Impressions On Beethoven's Harp Quartet. Par AMANTI LUCIO. When Cuarteto Casals approached me with the idea of illuminating Beethoven´s quartets anew, you can imagine the many thoughts and feelings that where going through my mind: what a joy, what a great honor… What an intriguing head-scratcher! How can you possibly shine a new light on something that is already perfect? Weeks, months went by in search of a common ground between the Master and myself until I finally found it in the realization that a word lays “hidden” in the St. John’s hymn that gave musical notes their original name: ‘Re, Sol, Ut, Io’ (D, G, C, B in English music notation) Perfect! “Resolutio” in Latin means both the resolution of a problem and the re-solution: a re-blend of many elements that will eventually coagulate to make something new. There was finally the melodic and a rhythmical canvas for my piece. On this canvas I wrote the story of a funny little contest, played on a sunny Mediterranean square, between street musicians and Cuarteto Casals just minutes before they are about to go on stage to perform Beethoven´s “Harp Quartet”. After all the characters, each in his own way, had the chance to tell their story, a gentle rain starts to fall, dissolving (Re-solving) again the music sheet to eventually leave us with just a white piece of paper for somebody else to continue the Work. (Lucio Franco Amanti) / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

A collection of movie hits wonderfully arranged for intermediate and advanced level string quartets. Perfect for high school, university, and professional quartets! The optional bass parts also allow for use in the high school, university or community orchestra. Just the thing to read through at wedding receptions, parties, and other events. / Quatuor A Cordes

Sing - Perfect - Shape of You. Ed Sheeran was one of if not the most successful British artists of the decade, with 150 million records sold worldwide. Every song he has written has become a hit in almost every European country. Anthony Gröger picked three of the singer's most famous songs and made an accessible arrangement for string quartet, namely: Sing, Perfect and Shape of You. Simply perfect for any occasion!

8 Evergreens für Streicher-Popular classics brilliantly arranged for string quartet. Perfect light repertoire for weddings busking concerts or just for fun.Air (Bach)Leaning on a Lamp-post (Gay)Maria (Bernstein)Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Sherwin)Rondo alla Turca (Mozart)Slavonic Dance 8 (Dvorak)Träumerei (Schumann)Waltz Op12 (Grieg)

John Luther Adams' Everything That Rises for String Quartet. Composers note: I never imagined I would write a string quartet. Then I heard the JACK Quartet and I understood how Imight be able to make the medium my own. The result was The Wind in High Places - a twenty-minute work composed entirely on natural harmonics and open strings. Over the next few years twomore quartets followed. The second quartet  untouched  is a further exploration of the aeolian sound world of the first. Then in Canticles of the Sky the musicians finally touch the fingerboards of theirinstruments. And now comes Everything That Rises. This fourth quartet is more expansive both in time and in space. It grows out of Sila: The Breath of the World - aperformance-length choral/orchestral work composed on a rising series of sixteen harmonic clouds. Everything That Rises traverses this same territory but in a much more melodic way. Each musician isa soloist playing throughout. They surround the audience. Time floats. Over the course of an hour the lines spin out - always rising - in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiralupward... until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows sighing. Duration: 60 minutes

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Peters Edition is founded upon this honest assessment. By heightening our awareness of the questions that remain 'open' this edition liberates the interpretative inspiration of performers as never before. As a result the new edition is likely to become indispensable for all who perform or study these masterpieces. Each volume includes: Full Score – included with the parts for the first time – invaluable for performance preparationFold-out Pages – as required in the separate parts eliminating all page-turns within movements Guidance for Performers – as well as giving historical background to the quartets the prefaces to each volume contain a treasure trove of information about all aspects of performance practice Critical Commentary – in the extensive Critical Commentary to each volume the most authoritative early sources for Haydn's quartets are carefully evaluated and full details of their variant readings given for comparison. Naturally the composer's autograph where extant assumes pre-eminence but alternative primary sources are also considered and secondary sources drawn upon where appropriate.