By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Edited by Hilf. For 2 violin, viola, violoncello. Op.22(F). Published by C.F. Peters.

Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), edited by Arno Hilf. Op. 11. Set of performance parts for violin I, violin II, viola and cello. With standard notation, bowings and fingerings. 59 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.

String quartet

SKU: BO.B.3664

Composed by Jordi Cervello. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.B.3664).

Cuarteto San Petersburgo (The Saint Petersburg Quartet) was written between January and March 2011. It owes its name to the fact that Saint Petersburg has been a very significant city for me. I was invited there in 1988 to take part in a big contemporary music festival, but my uninterrupted bond with the city started on 2002, thanks to the negotiations of my friend and pupil Albert Barbeta. Since then, I have constantly travelled there in order to record a considerable part of my repertoire: seventeen pieces. In addition to the concerts we went to, I took the opportunity during my trips to visit the well-known conservatoire where so many great personalities from the world of music composition once taught, and the place that launched the most important violin school in the whole of Russia: the school of Leopoldo Auer. Spending a long time in Auer's classroom writing my concert for violin and orchestra was an unforgettable experience for me. His large portrait motivated me even further.

Cuartet o San Petersburgo evokes many of the most cherished and moving moments that I have had in this city. It is structured in four movements. The first one, Allegretto-Allegro, opens with an introduction that sets forth the two main themes, amid a soft and elastic atmosphere. The Allegro starts vigorously and in it we find changes in the tempo and moments of mystery, as well as certain seclusion, returning then to the emphatic theme where the counterpoint finds its place. The movement ends placidly.

The Scherzo-marcato that follows is marked by a persistent rhythm of triplets that carries on from beginning to end. The tempo does not change, but brief and decided themes are introduced, as well as passages of counterpoint. Brief and dissonant chords are heard throughout the movement, which ends vigorously.

The third movement, Ut, is a very special one. For a while already I had been playing with the idea of writing a movement that was to have the tonality C as a leitmotiv. This one is made up by two slow and static parts. In the first one, the first violin plays pizzicatti-glissandi. In the second, the first violin and particularly the violoncello settle on C while the other two instruments produce descending chromatic harmonies.

Final ly, the Introduccion-Presto (the Introduction-Presto). It starts with some bucolic passages which remind us of the introduction to the first movement. A fast and energetic Presto suddenly erupts. A kind of moto perpetuo which alternates with two expressive passages and, towards the end, a viola and violoncello tremolo, all of great mystery and expectation, make way for a resounding finale marcato.

By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Edited by Hilf. For 2 violin, viola, violoncello. Op.30(e|). Published by C.F. Peters.

String Quartet Violin

SKU: PE.EP71899

Composed by James Dillon. String Quartets. Peters Contemporary Library. Book. 36 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP71899. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP71899).

ISBN 9790577004402. English.

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Rebecca Saunders
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Charles Wuorinen

These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike.

Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.

String Quartet string quartet

SKU: PE.EP6623

1961. Composed by Roger Reynolds. String Quartets. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score. Composed 1961; First Performance: 31 July 1961 Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox Quartet. 28 pages. Duration 00:13:00. Edition Peters #98-EP6623. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6623).

ISBN 9790300719283.

4 scores needed for performance

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By Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Moser, Dechert. For 2 violin, viola, violoncello. Op.1,Nos.1-6(B|,E|,D,G,B| ,C); Op.2,Nos.1-6(A,E,E|,F,D,B |); Op.3,Nos.1,2,4,6(E,C,B|,A ); Op.20,(Sun)Nos.1-3(E|,C,g ); Op.33,(Quartets with Scherzi)(Jungfern,Bird or Russian)Nos.1,4,5,(b,B|;G ,How do you do?); Op.51,(Seven Last Words):Introduction(d); 7 Sonata. Published by C.F. Peters.

String Quartet and Baritone Voice; Violin; Viola; Cello - Advanced

SKU: PE.EP72862

For Baritone and String Quartet. Composed by Sally Beamish and Words by Fiona Sampson. Quartet; Single Titles; Solo Small Ensembles. Edition Peters. Classical. Score and Part(s). 92 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP72862. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72862).

ISBN 9790577020624.

< em>Tree Carols by Sally Beamish is a collection of songs for Baritone and String Quartet setting poems by Fiona Sampson that deal with the topic of trees. It was commissioned by the University of Warwick and written for the Coull Quartet and Roderick Williams who premiered the work at the Warwick Arts Centre on 5 March 2014.

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For String Quartet. Composed by Emily Howard. Quartet; Solo Small Ensembles; String Quartet. Peters Contemporary Chamber Series. Classical; Contemporary. Score and Part(s). 108 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP73579. Published by Edition Peters

Tenor & String Quartet

SKU: PE.EP72822

Composed by Jonathan Dove. Voice(s) & Various Instruments. Edition Peters. Living Composer. Score and Part(s). 164 pages. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #98-EP72822. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP72822).

ISBN 9790577011769. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

I have only visited Damascus once, twenty years ago, on the way to Palmyra.  I had a purpose (I was writing music for a play about Palmyra’s Queen Zenobia) but essentially I was a tourist.  Like any visitor, I was thrilled to step out of the noisy modern city into the magical ancient world of the walled Old City, its vibrant souk leading to the magnificent mosque, and a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets filled with the smell of unleavened bread.

In Palmyra, I was met with extraordinary kindness everywhere.  On one occasion, a little Bedouin boy noticed that I was risking sunstroke wandering bare-headed among the spectacular ruins: he showed me how to tie a turban, then took me to have tea with his family in their tent.

Since then, I have watched helplessly as these places of wonder have been devastated and their inhabitants scattered and killed.  When the Sacconi Quartet suggested that I might choose a Syrian poet for our collaboration, I welcomed the idea.

I searched for a long time to find a contemporary poet whose work might gain from any music I could imagine.  I felt it was important to find first-hand accounts of the Syrian experience – but, of course, I was always reading them in translation.  In an anthology called Syria Speaks, I was astonished to read something that looked like prose, but was full of poetry.  It was Anne-Marie McManus’s fine translation of Ali Safar’s A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky – an eloquent, thoughtful, contained yet vivid account of life in a war-torn country, all the more moving for its restraint.

In setting these words, I have not attempted to imitate Syrian music.  However, there is what might be called a linguistic accommodation in my choice of scale, or mode.  Several movements are in a mode that I first discovered while writing a cantata commemorating the First World War: it has a tuning that I associate with war, its violence and desolation.  This eight-note mode is similar to scales found in Syrian music.  I did not choose it in the abstract: it emerged from the harmonies I was exploring in the earlier work, and emerged again as I was looking for the right musical colours to set Ali Safar’s words.  In this work, its Arabic aspect is more prominent. - Jonathan Dove

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String Quartet Violin; Cello; Viola; Bass

SKU: PE.EP67665A

Composed by T.J. Andersen. Quartet; Single Titles; String Quartet. Edition Peters. Set of parts. 76 pages. Duration 00:22:00. Edition Peters #98-EP67665A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP67665A).

ISBN 9790300743233.

Full Score: EP 67665

Set of Parts

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