Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.KM-2500 Composed by Hanspeter Kyburz. ...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.KM-2500
Composed
by Hanspeter Kyburz.
Chamber music; stapled.
Kammermusik-Bibliothek
(Chamber Music Library).
World premiere:
Berlin, (Festspiele),
September 9, 2004
(Quatuor Diotima)
Music post-1945; New
music (post-2000). Score
and parts. Composed
2003/2004. 118 pages.
Duration 20'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #KM 2500.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.KM-2500).
ISBN 9790004502730. 9
x 12
inches.
Hanspeter
Kyburz works with three
fundamental formative
principles in his String
Quartet. Soloistic,
polyphonic and
integratively i.e.
homogeneously structured
tutti runs alternate with
one another, whereby the
form does not follow a
fixed pattern.
Multifaceted
correspondences and
motivic relationships
result from the interplay
of the individual
sections. The work was
given its much-applauded
first performance on 9
September 2004 at the
Berliner Festwochen. The
composer radically
revised his quartet after
the first performances.
From January 2005
onwards, all concerts
featuring the work will
be based on this new
version.
World
premiere: Berlin,
(Festspiele), September
9, 2004 (Quatuor
Diotima).
String Quartet SKU: HL.49045761 Toward the Savage. Composed by Tok...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.49045761
Toward
the Savage. Composed
by Tokuhide Niimi. String
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 52 pages.
Duration 1110 seconds.
Zen-On #ZN590227.
Published by Zen-On
(HL.49045761).
ISBN
9784115902275.
8.25x11.75x0.145
inches.
Improvisati
onal energy inherent in
music that spouts The
Savage Mind, which is
mentioned by Japanese
musicologist and
anthopologist Masakuni
Kitazawa in his book
Sound as Metaphor, always
fascinates me. One of the
aims of writing this work
was to test whether a
highly refined medium
like a string quartet can
produce the energy.
'Inherent in music'
mentioned above can be
restated as 'inherent in
human being.' Beyond the
intellectual inquiring
mind, I hope this worl is
strongly connected to
'living in the present.'
Tokuhide Niimi.
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String Quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49008206 Score and Parts. Compo...(+)
String Quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49008206
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Peteris Vasks. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. Composed
1977/1997. 86 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED 8899. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49008206).
ISBN
9790001124003. UPC:
073999655742.
9.0x12.0x0.34
inches.
With
serious string players
this Latvian composer has
long been recognized
because of his sonorous
tonal concepts and his
modal, occasionally
aleatoric idiom. Works
like 'Cantabile per
Archi' or 'Musica
dolorosa' are already
quite well-known, but
newer pieces like the
violin concerto with
string orchestra 'Fernes
Licht', commissioned by
Gidon Kremer for his
Kremerata Baltica, are
also gaining wide
international exposure.
The genre of the string
quartet is well
represented in Vasks'
output. The 2nd string
quartet 'Summer Tunes'
(ED 8512) has been
published for some time
and the 3rd was premiered
by the Kronos Quartet who
were so enthused that
they commissioned a 4th
quartet. In 1996,
prompted by a complete
recording of all his
string quartets by the
Miami String Quartet for
Conifer Records Vasks
totally revised his early
1st string quartet 1996,
it is here presented for
the first time in a
printed edition.
2 violins, viola, violoncello SKU: FG.55011-875-1 Composed by Lotta Wenn...(+)
2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-875-1
Composed by Lotta
Wennäkoski. Classical,
contemporary. Score &
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-875-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-875-1).
Lotta
Wennäkoski's Pige
(2021-2022) for string
quartet was commissioned
to be paired with the
Death and the Maiden
quartet by Franz Schubert
(pige is Danish for
girl). The composer
tells:
ISBN 9790006460410. 33
x 25.7 cm inches. Key:
E-flat major, a minor, g
minor.
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The Gift of Love Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Set de Parties séparées] Hope Publishing Company
(Keys of A and G). Arranged by Hal H. Hopson. For violin I and II, viola and cel...(+)
(Keys of A and G).
Arranged by Hal H.
Hopson. For violin I and
II, viola and cello.
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String Quartet No.4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle - Intermédiaire/avancé Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet - Grade 4 SKU: BT.WH31498 Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Sco...(+)
String Quartet - Grade 4
SKU: BT.WH31498
Composed by Hans
Abrahamsen. Score Only.
Composed 2013. 42 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH31498. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(BT.WH31498).
ISBN
9788759824603.
English.
String
Quartet No.4 was composed
by Hans Abrahamsen in
2012. Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
and Wigmore Hall For the
Arditti Quartet.
Programme note: The basic
idea for my Fourth String
Quartet was very clear to
me: It should be quiet
and soft music or to put
it in a german term: hoch
im Himmel gesungen ...
(â€High singing in
heaven…â€).
Each of the four
movements has a different
scordatura/pitch. The
first movement begins
like my work
â€Schneeâ€
sky-high with an airy and
soft melody by the first
violin. The second
movement is fast and
â€movement and
joyâ€-like. It
consists of two duets and
a reverse style
counterpoint. While the
sections were
progressively longerin
the first movement they
are getting shorter and
shorter in the second.
â€Dark, heavy and
earthy†is the
third movement and its
pizzicato recalls big
black raindrops falling
to the ground. It is the
dark and grainy
counterpart to the first
movement whereas the
fourth movement
corresponds to the
second. The fourth
movement was planned as a
dark and heavy
counterpart but it turned
out to be like
â€babblingâ€
music of a child. My
Fourth String Quartet has
become in its way a
serene and cool piece. So
the Quartet has been
finished luckyly after
twenty years it was
already in 1990 that I
was commissioned by
Wittener Tage für Neue
Musik to write the piece
for Arditti Quartet. Hans
Abrahamsen.
String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Wilhelm Hansen
String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Wes...(+)
String Quartet No.4 was
composed by Hans
Abrahamsen in 2012.
Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
and Wigmore Hall For the
ArdittiQuartet. Programme
note: The basic idea for
my Fourth String Quartet
was very clear to me: It
should be quiet and soft
music or to put it in a
german term: hoch im
Himmel gesungen ... (High
singing in heaven). Each
of the four movements has
a different
scordatura/pitch. The
first movement begins -
like my work 'Schnee' -
sky-high with an airy and
soft melody by the first
violin. The second
movement is fast and
movement and joy-like. It
consists of two duets and
a reverse style
counterpoint. While the
sections were
progressively longer in
the first movement they
are getting shorter and
shorter in the second.
Dark, heavy and earthy is
the third movement and
its pizzicato recalls big
black raindrops falling
to the ground. It is the
dark and grainy
counterpart to the first
movement whereas the
fourth movement
corresponds to the
second. The fourth
movement was planned as a
dark and heavy
counterpart but it turned
out to be like babbling
music of a child. My
Fourth String Quartet has
become in its way a
serene and cool piece. So
the Quartet has been
finished luckiyly after
twenty years - it was
already in 1990 that I
was commissioned by
Wittener Tage fur Neue
Musik to write the piece
for Arditti Quartet. Hans
Abrahamsen
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-510-1 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score an...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-510-1
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Score and
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-510-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-510-1).
ISBN
9790550115101.
Matt
hew Whittall's preface to
Bright Ferment (2019): I
have a complicated
history with the string
quartet. Actually, it's
not that complicated. I
spent months writing a
huge one in my early
twenties and hastily
withdrew it after a long
delayed premiere, vowing
never to write another.
In a typical case of
karmic retribution, my
fear of the form would
eventually be overcome by
the unrefusable offer to
write the compulsory
piece for the Banff
International String
Quartet Competition in my
native Canada. The short
duration requested, about
nine minutes, also felt
like a good way to wade
gingerly back into the
medium. The title was
originally just a
nice-sounding pair of
words that surfaced in a
brainstorming session
with fellow composer Alex
Freeman over an
injudicious amount of
fermented barley. When I
looked it up later, I
found that it was a
phrase of older coinage,
seemingly used more for
poetic resonance than any
fixed meaning. Ferment by
itself denotes a state of
confusion, change or lack
of order. With bright, it
takes on a more positive
connotation with regard
to society and
creativity: a wild
profusion of ideas barely
checked by reason. (It
may not actually mean
that, but it describes
this piece nicely, so
let's go with it.)
Fermentation in its
trendy culinary usage is
also hinted at via a
recurrent percolating
device of scattered
pizzicati. As one may
guess from the tone of
this introduction, there
is little attempt at
gravity in Bright
Ferment, the only means
by which I felt I could
sidestep the historical
and expressive weight of
the string quartet genre.
Styles, gestures and
moods are tossed around,
cross-cut and abandoned
in
stream-of-consciousness
fashion, connected by
little except an
intuitive sense of
rightness in their
juxtaposition. If the
piece acquires depth in
spite of me, it will only
be because its disparate
parts amplify and
strengthen each other
simply by being together
- much like the ensemble
itself. Bright Ferment
was commissioned by the
Banff Centre for the Arts
and Creativity and the
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, with
additional funding from
the Americas Society (New
York), for the 2019 Banff
International String
Quartet Competition.
Duration: ca. 9
minutes.