once taught,
and the place that
launched the most
important violin school
in the whole of Russia:
the school of Leopoldo
Auer. Spending a long
time in Auer's classroom
writing my concert for
violin and orchestra was
an unforgettable
experience for me. His
large portrait motivated
me even
further.
Cuartet
o San Petersburgo evokes
many of the most
cherished and moving
moments that I have had
in this city. It is
structured in four
movements. The first one,
Allegretto-Allegro, opens
with an introduction that
sets forth the two main
themes, amid a soft and
elastic atmosphere. The
Allegro starts vigorously
and in it we find changes
in the tempo and moments
of mystery, as well as
certain seclusion,
returning then to the
emphatic theme where the
counterpoint finds its
place. The movement ends
placidly.
The
Scherzo-marcato that
follows is marked by a
persistent rhythm of
triplets that carries on
from beginning to end.
The tempo does not
change, but brief and
decided themes are
introduced, as well as
passages of counterpoint.
Brief and dissonant
chords are heard
throughout the movement,
which ends
vigorously.
The
third movement, Ut, is a
very special one. For a
while already I had been
playing with the idea of
writing a movement that
was to have the tonality
C as a leitmotiv. This
one is made up by two
slow and static parts. In
the first one, the first
violin plays
pizzicatti-glissandi. In
the second, the first
violin and particularly
the violoncello settle on
C while the other two
instruments produce
descending chromatic
harmonies.
Final
ly, the
Introduccion-Presto (the
Introduction-Presto). It
starts with some bucolic
passages which remind us
of the introduction to
the first movement. A
fast and energetic Presto
suddenly erupts. A kind
of moto perpetuo which
alternates with two
expressive passages and,
towards the end, a viola
and violoncello tremolo,
all of great mystery and
expectation, make way for
a resounding finale
marcato.