[COPYRIGHT RETURNED TO
COMPOSER]. Composed
by Edward Cowie. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Softcover. 76
pages. Duration 15'.
Schott Music #ED13391.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49018856).
ISBN
9790220133244. UPC:
884088675028.
9.0x12.0x0.204
inches.
Although
this is technically
Cowie's seventh string
quartet, it replaces his
earlier fourth quartet,
which he came to feel no
longer fit with his
compositional voice. The
quartet fluctuates
between a slow, luminous
sound and fast, agitated
music. Unlike much of
Cowie's work, this music
is abstracted from his
usual preoccupation with
the natural world,
turning instead to look
at an inner landscape.
The composer describes
the emotional force
behind his quartet: The
year 2009 was a terrible
year in which I lost
three close friends to
cancer and an elder
brother to Alzheimer's
disease. It was also a
year in which my wife was
diagnosed with breast
cancer; something from
which she has thankfully
made a great recovery. At
times like these,
emotions are sorely
tested and highlighted.
Four people I loved have
gone, so this music must
remain as testament not
to death, but to the
magnificent fragility and
loveliness of life. It
closes with a gentle and
almost vaporising
'benediction' a kind of
'amen' if you like.
Composed
by Leos Janacek. Edited
by Leoš Faltus and
Miloš Štedron. This
edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Complete Critical
Edition of the Works of
Leos Janacek E/4.
Complete edition, Score,
Set of parts. Composed
1928. No. 2. Duration 26
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA06857_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA06857).
ISBN 9790260100503.
34.3 x 27 cm
inches.
Janácek
€™s 2nd String
Quartet, “Intimate
Lettersâ€, is
regarded as a highlight
of the modern string
quartet literature. It
was written during the
composer’s last
year of life, between 29
January and 19 February
1928, inspired by the
ageing
Janácek’s
exceptional love for
Kamila Stösslová.
The Moravian Quartet
devoted themselves to
this impressive work;
Janácek attended a
total of three of their
rehearsals in May and
June 1928. This had
several consequences,
including his abandoning
his original idea of
using a viola
d’amore.
Af
ter Janácek’s
unexpected death (12
August 1928) the
uncertain genesis of the
work became the greatest
problem of the
“Intimate
Lettersâ€: the
surviving copies were not
definitively
authorised.
The
editors of this new
edition have reverted to
Janácek’s
autograph sketches as the
main, most reliable
source and using these as
a basis, have
reconstructed the work as
it stood at the point of
Janácek’s
death.
The musical
text therefore contains
clear differences in
comparison with older
editions.
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