Music Of Our Time. Par BRYARS GAVIN. “Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as the original version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which finds its way into the quartet comes from my work with groups from the world of early music, particularly from the experience of writing for a consort of viols …. In several places I ask for little or no vibrato from the strings, occasionally preferring open strings and natural harmonics to stopped notes.”/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par CASABLANCAS BENET. The String Quartet no. 4, subtitled 'Dedication', was commissioned by the CNDM of Madrid to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven and was written for, and dedicated to, the Cuarteto Casals (2017). This one-movement work,lasting some 11 minutes, is based on a small motif from the op quartet. 130 as a tribute to the German master. The work, that explores the full range of the technical, musical, and emotional scope of the quartet medium, has aternary arrangement, with a slow introduction and a conclusive stretta on the B-flat note (like the one that opens Op. 130). Its course includes marked contrasts between the contemplative, lyrical, static and suspensive sections -in the manner of stagnations - and those with a more lively tempo, playful and occasionally festive./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Un travail différent de 'Rhapsody in Blue ', le' Concerto pour piano en fa 'ou d'autres oeuvres de concert, mais une' charmante 'pièce, a admis Ira Gershwin, frère de l'écrivain et le texte de George Gershwin (1898-1937). En fait, 'Lullaby' la mise en quatuor à cordes est une oeuvre exceptionnelle: en dehors des 'Short Story' pour violon et piano la seule oeuvre originale de musique de chambre du compositeur, sans compter les oeuvres pour piano seulement. Gershwin fait un nom pour lui-même avec des comédies musicales, 'Porgy and Bess' de l'opéra jazz, des chansons, des pièces orchestrales comme 'Un Américain à Paris' ou 'Rhapsody', mais en 1919/1920, il a eu le temps pour ce petit travail occasionnel qui a été créée plusieurs fois dans un cadre privé et dont le thème qu'il a utilisé dans son travail sur scène 'Blue Monday' en 1922. Ce n'est que plusieurs années plus tard, le 29 Octobre 1967, il a été exécuté publiquement lors d'un concert pour la première fois. Il s'agit d'une charmante miniature, avec des effets sonores et délicieux accents puissants - un atout précieux pour le répertoire du quatuor. / Quatuor A Cordes

Although Schumann's first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838/39 were only fragments, the three String Quartets op. 41 in a minor, F major and A major were written in one go in June/July 1842. At the first private performances the audience was enthusiastic and it was Mendelssohn's praise in particular that occasioned Schumann to dedicate the new works to him. The composer wrote to his publisher in an appropriately confident manner: 'Be assured, I have spared no pains in creating something very decent, indeed I sometimes think it is my best?. As is generally known, today Schumann's Opus 41 forms part of the core repertoire for quartet players. / Quatuor A Cordes