Par DUTILLEUX HENRI. Composed between 1973 and 1976, Ainsi La Nuit for a String Quartet is one of the most important works of its genre, by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), a French composer. This score of Ainsi La Nuit is the conductor's score, with the four instruments altogether. The score for each individual instrument can be bought separately. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation for the Juilliard Quartet, Ainsi La Nuit is based on a series of studies, lasts 18 minutes and is divided into 7 sections: 1. Nocturne 2. Miroir d'espace 3. Litanies 4. Litanies II 5. Constellations 6. Nocturne II 7. Temps suspendu Built on single hexachords, it also use the octatonic mode and focus on harmonies, contrasts and oppositions of register. Henri Dutilleux was internationally acclaimed for his work winning prizes such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers, among many others. His work also includes a Piano sonata, two symphonies, the Violin concerto 'L'arbre des songes' (The tree of dreams) and the Cello concerto 'Tout un monde lointain' (A whole distant word)./ Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement. Duration: c. 13' This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized). American-Finnish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality. His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès’s second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade – Morning Dew. A sombre third movement, Days, is underpinned by a searching ostinato before the work breaks free from conventional time in The Twenty-Fifth Hour, the glittering finale which swings and dances in the unusual time signature of 25/16. / Ensemble Music / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

from Singin’ in the Rain. Par FREED ARTHUR / GROGER ANTHONY (ARR.). La chanson Singin' in the Rain fut enregistrée pour la première fois en 1929, dans l'un des premiers films parlant américains. Cependant, sa popularité actuelle lui vient avant tout d'une scène inoubliable de la comédie musicale du même nom, plus tardive : le comédien Gene Kelly la chante gaiement en dansant dans les rues alors qu'une pluie battante le trempe des pieds à la tête. Le swing de cette mélodie charmante devenue l'un des standards de jazz les plus populaires a été saisi avec talent par Anthony Kröger dans son adaptation pour quatuor à cordes. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Date parution : 2019-12-05/ Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes

À la fin des années 1970, Birtwistle a vécu sur l'île de Raasay large de la côte ouest de l'Ecosse. Il a été déçu de découvrir que grâce à des siècles de presbytérien écossais interdiction n'y avait pas de survivant culture musicale indigène, bien qu'il y ait des échos d'un passé esprit de la musique. Dans 'The Tree of Spirits', il a tenté d'évoquer l'esprit de la musique - ce qui aurait survécu musicalement dans un environnement hostile où les performances ont été interdits et où la musique doit avoir été soutenue par une tradition purement orale. / Quatuor A Cordes