Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.11441387S

Composed by Stacy Garrop. Classical. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed Summer 2008. 56 pages. Duration 31 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41387S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441387S).

UPC: 680160585694.

Havin g performed Garrop's String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels with much success, it is only natural that the Biava Quartet would handle the premiere of String Quartet No.3: Gaia. In an email interview with Pittsburgh New Music Net, Biava violist Mary Persin says, in part, We received many very enthusiastic responses from audience members who were struck by the interesting form, as well as the sonorities created by using a good deal of dissonance as well as harmonics. Watch for a recording by the Biava Quartet to be made available soon. For advanced performers. Duration: 32' 30.

Score and Parts Soprano; String Quartet (Score & Parts)

SKU: HL.48024678

String Quartet and Soprano Score and Parts. Composed by Martin Christoph Redel. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 104 pages. Duration 900 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202535141. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024678).

ISBN 9781540058546. UPC: 888680952525.

40 years lie between the composer's multiple award-winning String Quartet No. 2 and this new contribution to the genre. Martin Christoph Redel was motivated by the world's current political situation: by the violation of human rights, by war, torture, violence and expulsion. He includes a soprano part and responds to texts of the Tunisia-born poetess Najet Adouani who had to flee her home country several times herself because she had advocated human rights and freedom of speech there. In my throat nests the pain of all those to whom I lend a voice, is one of her statements that was set to music.

String quartet (solo, vln, vla, vc) - Moderately Difficult to Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193519602

Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Arranged by Martin Gerigk. String Quartets. Score for string quartet arrangement. 16 pages. Duration 15'. Oxford University Press #9780193519602. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193519602).

ISBN 9780193519602. 12 x 8 inches.

Vaughan Williams's romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement. Perfect as a rehearsal tool in preparation for a larger-scale orchestral concert, the arrangement is also ideal for performance in a chamber recital.

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.

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.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14036998

Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. 9 pages. Music Sales #KP00159. Published by Music Sales (HL.14036998).

ISBN 9788759864876. Danish.

Per Norgard THREE MINIATURES for string quartet (string quartet no. 3)The Three Miniatures for string quartet (composed 1959) has a consequent experimental structure that dictates every note in the three extremely short movements. Each member of the quartet thus plays his own little melody a certain (but different) number of times so that the brand new soundscopes constantly appear in spite of the unchanging parts, due to their different length. Per Norgard.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14035177

Composed by Kevin Volans. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 1999. 32 pages. Chester Music #CH61341. Published by Chester Music (HL.14035177).

ISBN 9780711979406. 8.25x11.75x0.142 inches.

Irish composer Kevin Volans' work has gained international acclaim over the years. Drawing on a combination of European and African compositional techniques, his music displays a unique charm. Volans' distinctive sound is heavily in demand, and since the mid-1980s his work has been performed regularly at such venues as the Pompidou Centre, the Royal Albert Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York. This work for string quartet was commissioned by the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and was first performed on the 16th December 1990 at the Almeida Theatre, London, by the Smith Quartet. Score. Parts available: CH61342.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.114415160

Composed by Samuel Adler. Premiere: The Esterhazy Quartet: Eva Szkely, Susan Jensen, Leslie Perna, Darry Dolezal; Columbia, MO. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2009. 48+20+16+16+12 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41516. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114415160).

UPC: 680160600892. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Adler's ninth turn at string quartet composition was written for the Esterhazy Quartet, who were pleased to perform the world premiere in April, 2009 with the composer in attendance. Violinist Susan Jensen described the work as energetic, spirited, humorous and celebratory. The premiere follows an all-Adler 80th birthday celebration by the Esterhazy in the previous year, so this new String Quartet No. 9 is a treat. Three of the four movements proceed at a fast pace, and the Quartet is for advanced performers.

(String Quartet)

SKU: HL.14021029

Music Sales America. 37 pages. Chester Music #CH7104901. Published by Chester Music (HL.14021029).

UPC: 884088492342. 8.25x11.75x0.215 inches.

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company, and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet, at St. Gregory's Centre, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, as part of the Sounds New Festival. Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

Score and Parts

SKU: HL.369769

Score and Parts. E.B. Marks. Softcover. 136 pages. Edward B. Marks Music #MP504014. Published by Edward B. Marks Music (HL.369769).

ISBN 9781705144572. UPC: 840126992489. 9.0x12.0x0.523 inches.

Julie Mandel, composer and lyricist, has written chamber music, opera, musical theater, popular and art songs, in addition to being Concert Director of the Long Island Composers' Alliance and the long-time Treasurer of New York Women Composers. Her String Quartet No. 3 received a Burton Award for Contemporary Music and was recorded by the Meridian String Quartet on their album “DIVERSE LIGHT.”.

String quartet String Quartet

SKU: PR.14440538S

For String Quartet. Composed by David Leisner. World Premiere: iO Quartet; Greenwich House, New York, NY. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 5-Dec. 8 pages. Duration 9 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40538S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.14440538S).

UPC: 680160589456.

Leisn er ponders life from nothingness, its force of presence, and its return to nothingness, using sustained strings and increasing/decreasing intensity as a basis upon which to build his impressions. The quartet progresses from near-silence to full-on life-force, before slowly dying away. For advanced performers. Duration: 9'.