Urtext. Composed
by Robert Schumann.
Edited by Nick
Pfefferkorn. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Romantic
period. Study Score. 124
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 32032-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-32032-07).
ISBN
9790004215661. 6.5 x 9
inches.
Invaluable
Glimpses Schumann's close
collaboration with the
David quartet, together
with the valuable advice
of his friend Mendelssohn
Bartholdy, led the
composer to make
extensive changes to the
Streichquartette op. 41
before publication in
December 1842. The
present edition is hence
to be thought of as a
critical Urtext edition;
it offers in fact to
those interested, an
invaluable glimpse into
Schumann's creative
process and his striving
for the final form of his
string quartets. All the
deletions, changes, and
the original phrasing
were carefully worked out
in detail, restored, and
editorially identified in
the music text. A
detailed preface giving
the geneses of the works,
as well as pages of the
autograph score in
facsimile, complement the
edition. The parts are of
course so configured in
the reliable Breitkopf
quality that the quartets
can also be performed
today in the traditional
form. The present edition
was also used for the
Leipzig String Quartet's
2010 CD recording.
Composed by David Felder.
144-40530. Contemporary.
Full score (study). With
Standard notation.
Composed 1988. 24 pages.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40530S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440530S).
UPC:
680160584796. 9.5 x 13
inches.
Featured on
the Bridge Records CD
Music of David Felder, as
recorded by the Arditti
String Quartet. Felder's
Third Face was given its
first performance by the
Arditti, at the 1988
Buffalo new music
festival. I was struck by
it then; after further
hearings of it I admire
it even more. It is
lucid, but with a
controlled wildness in
its making. Written for
virtuosi, it challenges
them by presenting its
fierce, fertile ideas
with almost reckless
rhythmic and dynamic
exuberance. (Andrew
Porter, The New Yorker)
For advanced performers.
Duration: 11'.
String Quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49008206 Score and Parts. Compo...(+)
String Quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49008206
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Peteris Vasks. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. Composed
1977/1997. 86 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED 8899. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49008206).
ISBN
9790001124003. UPC:
073999655742.
9.0x12.0x0.34
inches.
With
serious string players
this Latvian composer has
long been recognized
because of his sonorous
tonal concepts and his
modal, occasionally
aleatoric idiom. Works
like 'Cantabile per
Archi' or 'Musica
dolorosa' are already
quite well-known, but
newer pieces like the
violin concerto with
string orchestra 'Fernes
Licht', commissioned by
Gidon Kremer for his
Kremerata Baltica, are
also gaining wide
international exposure.
The genre of the string
quartet is well
represented in Vasks'
output. The 2nd string
quartet 'Summer Tunes'
(ED 8512) has been
published for some time
and the 3rd was premiered
by the Kronos Quartet who
were so enthused that
they commissioned a 4th
quartet. In 1996,
prompted by a complete
recording of all his
string quartets by the
Miami String Quartet for
Conifer Records Vasks
totally revised his early
1st string quartet 1996,
it is here presented for
the first time in a
printed edition.
Soprano voice and string quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49008142 Acht Lie...(+)
Soprano voice and string
quartet - difficult
SKU: HL.49008142
Acht Lieder und ein
Fragment von Felix
Mendelssohn
Bartholdy. Composed
by Felix Bartholdy
Mendelssohn. Arranged by
Aribert Reimann. This
edition: Paperback/Soft
Cover. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. Composed 1996. 124
pages. Duration 24'.
Schott Music #ED8762.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49008142).
ISBN
9790001121705. UPC:
840126938913. 0.4 inches.
German.
This cycle
arranged by Aribert
Reimann of eight Lieder
by Mendelssohn contains
well-known items like:
'Leise zieht durch mein
Gemut' and 'Auf Flugeln
des Gesangs'. The songs
are joined to each other
by specially composed
intermezzi which attempt
- with refer-ence to the
thematic material of the
songs - to re-interpret
Mendelssohn's idiom for
our time. '... oder soll
es Tod bedeuten' ist the
final work in Reimann's
series of adaptions of
19th-century songs for
voice and string quartet.
Franz Schubert's 'Mignon'
(ED 8466) has already
been published. All these
cycles have been recorded
by Juliane Banse and the
Cherubini Quartet and are
available on CD (TUD
7063).
Final Countdown Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
String Quartet - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1155643-070 Composed by Joey Te...(+)
String Quartet -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1155643-070
Composed by Joey Tempest.
Arranged by Anthony
Gröger. De Haske Pops
for String Quartet. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2015. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1155643-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1155643-070).
ISBN 9789043145954.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
Recorded by
Swedish rock band Europe,
Final Countdown
has remained one of the
classic rock tunes of all
time. This international
number 1 chart hit has
been expertly arranged
for String Quartet by
Anthony Gröger. Let
the Countdown begin!
Complied and
transcribed for Baritone
and String Quartet by
Aribert Reimann.
Composed by Aribert
Reimann and Franz Liszt.
Arranged by Aribert
Reimann. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Vocal. Classical.
Score and parts. Composed
1860-1880. 76 pages.
Duration 20'. Schott
Music #ED 21885.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49044628).
ISBN
9790001198493. UPC:
841886022027.
9.25x12.0x0.212 inches.
German.
Aribert
Reimann's idea to arrange
the lieder of Franz Liszt
for baritone and string
quartet goes back to his
collaboration with
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
recording some of these
lieder for the German
broadcasting company
formerly known as Sender
Freies Berlin (SFB).
Since then, Reimann has
continued to be
fascinated by Liszt's
thrilling harmony and
unconventional treatment
of the voice. Here, he
has compiled a cycle
containing seven lieder
from Liszt's middle and
late periods, arranged so
that each song is the
logical continuation of
its predecessor. Liszt's
fundamental harmony has
been retained, but the
registers have been
altered to such an extent
that they appear in a
completely new light.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.UE036720 Composed by Aleksey Igudesm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.UE036720
Composed
by Aleksey Igudesman.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
28 pages. Universal
Edition #UE036720.
Published by Universal
Edition (PR.UE036720).
ISBN 9783702473631.
UPC:
803452070757.
Igude
sman's entry in the genre
of serious string quartet
music is a joyful,
exciting three-movement
set. The music is
driving, rhythmic,
absorbed, requiring full
focus of all four
players. A touring and
recording artist on the
violin, Igudesman
naturally imparts the
most beautiful lines to
his own instrument, but
doesn't neglect the other
performers, each of whom
has a turn in the
spotlight.
String Quartet SKU: BR.EB-9270 Composed by Christian Mason. Chamber music...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BR.EB-9270
Composed
by Christian Mason.
Chamber music. Edition
Breitkopf. New music
(post-2000); Music
post-1945. Sheet Music.
Composed 2018. 28 pages.
Duration 21'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9270.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9270).
ISBN 9790004185704. 9
x 12 inches.
I fell
in love with the
remarkable singing of the
Tenores di Bitti on
hearing their recordings
as a student. Their
uniquely intense vocal
timbre, their harmony,
which seemed pure and
rough at once, and the
sense that this music
was, at root, not so much
about performance as
simply being together in
the world, in a community
of spirit. At the time, I
had no intention of using
this music to my own
creative ends, but now,
here we are: Sardinian
Songbook is the second in
a cycle of works for the
Ligeti Quartet, all based
on transcriptions of
music from different
throat-singing
traditions. Like string
quartets, the tenores
usually sing in groups of
four voices, but being
free from instruments
they stand very close
together enabling the
resonances of their
voices to blend and
interact in a special
way. The quartet, of
course, can only sit so
close before their bows
clash, so I have chosen
instead to reflect this
physical closeness
inversely, by getting the
players to stand
increasingly far from one
another as the piece
progresses. In so doing,
the initial state of
sonic blend gives way to
hocketing lines, opening
up the sense of
space.Christian Mason,
2018 The four movements
may be played separately
or as a collection. If
played together the
following order should be
observed (see table of
contents).
World
premiere: Sheffield/UK,
Firth Hall, April 14,
2018, Commissioned by
Ligeti Quartet.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-32032 Urtext. Composed by Ro...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.EB-32032
Urtext. Composed
by Robert Schumann.
Edited by Nick
Pfefferkorn. Chamber
music; Folder. Edition
Breitkopf. Romantic
period. Set of parts. 140
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 32032.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.EB-32032).
ISBN
9790004186343. 9 x 12
inches.
Invaluable
Glimpses Schumann's close
collaboration with the
David quartet, together
with the valuable advice
of his friend Mendelssohn
Bartholdy, led the
composer to make
extensive changes to the
Streichquartette op. 41
before publication in
December 1842. The
present edition is hence
to be thought of as a
critical Urtext edition;
it offers in fact to
those interested, an
invaluable glimpse into
Schumann's creative
process and his striving
for the final form of his
string quartets. All the
deletions, changes, and
the original phrasing
were carefully worked out
in detail, restored, and
editorially identified in
the music text. A
detailed preface giving
the geneses of the works,
as well as pages of the
autograph score in
facsimile, complement the
edition. The parts are of
course so configured in
the reliable Breitkopf
quality that the quartets
can also be performed
today in the traditional
form. The present edition
was also used for the
Leipzig String Quartet's
2010 CD recording.
String Quartet Study Score. Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-)....(+)
String Quartet Study
Score. Composed by
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
(1934-). Music Sales
America. Softcover.
Chester Music #CH72809.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14037517).
String Quartet.
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2006. Chester
Music #CH6983901.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14008383).
8.5x11.75x0.35
inches.
The set of
parts for Maxwell
Davies's Naxos Quartet
Six for strings. This
work was commissioned by
the Naxos Recording
Company, and is the sixth
in a series of ten
quartets. It was first
performed on 26th April
2005 at the Purcell Room,
London by the Maggini
Quartet.
John's Book of Alleged Dances Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] Boosey and Hawkes
For String Quartet and Pre-recorded Tape. By John Adams. (Study Score). Boosey ...(+)
For String Quartet and
Pre-recorded Tape. By
John Adams. (Study
Score). Boosey and Hawkes
Scores and Books. Book
only. 98 pages. Published
by Boosey and Hawkes.
String quartet SKU: HL.49019755 Composed by Paul Hindemith. This edition:...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
HL.49019755
Composed
by Paul Hindemith. This
edition: Full-cloth
binding. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Hardcover. 220 pages.
Schott Music #PHA504-10.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019755).
ISBN
9783795792886.
11.0x15.25x1.01
inches.
The work of
Paul Hindemith is
encyclopedic in nature.
From the outset, he
worked in all musical
genres and devised
several of his musical
ideas and projects not as
individual,
self-contained works but
as work cycles with
different functional
relationships. These
contrasting pieces
complement each other if
experienced as part of
the overall structure.
Hindemith himself not
only wanted a complete
edition of his collected
works but had begun
planning it; at his death
he left a detailed list
of ‚Unpublished
pieces for an eventual
complete
edition‘.The
Complete Works contain
all finished works in all
extant versions, newly
engraved for the edition.
Sketches and fragments
are published in
appendices of the
relevant volume, and are
evaluated in the
Introduction and Critical
Commentary by the
respective volume
editor.Each volume
contains a preface by the
editorial directors and
an introduction by the
volume editor,
delineating the genesis
and performance history
of the work, with
authentic performance
instructions, an
evaluation of extant
recordings by Paul
Hindemith himself and a
Critical Commentary.The
Complete Works of Paul
Hindemith are thus
presented in a critical,
scholarly edition which
is equally appropriate
for study and
performance. Hindemith
researchers will welcome
the numerous first
publications of works by
the composer, and
practical musicians will
appreciate the newly
prepared, philologically
ordered performance
material.