| String Quartetts No. 1 d minor op. 77 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
String quartet string quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-8939 Urtext. ...(+)
String quartet string
quartet (2vl,va,vc)
SKU: BR.EB-8939
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. This
edition: Urtext. Chamber
music; Folder. Edition
Breitkopf.
Orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern:
The two captivating
quartets are now
available as Urtext
editions. Romantic
period. Set of parts. 88
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 8939.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8939).
ISBN
9790004186084. With
his first String Quartet
in D minor, op. 77,
composed in 1855, the
native Swiss composer
Joachim Raff bid a
brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality. $61.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Fennica Gehrman
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
FG.55011-574-3
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Score+parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-574-3.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3).
ISBN
9790550115743. Kale
vi Aho (b.1949) was only
18 years old when he
completed his String
Quartet no. 1 in g minor
(1967). Nonetheless it
was already the second
one of its kind: the
earlier string quartet in
a minor got christened
String Quartet No. 0 and
banned from performing.
The g minor quartet was
heard the first time only
50 years after it was
born, when the Kamus
Quartet premiered it at
the Musica Kalevi Aho
Festival in Forssa on
June 28, 2019. In Aho's
home town, Forssa, it was
not possible to study
composition with a
teacher: My model in this
and the other works I
composed while I was at
school was all the mostly
tonal music I had
personally played on the
violin or heard on the
radio. The first
movement, Moderato,
begins in variation form,
until followed by a fugue
based on the variation
theme. The initially
lyrical second movement
has a quick, virtuosic
and light middle section.
The third movement is a
very quick scherzo that
becomes dramatic, and the
work ends with a
chorale-like finale. The
composer tells: When I
got to study composition
at the Sibelius Academy
in autumn 1968 and showed
the quartet to my
teacher, Einojuhani
Rautavaara, he said there
was no point my studying
tonal harmony and tonal
formal constructions any
longer; that I could do
the exams in them
straight away and start
the courses in modern
music resources there and
then.. $60.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| String Quartets Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.PB-5622-07 Urtext. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc) SKU:
BR.PB-5622-07
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). With
his first String Quartet
in D minor, op. 77,
composed in 1855, the
native Swiss composer
Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
bid a brilliant farewell
to Weimar. Romantic
period. Study Score. 176
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5622-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-5622-07). ISBN
9790004215197. 6.5 x 9
inches. With his
first String Quartet in D
minor, op. 77, composed
in 1855, the native Swiss
composer Joachim Raff bid
a brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality. $55.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| String Quartets Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet SKU: BR.PB-5622 Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. E...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
BR.PB-5622
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Romantic
period. Study Score.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
5622. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-5622). ISBN
9790004215197. 6.5 x 9
inches. With his
first String Quartet in D
minor, op. 77, composed
in 1855, the native Swiss
composer Joachim Raff bid
a brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality. $55.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| Harbor Music Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
String Quartet SKU: PR.16400222S Composed by Dan Welcher. Full score (stu...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
PR.16400222S Composed
by Dan Welcher. Full
score (study). With
Standard notation.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00222S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16400222S). UPC:
680160037841. This
work follows my Quartet
No. 1 by five years. In
terms of style and
aesthetic aim, however,
it seems light years
away. Where the first
work, a 28-minute,
four-movement piece, took
aim at cosmic conflicts
and heroic resolutions,
the present work is
intended as a kind of
divertissment. Harbor
Music lasts a mere eleven
minutes, is cast in a
single movement with six
sections, and should
leave both performers and
listeners with a feeling
of good humor and
affection. The
title comes from my
experience as a guest in
the magnificent city of
Sydney, Australia. One of
its most attractive
features is its unique
system of ferry boats:
the city is laid out
around a large,
multi-channeled harbor,
with destinations more
easily approached by
water than by land.
Consequently, inhabitants
of Sydney get around on
small, people-friendly
boats that come and go
from the central docks at
Circular Quay. During a
week's visit in 1991, I
must have boarded these
boats at least a dozen
times, always bound for a
new location - the resort
town of Manley, or the
Zoo at Taronga Park, or
the shopping district at
Darling Harbour.
In casting about for a
form for my second string
quartet, a kind of loose
rondo came to mind. Each
new destination would be
approached from the same
starting-out point
(although there are
subtle variations in the
repeating theme; it's
always in a new key, and
the texture is never the
same). The result, I
hope, is a sense of
constant new information
presented with
introductory frames of a
more familiar nature.
The embarkation
theme, which begins the
piece, is a sort of
bi-tonal fanfare in which
the violins are in G
major and the viola and
cello are in B-flat
major. It is bold, eager,
and forward-looking. The
first voyage maintains
this bi-tonality,
beginning as a 9/8 due
for second violin and
viola in a kind of
rocking motion -much as a
boat produces when
reaching the deeper water
in the harbor. A sweet,
nostalgic theme emerges
over this rocking
accompaniment. This music
is developed somewhat,
then transforms quickly
into a much faster and
lighter episode, filled
with rising and falling
scales (again, in
differing keys). A
scherzando interlude in
short notes and changing
meters provides contrast,
and the episode ends with
a reprise of the scales.
The second
embarkation follows, this
time in A major/C major.
It leads quickly into a
very warm and slow theme,
in wide-leaping intervals
for the viola. This
section is interrupted
twice by solo cadenzas
for the cello, suggesting
distant boat-horns in
major thirds. The end of
the episode becomes a
transition, with
boat-horns leading into
the final appearance of
the embarkation music,
this time in trills and
tremolos instead of
sharply accented chords.
The nostalgic theme of
the first episode makes a
final appearance, serving
now as a coda. The
rocking motion continues,
in a lullaby fashion,
leaving us drowsy and
satisfied on our homeward
journey. Harbor
Music was written for the
Cavani Quartet, and is
dedicated to Richard J.
Bogomolny. Commissioned
by his employees at First
National Supermarkets as
a gift, it represents a
thank you from many of
the people (including
this composer) who have
benefitted from his
vision and generosity. An
ardent advocate of
chamber music (and a
cellist himself), Mr.
Bogomolny has for many
years been Chairman of
the Board of Chamber
Music America. -- Dan
Welcher. $25.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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