Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sorensen (1988) Premiered ...(+)
Parts for String Quartet
No.3 'Angel's Music' by
Bent Sorensen (1988)
Premiered by the Arditti
String Quartet at the
Danish Radio Concert Hall
16 November 1988. Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angels Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on Angels
Music was started in
Rome, where I spent the
autumn of 1987 staying at
The Danish Academy.
Whether this stay has
influenced the quartet or
not is impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part ofthe
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of Angels
Music is divided into
three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the small
cells into the general
pattern.'
String Quartet SKU: HL.14030980 Parts. Composed by Bent Sorensen. ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14030980
Parts. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Set of Parts. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00249.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030980).
ISBN
9788759871973.
12.0x16.0x0.285
inches.
Score
available: KP00250 The
composer writes: 'Even
when I was writing Adieu,
I knew that I wished to
write Angel's Music. The
title existed in an
incomplete form in my
mind and gradually more
and more ideas and a few
outlines became clear.
The actual work on
Angel's Music was started
in Rome, where I spent
the autumn of 1987
staying at The Danish
Academy. Whether this
stay has influenced the
quartet or not is
impossible to say.
however, it is true to
say that, in the Roman
churches I visited, I saw
countless angels playing
in the top of frescoes
and altars. Without these
angels, together with the
many crackled-gold
paintings in this city
and my general
fascination with the
Italian renaissance
painter Fra Angelico, (in
fact there are only a few
paintings by him in Rome,
but even his name..!) I
am not sure my quartet
would have been what it
is. Anyway I do feel that
there is a bit of Italy
in the piece. The angels
apart there are, in the
short rhythmic agitating
part of the quartet,
reminiscences of the
Italian medieval Trotto
dance, and in the most
expressive part of the
piece there are flashes
of Puccini-like music.
From the very beginning
of my work on the
quartet, the distant,
extremely muted sound in
the high register which
opens the piece, was on
my mind. A sound satiated
with a dense heterophonic
and polyphonic texture of
elegiac melody and
vibrating trills. I
imagined that little
songs (maybe angel songs)
could be created in this
density, these songs
constantly echoing
themselves. Gradually as
this sound got a more and
more concrete musical and
instrumental form, I
felt, that not only
should the little songs
be created, played and
die out in an echo, but
also that the general
pattern of the quartet
should give the feeling
of music which, from the
distance, is getting
closer and closer,
culminates and at last
disappears like an echo.
Related to this, the
general pattern of
Angel's Music is divided
into three: a pre-echo,
culmination and echo..
The relationship between
the three part is 5: 6:
4. The reason why I can
say this precisely and
prosaically is that it
was necessary to me to
mark the overall
guidelines before I
started to compose. I had
to do this in order to
enable the relationships
to crawl from the general
pattern almost
fractionally into the
smallest cells of the
music, or more correctly;
crawl from the small
cells into the general
pattern.'.
String Quartet SKU: IS.CM7585EM Composed by Guy Cuyvers. Chamber Music. M...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
IS.CM7585EM
Composed
by Guy Cuyvers. Chamber
Music. Metropolis Music
Publishers #CM7585EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.CM7585EM).
ISBN
9790365075850.
Guy
Cuyvers is a very
versatile musician. As a
classical guitar player
he has been acclaimed by
Angel Romero and the
international press
unanimously praises his
film scores. After
graduating at the Royal
Flemish Conservatory in
Antwerp and supplementing
his training in guitar,
advanced composition and
orchestra conducting at
The American University
in Washington D.C., Guy
received his Master of
Arts at the LUCA School
of Arts. As a composer,
Guy wrote several books
for classical guitar and
film music for Warner
Bros. Besides writing for
film and guitar, he
composed numerous works
in all domains of music.
For more information on
Guy Cuyvers:
www.guycuyvers.com.
The Named Angels Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Peermusic Classical
(String Quartet). Composed by Mohammed Fairouz. For String Quartet (Score and Pa...(+)
(String Quartet).
Composed by Mohammed
Fairouz. For String
Quartet (Score and
Parts). Peermusic
Classical. Peermusic
#70089-759. Published by
Peermusic
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-639-9 Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Sco...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-639-9
Composed by Einojuhani
Rautavaara. Score +
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-639-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-639-9).
ISBN
9790550116399.
New
Urtext edition (2020) of
Einojuhani Rautavaara's
String Quartet No. 1 is
based on the composer's
manuscript, incorporating
corrections and comments
by composer's hand in
various sources.
Einojuhani Rautavaara
(1928-2016) was one of
Finland's internationally
most successful
composers. He made his
major breakthrough with
the Seventh Symphony,
Angel of Light, in the
1990s, but his output
includes numerous classic
operas, concertos,
chamber music works and
choral works. Over his
extensive career, he
progressed from
Neo-Classicism to strict
dodecaphony to free-tonal
Neo-Romanticism. His
catalogue of influences
over the decades includes
Orthodox liturgical music
and Finnish fiddlers.
Rautavaara's first string
quartet (1953) is from
his Neo-Classical early
period when he composed
only little chamber
music. Stravinsky and the
Finnish folk music are
present in the rhythmical
first movement; later
enters a characteristic
scale alternating half
and whole steps. After
the Slavic romanticism of
the slow movement Andante
the fiddler is back in
the cheerful Gigue.
Score and Parts String Quartet (String Quartet) SKU: HL.290388 String ...(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (String Quartet)
SKU: HL.290388
String Quartet Score
and Parts. Composed
by John Luther Adams.
Music Sales America.
Softcover. Composed 2015.
40 pages. Chester Music
#CH85888/01. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.290388).
UPC:
888680922399.
This
the string quartet
version, now available
with score and parts, was
commissioned by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Association with Gustavo
Dudamel as Music
Director.