Composed
by Peteris Vasks. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score and
Parts. Composed 2004. 56
pages. Duration 25'.
Schott Music #ED9809.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49033305).
ISBN
9790001137911. UPC:
884088408053.
9.0x12.0x0.202
inches.
String
Quartet No. 5 consists of
two contrasting
movements. The first
movement, being present,
immediately leads to an
atmosphere of high
emotional tension. The
prevailing atmospheric
elements of the music are
dramatic and passionate,
alternating with each
other like a
kaleidoscope. In contrast
to that, a second theme
is intoned three times -
an invitation, a memory
of the existence of
another world, a
light-house which
illuminates the twilight
in which we live so
often. But this
invitation remains
unheard. The first
movement concludes with
dissonances in the upper
register - a cry of utter
desperation.The second
movement, so distant ...
yet so near, is the calm,
unhurried vocal section
of the quartet. A
forgiving, loving look at
a world tortured by grief
and contradictions.
Gradually, the singing
becomes more personal,
more emotional and more
dramatic. The rhythmic
figure of a funeral march
in the recapitulation of
the second movement is a
gesture of loss.
Eventually, the quartet
loses itself in an
atmosphere of
light-filled grief.
Peteris Vask.
Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
Composed by Michael
Berkeley. String
Quartets. Set of parts.
48 pages. Duration 18'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193412354. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193412354).
ISBN 9780193412354. 12
x 8
inches.
Berkeley's
second string quartet
uses a free, random
presentation of thematic
material. There is a
sharp contrast between
the tight and rhythmic
central section and the
final passage which
dispenses with barlines
altogether, providing a
fascinating journey
through interrelated and
continuous sections.
Composed by Michael
Berkeley. String
Quartets. Score. 32
pages. Duration 18'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193554986. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193554986).
ISBN 9780193554986. 12
x 8
inches.
Berkeley's
second string quartet
uses a free, random
presentation of thematic
material. There is a
sharp contrast between
the tight and rhythmic
central section and the
final passage which
dispenses with barlines
altogether, providing a
fascinating journey
through interrelated and
continuous sections.
(Study Score). Composed by Alban Berg (1885-1935). Edited by Ulrich Scheideler. ...(+)
(Study Score). Composed
by Alban Berg
(1885-1935). Edited by
Ulrich Scheideler. For
String Quartet (Study
Score). Henle Study
Scores. Softcover. G.
Henle #HN7000. Published
by G. Henle
(Parts). Composed by Alban Berg (1885-1935). Edited by Ulrich Scheideler. For St...(+)
(Parts). Composed by
Alban Berg (1885-1935).
Edited by Ulrich
Scheideler. For String
Quartet. Henle Music
Folios. Softcover. G.
Henle #HN1000. Published
by G. Henle
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
By Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Edited by Ulrich KrÌ_mer and Ulrich Kr. For Stri...(+)
By Claude Debussy
(1862-1918). Edited by
Ulrich KrÌ_mer and
Ulrich Kr. For String
Quartet (Parts). Henle
Music Folios. G. Henle
#HN999. Published by G.
Henle
Tango Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Schott
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) SKU: HL.49045929 No. 7 ...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.49045929
No. 7 from:
“Jazz-like. Partita
for Piano†String
Quartet Score and
Parts. Composed by
Erwin Schulhoff. Arranged
by Wolfgang Birtel.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. 12
pages. Schott Music
#ED22607. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045929).
9.0x12.0x0.057
inches.
The
Austro-Hungarian composer
Erwin Schulhoff
(1894-1942) was musically
precocious: At the
suggestion of AntonÃn
Dvorák, he
receivedpiano lessons at
the age of seven, and at
the age of ten became a
student at the Prague
Conservatory. Further
piano studies in Vienna,
Cologne and Leipzig as
well as composition
lessons with Max Reger
supplemented his
education. His Jewish
heritage, which defamed
his music as
“degenerateâ€,
and his sympathy for
communism, however, cost
him his life. In Prague
and finally interned in
Wülzburg near
Weissenburg in Bavaria,
he died of tuberculosis.
Schulhoff's musical
significance lies in the
integration of jazz into
art music, for example in
his oratorio H.M.S. Royal
Oak or in his Hot Sonata
for alto saxophone and
piano. He earned his
living as a jazz pianist
for a long time. In
August 1922 he wrote four
short piano pieces, his
Rag Music, to which he
added four more phrases
in November: released as
Partita, also known as
Jazz-like Partita - with
the fashion dances
Ragtime, Foxtrott,
Shimmy, Boston and - as
No. 7 - a tango. From a
piano to a string quartet
movement, the arrangement
presents itself as a
delicate and smart,
technically not too
difficult sweet, suitable
as a diversion or
addition in a quartet
program.
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String Quartet (rec,vl,vc,pno) SKU: BR.EB-6705 Pieces in Two to Four P...(+)
String Quartet
(rec,vl,vc,pno)
SKU:
BR.EB-6705
Pieces
in Two to Four Parts.
Composed by Fritz
Scharlach. Chamber music;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. Music
pedagogy. Full score. 56
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 6705.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-6705).
ISBN 9790004169063. 9
x 12 inches.
German.
Though a
piano can always be
included, it is not an
essential requirement for
the performance of these
settings: in some of the
carols, two violins or
two flutes are quite
sufficient, especially if
voices are used as well.
The following
combinations are
particularly suitable for
domestic music-making,
whether or not voices are
included as well:one
violin and piano,two
violins and piano,two or
three violins,violins and
recorders,two concert (C)
flutes (and an alto
flute) and - as the ideal
combination for
shepherds' songs -
flutes, violins, cello
and piano.Performing
groups and music schools
have the advantage of a
wider choice of forces
and the possibility of
varying the
instrumentation within
the individual carols and
verses. Thus large and
small combinations can
alternate, strings and
flutes can play in turn,
and finally the piano can
be used by itself or to
reinforce other
instrumental
combinations, in which
case the cello can be
added, too.The pieces are
graded in increasing
order of difficulty; the
first carols are chosen
so that they can be
mastered by violinists
after as little as 4 to 6
months of learning their
instrument. The choise
and sequence of the
carols in this book, and
also their keys, were
determined, amongst other
factors, by their
suitability for the start
of violin tuition, both
in first and in third
position, so that these
carols make an especially
good supplement of
Christmas music to the
violin method of Fritz
and Gottfried Scharlach
(with its principle of
starting with the third
position). The
progressively increasing
difficulty of the carols
has resulted, for
example, in the three
Advent carols (nos.
23-25) being placed later
in the collection.The
editor hopes that these
carols will be much
played and sung, and thus
help to fill the
Christmas season with joy
and splendour.Fritz
Scharlach, Salzburg,
December 1972
Our
beautiful Christmas
carols, old and new, are
presented here in
settings, ranging from
the easy to the more
difficult, for various
combinations of voices
and instruments that may
be available in domestic
music-making or for a
Christmas concert.