String quartet
SKU:
HH.HH279-FSP
Composed
by Timothy Raymond.
String Quartet. Full
score and parts. Duration
18 minutes. Edition HH
Music Publishers
#HH279-FSP. Published by
Edition HH Music
Publishers
(HH.HH279-FSP).
ISBN
9790708092292.
A
mysterious quality lies
at the heart of Timothy
Raymond's acclaimed
String Quartet, first
performed in 2007.
Niggling motifs emerge
from a dreamlike
continuum of harmonic
glissandos, sparking a
succession of adventurous
and unpredictable
developments that are by
turn tentative,
unsettling, determined,
energetic, emphatic,
furious and lyrical, and
characterized by highly
varied, idiomatic string
writing. The piece
pursues a latter day
expressionist path
towards, and away from, a
sustained and intimately
poised centre, the whole
reflecting the composer's
own colourful synthesis,
distillation and
development of
contemporary
composition.