for solo cello. Par LARCHER THOMAS. I do not compose my pieces for a certain voice range or orchestration, but for musicians, for people. It is almost impossible for me to produce a piece without having a particular person in mind or to hear him/her inwardly. No matter how standardized the interpretation of classical music is, and no matter how many coordinates have been fixed and defined, I do not want to have them seen (and therewith the notation) as determining and limiting signs, but rather as guideposts towards the creation of vital, organic music. In differentiated music, two participants are necessary in order for a piece to evolve-- the composer and the musician. Just as there is no one way for a composer to express himself or to notate music, etc., neither is there one way for a musician to read the notation, to interpret, or to live. We find ourselves, for this reason, in a network of meanings, gestures, and signs which have to be fathomed and expanded together. The tone, the breath, the gestures, the dedication, and the potentialities of a musician were also ultimately decisive for the form of this piece. It is music which pushes the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument to its very limits. It is music in which the musician has to transport the contexts and expression over and above the notation. It was not necessary for me to find a new form for this piece; it is a work which can and should be performed in a ‘normal’ concert situation. I deliberately wanted to integrate the perhaps new and unusual content into a familiar form (thus the title ‘Sonata’) And I also wanted to embed the aforementioned extreme situations (in which the technical extremes are synonyms for tension, isolation, loss or tenderness) in an organic process in order for the listener to be able to empathize with and comprehend what is expressed in the piece. I would like to thank Natalie Clein, to whom the Sonata is dedicated, for inspiring this piece and for the path that led to the realization of the music. Thomas Larcher/ Répertoire / Violoncelle

Par ADES THOMAS. Composed in 1994 and now firmly established as part of the contemporary string quartet repertoire, Arcadiana is one of Thomas Adès’s early masterpieces. Six of its seven movements evoke various vanished or vanishing idylls. The odd-numbered movements are all aquatic. I might be the ballad of some lugubrious gondolier; III takes a title and a figuration from a Schubert Lied; in V a ship is seen swirling away to L’Isle Joyeuse; VII is the River of Oblivion. The second and sixth movements inhabit pastoral Arcadias, respectively: Mozart’s ‘Kingdom of Night’, and more local fields. The joker in this pack is the fourth movement, the literal dead centre: Poussin’s tomb bearing the inscription ‘Even in Arcady am I’. / Ensemble Music / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Plappergeister - String Quartet No. 5 by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen (2009). Written for Quartetto di Cremona with support fromthe Danish States Arts Foundation Parts available: WH31122A

Thomas Adèsâ??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.

Par SCHLEE THOMAS DANIEL. / Répertoire / Hautbois, 2 Cors et Instruments à Cordes

Par SCHLEE THOMAS DANIEL. / Niveau : Difficile / contemporain / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Hautbois et Harpe

Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen's String Quartet No.6 (2013). Dedicated to Rahel Marie Dorothea Urton and written for Quartetto di Cremona.

String Quartet No.7 'The Extinguishable' was composed by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen in 2014.

10 flexible Blues Arrangements for String Ensemble. Par HUFSCHMIDT THOMAS. Get the blues by playing in small or large ensembles of woodwinds, brass, strings, or rhythm section!Play together in harmony with classmates, family, and friends. Use any combination of instruments and any skill level. Everyone can play the blues! As a conductor of school bands or ensembles you?re always looking for arrangements that can be played by players of different levels and instrument groups. At many times such arrangements don?t fit to what you require. Alfred?s Flex-Ability series will fit for you! Arranged for multi-level instrumentalists to play popular music together, this Flex-Ability Blues series will enable you:? to perform each blues song either as solo, duet, trio, quartet, and/or quintet to bring together players of different levels to choose your individual ensemble of any size to combine any instrument part from any book with any part from the other books The Flex-Ability Blues series provides you with seven instrumental books including ten blues songs in five-part score form you can use in such a flexible way. The arrangements are carefully crafted to sound authentic, optional octaves are included to allow for range flexibility. To help you practice, a downloadable PDF Piano accompaniment for all the pieces in this book is available online. This way, you definitely will have the blues!/ Recueil / Violon, Alto ou Violoncelle

Par ADES THOMAS. The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

In der ?intimen Klanglichkeit des Streichquartettes? liegt für den Komponisten Thomas Daniel Schlee das Potential eine ?freilich ?nur? individuelle Antwort auf die heute zu beklagende weitgehende gesellschaftliche Verlorenheit neuer Kunstmusik zu formulieren.? Sein Viertes Streichquartett beginnt mit einem reinen C-Dur-Klang aus dem sich ein harmonisch freies Band der Stimmen entwickelt: ?Reines als Quelle nicht Gefälliges!? Nach einer melodisch dominierten Episode und einer Fortsetzung des ?schwingenden Tonsatzes des Beginns? tritt ein thematisch verfestigter Abschnitt ein. Ihm antwortet eine zweite erweiterte melodische Episode gefolgt von einer ?nächtlichen Szene?. Der Kreis schließt sich mit der Fortführung der das Werk eröffnenden Musik. Diese mündet in einen Klagegesang ? zunächst des Ensembles zuletzt in der ?langen einsamen Melodiesuche der Bratsche als Sinnbild eines Abschiedes.?