SKU: FG.55011-882-9

The first composer to warrant a place in the musical history of Finland, Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) was an excellent violinist, and he also played the cello. His musical reputation spread all the way to Stockholm (Finland was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden), and in 1797 was there admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Music.

The I violin, viola and cello parts of Tulindberg’s String Quartets were discovered in 1923 in the collections of Helsinki University Library. They were copies of the instrumental parts presumably made by Tulindberg himself, though they were possibly never used during his lifetime. Not only is the whole of the II violin part missing; the first movement of the viola part of the fifth Quartet stops in the middle of a phrase, and the last 60 bars or so of the movement’s manuscript page are just empty staves.

In the early 2000s, the Rantatie Quartet asked Anssi Mattila whether he would like to reconstruct the missing II violin part. The job was finished in 2004 and the Rantatie Quartet released a Classical Emma-winning disc of the Quartets in 2006.

This product includes the full score and the set of parts.

SKU: FG.55011-879-9

The first composer to warrant a place in the musical history of Finland, Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) was an excellent violinist, and he also played the cello. His musical reputation spread all the way to Stockholm (Finland was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden), and in 1797 was there admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Music.

The I violin, viola and cello parts of Tulindberg’s String Quartets were discovered in 1923 in the collections of Helsinki University Library. They were copies of the instrumental parts presumably made by Tulindberg himself, though they were possibly never used during his lifetime. Not only is the whole of the II violin part missing; the first movement of the viola part of the fifth Quartet stops in the middle of a phrase, and the last 60 bars or so of the movement’s manuscript page are just empty staves.

In the early 2000s, the Rantatie Quartet asked Anssi Mattila whether he would like to reconstruct the missing II violin part. The job was finished in 2004 and the Rantatie Quartet released a Classical Emma-winning disc of the Quartets in 2006.

This product includes the full score and the set of parts.

SKU: FG.55011-884-3

The first composer to warrant a place in the musical history of Finland, Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) was an excellent violinist, and he also played the cello. His musical reputation spread all the way to Stockholm (Finland was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden), and in 1797 was there admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Music.

The I violin, viola and cello parts of Tulindberg’s String Quartets were discovered in 1923 in the collections of Helsinki University Library. They were copies of the instrumental parts presumably made by Tulindberg himself, though they were possibly never used during his lifetime. Not only is the whole of the II violin part missing; the first movement of the viola part of the fifth Quartet stops in the middle of a phrase, and the last 60 bars or so of the movement’s manuscript page are just empty staves.

In the early 2000s, the Rantatie Quartet asked Anssi Mattila whether he would like to reconstruct the missing II violin part. The job was finished in 2004 and the Rantatie Quartet released a Classical Emma-winning disc of the Quartets in 2006.

This product includes the full score and the set of parts.

SKU: BR.KM-2418

World premiere of the complete version: Witten, April 27, 1991

ISBN 9790004501887. 10.5 x 14 inches.

There are two versions of this piece (two ways to perform it):- as a quartet- for two quartets playing simultaneously. In the latter case, the two quartets divide the staves of the page of a score in such a way that one quartet always plays the upper stave, the other quartet the lower. One of the two quartets can be taped beforehand in case it is impossible to make use of two quartets.(Adriana Holszky)CDs:Hangebrucken- Quartett I - Quartett II- DoppelquartettNomos-Quart ett; Pellegrini-QuartettCD cpo 999 112-2Bibliography:Blument aler, Volker: Adriana Holszky; Hangebrucken, in: Streifzuge. Werkkommentare zur Neuen Musik, Saarbrucken 2000, pp. 74-78.Brodsky, Seth: From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious, Oakland: University of California Press 2017, pp. 164-166, 262f.Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Antiklassisches, Rauschhaftes, Groteskes. Uberlegungen zu den Werken Hangebrucken und Message, in: Adriana Holszky, hrsg. von Eva-Maria Houben, Saarbrucken 2000, pp. 69-80.ders.: Fremdheit und Vertrautheit. Strategien der Wiederverwendung im Komponieren von Adriana Holszky, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 178 (2017), Heft 5, pp. 26-29.Holszky, Adriana: Wandernde Klangraume und die Korperlichkeit des Klanges, in: Neue Rundschau 132 (2021), Heft 1, S. 146-158Nonnenmann, Rainer: Die Quadratur des musikalischen Kreises. Aspekte des Streichquartettschaffens im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert, in: MusikTexte Heft 162 (August 2019), S. 91-98Schafer-Lembeck, Hans-Ulrich: Du baust dir eine Stadt . Uberlegungen zu Asthetik und Didaktik von Adriana Holszkys Hangebrucken, in: Neue Musik vermitteln. Analysen Interpretationen - Unterricht, hrsg. von Hans Bassler, Ortwin Nimczik und Peter W. Schatt, Mainz: Schott, 2004, pp. 265-285.Zeitler, Ulrich: Hangebrucken - Brucken zur Vergangenheit?, in: Musik und Unterricht 16 (1992), pp. 37-42.Zenck, Martin: Internationalitat und nationale Romantik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Zur Schubert-Rezeption in zwei Jahrhunderten, in: Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft 67 (2010), Heft 4, pp. 261-283.

World premiere of the complete version: Witten, April 27, 1991.

SKU: PR.11441345S

UPC: 680160608829. 8.5 x 11 inches.

BACH-SHARDS was commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet as part of their Art of the Fugue companion-piece project. Ran deliberately stays within the realm of Bach-like vocabulary, altering syntax in ways that add up to something slightly different from the anticipated sum of the parts. The work builds up to a climax that makes the entry point into Bach’s Contrapunctus X seem thoroughly natural.
While composing Bach-Shards I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal.  First, though the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like  contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I opted not to stray outside the realm of Bach-like materials and harmonic language.  Instead, it was my hope to alter their relationships and context in ways that add up to a something that’s slightly different than the anticipated sum of the parts.  A mildly deconstructed Bach, if you will.  The other important challenge I set for myself was building up the latter, toccata-like portion of Bach-Shards in a way that would make the entry point of the fugue which it precedes, Contrapunctus X, seem thoroughly natural.  It was my intent to have the first fugal entrance feel like a huge and much welcome release of the energy created by my Prelude’s penultimate stretch, with its bravura figurations elaborating on an insistent dominant pedal point.

SKU: HL.51487121

UPC: 840126946178. 6.75x9.5x0.299 inches.

After Volumes IV and III of the series with Mozart's complete string quartets appeared as Henle Urtext editions in early 2017 and 2019 respectively, Mozart expert Wolf-Dieter Seiffert now presents Volume II. Included are the “Early Viennese Quartets” from 1773, K. 168-173. Entries in the autograph manuscript by the composer's father Leopold, however, suggest that the ordering of the six works into a unified series of quartets was his doing. In his preface, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert shares brand-new findings on the actual chronology of the genesis of these quartets. Moreover, he succeeds in correcting what in prior editions were occasional inaccuracies in dynamics and articulation, thereby producing a new, assured musical text. With artistic input from the Armida Quartet, Volume II of the String Quartets also sets the benchmark in the Mozart Edition! Contents: String Quartet in F Major, K. 168 String Quartet in A Major, K. 169 String Quartet in C Major, K. 170 String Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 171 String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 172 String Quartet in D minor, K. 173.

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