String Quartet

SKU: HL.14030964

Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 10 pages. Music Sales #KP00510. Published by Music Sales (HL.14030964).

ISBN 9788759861455. English.

The Composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo Viola, my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided, then, to let my piece borrow the title of Waterhouse's painting: The Lady Of Shalott. The picture of a mad-like, pale, and perhaps singing woman alone in a boat without sculls, which calmly slips out from the rush growth of the river is an illustration for the ending of Alfred Tennyson's poem by the same title, which again plaits into the old English legends about King Arthur. My piece tries to meander - like the river at Camelot - among these sources.' As suggested above the piece was originally written for Viola solo. This version for String Quartet is from 1993.

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.14023668

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 1993. 22 pages. Chester Music #CH60865. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023668).

ISBN 9780711932975. 9.0x12.0x0.095 inches.

String Quartet No.3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins, for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian, Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed, quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.

2 violins, viola, violoncello

SKU: FG.55011-853-9

Composed by Lara Poe. Classical, contemporary. Score & parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-853-9. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-853-9).

Lara Poe's (b. 1993) energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of the second movement diverges to the third movement's overtone derived chords.

Duration: c. 25'

This product includes a set of parts (violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello) and a score.

Lara Poe is a Finnish-American composer who is currently based in London. Her works have been performed across a wide range of venues throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Her piece Kaamos, which she wrote for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, was recently nominated for a Ivors Composer Award in the Large Scale Composition category. Kaamos also was selected by YLE Radio Finland to represent Finland at the International Rostrum of Composers 2021 in Belgrade, Serbia. Poe was the 2019 Tanglewood Music Patricia Plum Wilde Fellow and represented Finland at Ung Nordisk Musik 2019 in Piteå. She was also a 2018-2019 participant in the London Symphony Orchestra's Panufnik Scheme, where she worked under the guidance of Colin Matthews and Christian Mason.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14023641

Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 1993. 80 pages. Chester Music #CH61116. Published by Chester Music (HL.14023641).

ISBN 9780711964082. 9.0x12.0x0.219 inches.

String Quartet No.4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, Alan Bush. This quartet is a narrative made up of a chain of twelve complete but often cross-related movements, each quite simple in design. For instance, the Scottish melody first heard in the second half of I is hinted at in the 2nd violin/viola in the second fast section of II and is directly quoted again during III and XII. The theme of the fast section of IV is taken up again in VIII; IX reverts to the mood of the opening of I, while the rising scale/syncopated themes of II, IX and the bass of X and XII are related. X also reintroduces the slow harmonics theme from VII. XII is (apparently) cast in the form of a baroque French rondeau. The main theme of VI was plucked out of the Quartet and used in my score for Christopher Hampton's film Carrington. Duration 40 minutes. A set of parts is available for sale.

2 violins, viola, cello (Violins (2), Viola, Violoncello)

SKU: BA.BA06857

Composed by Leos Janacek. Edited by Leoš Faltus and Miloš Štedron. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leos Janacek E/4. Complete edition, Score, Set of parts. Composed 1928. No. 2. Duration 26 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA06857_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA06857).

ISBN 9790260100503. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.

Janácek� �€™s 2nd String Quartet, “Intimate Letters”, is regarded as a highlight of the modern string quartet literature. It was written during the composer’s last year of life, between 29 January and 19 February 1928, inspired by the ageing Janácek’s exceptional love for Kamila Stösslová. The Moravian Quartet devoted themselves to this impressive work; Janácek attended a total of three of their rehearsals in May and June 1928. This had several consequences, including his abandoning his original idea of using a viola d’amore.

Af ter Janácek’s unexpected death (12 August 1928) the uncertain genesis of the work became the greatest problem of the “Intimate Letters”: the surviving copies were not definitively authorised.

The editors of this new edition have reverted to Janácek’s autograph sketches as the main, most reliable source and using these as a basis, have reconstructed the work as it stood at the point of Janácek’s death.

The musical text therefore contains clear differences in comparison with older editions.

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(For Baritone and String Quartet). By Ricky Ian Gordon. String quartet. For Baritone, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello. This edition: Study score. Premiere: Jesse Blumberg baritone, Miami String Quartet, Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival. Contemporary. Full score (study). Standard notation. Duration 1 hour. Published by Theodore Presser Company

String quartet

SKU: EC.LMP046

Composed by Kareem Roustom. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #LMP046. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.LMP046).

These Four Dances from CLORINDA AGONISTES (Clorinda the warrior) are taken from a recently completed dramatic work; a hybrid opera & dance theatre work currently of the same title. The name Clorinda comes from Monteverdi’s opera Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , whose libretto is from the epic poem by Tasso titled, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Liberated). The dramatic work, which was commissioned by the London based Shobana Jeyasingh Dance company, the Sadler’s Wells Theatre and the Royal Philharmonic Society, was composed as a companion piece to Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento.

Contents:
I. Transitions
II. Pursuit
III. Shawq شوق (Yearning)
IV. Unity (We dance together)

Tost Quartet I No. 6. By Franz Joseph Haydn. (Study Score). Schott. 20 pages. Published by Eulenburg London (Schott).

String Quartet

SKU: BR.SON-634

Composed by Jean Sibelius. Edited by Tuija Wicklund Pekka Helasvuo. Chamber music; Linen. Complete Works. Late-romantic; Early modern. Complete Works. 328 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 634. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-634).

ISBN 9790004803691. 9 x 12 inches.

Sibelius's oeuvre contains four string quartets. They appeared over a long time span and in different phases of his professional career. Most of his early compositions were chamber music, and he composed his three earliest quartets (in E flat major (JS 184, 1885), A minor (JS 183, 1889), B flat major (Op. 4, 1890)) around his study years. They remained unprinted during his lifetime, and the string quartet in E flat major was also not performed in public. The quartet in D minor Voces intimae op. 56, on the other hand, was completed in London in the spring of 1909, and Sibelius wrote to his wife Aino: It became wonderful. Just the kind that raises a smile on one's face even at the moment of death. Voces intimae was published in the same year. Even later, Sibelius seemed to be very satisfied with his composition, for he wrote in his diary: It is generally claimed to be my best work. I do not think quite that, but it does belong among my best ones..

String quartet

SKU: BA.TP00935

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Study score. Opus 135. Baerenreiter Verlag #TP00935_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP00935).

ISBN 9790006203147. 22.5 x 16.5 cm inches. Key: F major. Preface: Misha Donat / Jonathan Del Mar.

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String quartet (2V,Va,Vc)

SKU: BA.TP00932

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Barenreiter Urtext. Study score. Opus 132. Baerenreiter Verlag #TP00932_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP00932).

ISBN 9790006203130. 22.5 x 16.5 cm inches. Key: A minor. Preface: Donat, Misha.

After years of several personal and creative crises, the last two years of Beethoven's life were marked by an irrepressible creative urge that was directed almost exclusively towards the string quartet genre.

Of all these late works, it is the Quartet in A minor op. 132 that most impressively addresses the overcoming of the depression of the past years. The middle of the five movements is aCanzona di ringraziamentoentitled:Ho ly Song of Thanksgiving of a recovered person to the deity in the Lydian key.

In this movement a slow introduction is followed by the heading:Feeling renewed strength. Due to the middle movement full ofdivine power, this string quartet is certainly one of Beethoven's most emotional compositions.

For this new edition of the Quartet op. 132, Beethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar consulted the autograph as well as several sets of parts corrected by Beethoven, enabling him to correct countless inconsistencies and unconvincing editorial decisions of previous editions.

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String quartet (2V,Va,Vc)

SKU: BA.TP00930

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Barenreiter Urtext. Study score. Opus 130. Baerenreiter Verlag #TP00930_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.TP00930).

ISBN 9790006203093. 22.5 x 16.5 cm inches. Key: B-flat major. Preface: Donat, Misha.

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- Page-turns, fold-out pages, and cues where you need them
- A well-presented layout and a user-friendly format
- Excellent print quality
- Superior paper and binding