String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-553-8 Allerheiligentag III. Composed ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-553-8
Allerheiligentag
III. Composed by
Jyrki Linjama. Classical.
Score and Parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-553-8.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-553-8).
Jyrki Linjama's
second string quartet
(2018) is subtitled
Allerheiligentag III. The
material for the
Allerheiligentag cycle is
a Finnish folk chorale
for All Saints' Day (no.
146 in the Finnish Hymn
Book). The first work in
the cycle is a string
trio (2007), the second a
piece for orchestra
(2009), and the fourth
and fifth are solo works
for viola da gamba and
violin.The composer
tells: The choice of
topic and material for
the string trio was
originally prompted by
the venue at which it was
to be premiered: the old
church on the island of
Seili (Sjalo). The bleak
history of the island's
leper and mental hospital
evoked images of
suffering and death. I
got so attached to the
harsh and beautiful
melody that it began to
generate a whole cycle.
The string quartet is in
three movements
(slow-quick-slow) tensed
in different ways by
contrasts. The first
movement has both
swinging softness and
cutting sharpness, the
Scherzo the wildness of a
dance of death and
lyricism, and the finale
the irrevocability of a
funeral march and tender
melodiousness.
Contralto, Baroque string quartet (contralto(2 glass crystals).2vn.va da gamba.v...(+)
Contralto, Baroque string
quartet (contralto(2
glass crystals).2vn.va da
gamba.vc)
SKU:
HL.49045309
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Joseph Schwantner.
This edition: Folder.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Softcover.
Composed 2012. 216 pages.
Duration 20'. Schott
Music #ED31320. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045309).
ISBN
9781495082443. UPC:
888680656577.
9.0x12.0x0.859 inches.
English.
I was
immediately drawn to the
quartet's poignant,
intimate and expressive
sound world, the
evocative and hauntingly
beautiful voice of
contralto Karen Clark and
the poetry of Henry David
Thoreau whose words so
thoroughly capture the
transcendental spirit of
nineteenth century New
England life. Living and
working in the high hills
of rural New Hampshire
provided a synergy of
poetry and music that
formed an ideal union to
help frame the mood,
character and direction
of this work. Joseph
Schwantner.