Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quar...(+)
Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quartets he was 15 years old and a composition student of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. They reveal a strong Mozartian influence while the brilliant piano writing already gives a sense of the mature Beethoven. He may conceivably have written the works for the wealthy Mastiaux family in Bonn, as he gave piano lessons to one of the daughters and the other three siblings played violin, viola and violoncello.
The sole source for the quartets is the autograph score which contains many overwritings that shed light on the works' original conception and possible alternative readings. Although Beethoven never published the pieces in his lifetime and is not known to have performed them, he reused their melodic and thematic material in later compositions.
Beethoven preserved the autograph score to the end of his days ? perhaps an indication that the quartets meant a great deal to him. The first edition was published by Artaria in Vienna one year after his death, albeit with the pieces in a different order and with many errors in the musical text.
Bärenreiter's scholarly performing edition of the Piano Quartets WoO 36 is edited by the Italian pianist Leonardo Miucci, a specialist in the performance practice of keyboard music from this period. The edition not only presents the correct readings, it also sheds light on the young Beethoven's expressive notation and provides a plausible explanation for the distinction he made between dots and strokes to indicate staccato./ Répertoire / Quatuor pour Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle
This work was commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for their 50t...(+)
This work was commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for their 50th Music season and 5th Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. The first performance was given by the Los Angeles Piano Quartet in Tucson Arizona in March 1998.
Piers Hellawell's Hall Of Mirrors for Piano Quartet.Hall Of Mirrors was my first...(+)
Piers Hellawell's Hall Of Mirrors for Piano Quartet.Hall Of Mirrors was my first contribution to the Schubert Ensemble's unique initiative to bring practicable chamber music to young string players and pianists. It was written in summer of 1998 in the wake of my 'full-scale' piano quartet The Building Of Curves itself a commission from the Schubert Ensemble and was first performed at the Dartington Summer School. Hall Of Mirrors is also scored for piano quartet although the viola part is playable by a second violin and is thus scored in the treble clef.At the suggestion of the Ensemble I sought to provide an analogue of the larger work ascaled-down expression that used materials clearly related to its parent. I believe that the success of this project relies in large part on its new pieces being genuinely representative of their composers rather than mere exercises that provide a product. Hall Of Mirrors therefore tries to establish a similarly unsettled atmosphere to that of the second movement of The Building of Curves and it uses the same open-string C/D ostinato for cello and nightmarish free glissandi for violin - both materials that can be impressively brought off by a player of limited virtuosity! Hall Of Mirrors was generously commissioned by Jane Ferguson. Its title indicates a reshaping of some features of the larger edifice The Building of Curves. - Piers Hellawell
for piano quartet. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. The two nocturnes were composed imm...(+)
for piano quartet. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turned out. 2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never before had I composed under these drugged conditions – the musical dimensions were enormously exaggerated, with each interval and each phrase being elongated out of all proportion, and the whole few minutes filling the whole of time and space. The orchestration, for piano quartet, was influenced by the very neo-classical feel of the chamber version of the concertos, and the harmonic language very much the result of pondering Chopin’s very individual take on J.S Bach. They are dedicated to James MacMillan and Amelia Freedman respectively. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2010)/ Répertoire / Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle
?In the evening we played Robert?s E-Flat Major Quartet for the first time ? and...(+)
?In the evening we played Robert?s E-Flat Major Quartet for the first time ? and I was once again truly delighted at this beautiful and so youthful work? enthused Clara Schumann in 1842. Inpreparation for this work Schumann had studied String quartets by the Viennese Classical composers. This is why all of the parts in the quartet are treated equally forming a splendid ensemble. Our edition has anextensive critical commentary on account of the difficult source situation. The fold-out page in the Cello part was designed with music practice in mind. The Piano Quartet and the Piano quintet op. 44 referred toas ?sister works? were both composed in Schumann?s ?chamber music year?. For this reason we were publishing them both in the 2006 ?Schumann Year?.
Par LEIVISKA HELVI. Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad...(+)
Par LEIVISKA HELVI. Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, images of nature and narrative structures. Many of her works focus on human existential angst and spiritual searching and growth. Helvi Leiviskä originally completed her Piano Quartet in A major op. 1 in 1926 but revised it a decade later, in 1935. Written for the traditional piano quartet lineup (violin, viola, cello and piano), the work is in three movements and has a duration of about 25 minutes. It features religious and ecstatic imagery such as may be found in French, German or Russian neo-Romantic styles. Leiviskä's Piano Quartet is considered one of the cornerstones of her chamber music output. Its early version was premiered in two parts at student recitals of the Helsinki Music Institute (the 1st movement in 1925 and the 2nd and 3rd movements in 1926). The revised version was performed in full by Timo Mikkilä (piano), Sulo Aro (violin), Ilmo Ranta (viola) and Pentti Rautawaara (cello) on Finnish radio in 1939. The work was also on the programme of Leiviskä's second composition concert in 1945, being performed on that occasion by Jussi Jalas (piano), Erik Cronvall (violin), Erik Karma (viola) and Yrjö Selin (cello). Two commercial recordings have been released (Finlandia Classics 2012 and Telos Music 2016). It is published for the first time 2022 with an extensive foreword by Susanna Välimäki. The product includes the full score (piano part) and a set of string parts. Duration: c. 25'. Have a look inside by clicking 'sample'. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Quatuor avec Piano
Lost Traces Piano Quatuor: piano, violon, alto,
violoncelle Schott
Les 'traces perdues' Quatuor avec piano sont basés sur les traces de lointains ...(+)
Les 'traces perdues' Quatuor avec piano sont basés sur les traces de lointains trio avec piano dans lequel le violoncelle avait été remplacé par un alto, un fait qui est très inhabituel pour le genre. Alors que la première version était destinée pour un concert à Hambourg en mémoire de son professeur de composition ancien György Ligeti, décédé en 2006, le titre anglais de la nouvelle version en instrumentation standard peut-être aussi être sens littéral : une recherche lointaine de traces et un hommage mis en musique. / Violon, Alto, Violoncelle Et Piano
Par PESSON GERARD. Mes béatitudes résulte(nt) d'un projet presque impossible q...(+)
Par PESSON GERARD. Mes béatitudes résulte(nt) d'un projet presque impossible qui consistait à réunir dans une narration, une forme traversée, l'idéal schématisé de tout ce que j'avais dû abandonner pendant des années. Non pas un cimetière des idées, mais un programme articulé, tendu par un fil panique, des tentatives ou des repentirs qui sont tout de même la matière vive de toute invention poétique. Dans l'idéal schématisé, je voulais retrouver cette énergie, cette ferveur un peu distancée et souvent rageuse qui s'attache à la compression ou au recyclage des figures délaissées, aux moments préférés non avenus qui se retrouvent ici déformés, accélérés ou étirés. Les gestes extrêmes sont recueillis et pour ainsi dire sauvés: lenteurs élégiaques, refrains stridents, assèchement de la matière musicale, décomposition du geste instrumental en plusieurs états successifs donnés séparément. Au milieu de la partition figure, comme une stèle, livré dans un état de grande fragilité, presque hors de portée, le deuxième thème de l'adagio de la Septième symphonie de Bruckner (sans doute un des plus beaux thèmes jamais écrits). Ce n'est pas une citation mais un hors-texte sacré, pôle magnétique de toute tentative. Bruckner est sans doute l'artiste (avec Messiaen) qui a porté à ses plus ultimes conséquences la tension entre macroforme et écriture par moments interrompus ou tournant sur eux-mêmes. II est aussi le maître douloureux du repentir. Deux Abgesänge, ces fins suspendues qu'Adorno affiliait chez Mahier à la catégorie de l'accomplissement, forment alternative pour essayer de ne pas finir - 'deux détours qui sont peut-être le chemin direct' (Adorno).
Voici le programme qui résulte de ce 'centon composé des idées délaissées': refrain - pantoum - refrain - barcarolle (mib) - refrain - thrène (stèle Bruckner) - refrain - abgesang 1 - refrain (ongles et bois) - abgesang 2
Mes béatitudes, commande de l'Etat, a été créé le 27 mars 1995, au Centre Georges-Pompidou, par l'Ensemble Itinéraire sous la direction de Pascal Rophé. / contemporain / Répertoire / Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle