| IV. Streichquartett (2009) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Barenreiter
2 violins, viola, cello (Violins (2), Viola, Violoncello) SKU: BA.BA09378 ...(+)
2 violins, viola, cello
(Violins (2), Viola,
Violoncello) SKU:
BA.BA09378 Composed
by Manfred Trojahn.
Stapled. Score. Composed
2009. 43 pages. Duration
21 minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA09378_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA09378).
ISBN 9790006539086.
32.5 x 25.5 cm
inches. A modern
sequel to the music of
the Romantic era.
The first
movement hints at the
chromatic of
“Tristanâ€;
cantilena lines convey a
mournful scene. It is
succeeded by a brilliant
scherzo with the cryptic
title “Erste fremde
Szene†(First
Foreign/Unknown Scene
– one is invited
to solve this riddle),
while the third movement,
with its singing quality,
is related to the first.
The final movement, a
“Zweite fremde
Szeneâ€
(“Second
Foreign/Unknown
Sceneâ€), alludes to
the “last
dance†tradition,
with its ironic
undertones and the
copious use of sixths,
counterpointed with
tarantella rhythms.
A rewarding,
striking work, equally
valuable for concerts
combining older
compositions with new
works as for contemporary
music programmes.
$51.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114410380 Composed by Lowell Lieberm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.114410380 Composed
by Lowell Liebermann.
Saddle, Tape Junction.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
Composed 1998. Opus 60.
48 + 92 pages. Duration
30 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41038. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114410380). UPC:
680160015160. 9.5 x 13
inches. My second
String Quartet was
written twenty years
after the first, Opus 4
from 1978. The First
Quartet is an obsessively
contrapuntal work in one
movement, which was no
doubt influenced by my
studies with David
Diamond. I had always
intended to return to the
medium once I left the
astringency of my earlier
style, but it was only
when the National
Federation of Music Clubs
commissioned a major
chamber work, with
unspecified
instrumentation, to
celebrate their 100th
Anniversary that I was
enabled to do so. The
Second Quartet is in four
movements: Moderato,
Allegro isterico, an
Andante theme with 11
variations, and the
closing Allegro, which
then returns to the tempo
of the first movement. An
audience member at the
premiere told me that she
heard echoes of recent
tragic events such as the
Oklahoma bombing in this
work. While I had no such
programmatic intent while
writing the quartet, it
was not an entirely
incorrect assessment of
the work's intended
emotional impact. The
quartet is pervaded by a
sense of seriousness,
even mournfulness. The
second movement's scherzo
is an aggressively
animated piece of musical
machinery. The third
movement's Variations
unfold into a greater
variety of moods than the
others - but the moments
of lyricism are countered
by aggressive or ironic
outbursts. The final
movement's attempt at
triumph quickly subsides
into a return of the
first movement, before
being transformed onto a
sense of resignation and
acceptance as the
chromaticism of the
opening theme is
transformed into a pure
and diatonic C-Major. The
work received its world
premiere by the Shanghai
Quartet at the 100th
Anniversary Congress of
the National Federation
of Music Clubs at the
Congress Hotel in Chicago
on August 19th
1998. My second String
Quartet was written
twenty years after the
first, Opus 4 from
1978. The First
Quartet is an obsessively
contrapuntal work in one
movement, which was no
doubt influenced by my
studies with David
Diamond. I had always
intended to return to the
medium once I left the
astringency of my earlier
style, but it was only
when the National
Federation of Music Clubs
commissioned a major
chamber work, with
unspecified
instrumentation, to
celebrate their 100th
Anniversary that I was
enabled to do so.The
Second Quartet is in four
movements:Â Moderato,
Allegro isterico, an
Andante theme with 11
variations, and the
closing Allegro, which
then returns to the tempo
of the first movement.An
audience member at the
premiere told me that she
heard echoes of recent
tragic events such as the
Oklahoma bombing in this
work. While I had no
such programmatic intent
while writing the
quartet, it was not an
entirely incorrect
assessment of the
work’s intended
emotional impact. The
quartet is pervaded by a
sense of seriousness,
even mournfulness.Â
The second
movement’s scherzo
is an aggressively
animated piece of musical
machinery. The third
movement’s
Variations unfold into a
greater variety of moods
than the others –
but the moments of
lyricism are countered by
aggressive or ironic
outbursts. The final
movement’s attempt
at triumph quickly
subsides into a return of
the first movement,
before being transformed
onto a sense of
resignation and
acceptance as the
chromaticism of the
opening theme is
transformed into a pure
and diatonic C-Major.The
work received its world
premiere by the Shanghai
Quartet at the 100th
Anniversary Congress of
the National Federation
of Music Clubs at the
Congress Hotel in Chicago
on August 19th 1998. $185.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Haze and the Absence. Vc & Str Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Stainer and Bell
Voice & String Quartet SKU: ST.Y296 Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber mus...(+)
Voice & String Quartet
SKU: ST.Y296
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Chamber music. For High
Voice, String Quartet and
Piano. Score (2 copies
supplied) and parts.
Score and parts. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y296.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y296).
ISBN
9790220223525. Natu
re and landscape have
been the dominant themes
of much of Rhian Samuel's
vocal music of the last
ten years, projected
chiefly through the
poetry of Anne Stevenson,
and in her most recent
song-settings, the
writings of the
Pakistan-born Texas-based
poet Zulfikar Ghose. His
poem 'Conspiracy of the
Clouds' describes how,
the clouds having chosen
to become invisible,
'Even the astronauts on
the space shuttle /
looked down on a
cloudless America' as
hurricanes ravage
Louisiana and storms
engulf Nebraska. An
intriguing conceit in the
tradition of magic
realism, the text is
presented as a scena
lasting around 16
minutes, with
interpolations from
'Haze' by the
nineteenth-century New
England transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau. Thus
modern fable and romantic
nature-description are
juxtaposed, and their
interaction becomes the
source of musical
contrasts too. Thoreau's
words are assigned
predominantly to the
vocalist's highest
register, those of Ghose
to her lower tessitura;
and the suggestive and
dramatic accompaniment
builds tension steadily
to the final ironic
response of an
incredulous American
public: not one of awe
and wonder, but the
question 'Why weren't we
told about it? $56.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Burlesca Iberica Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Editorial de Musica Boileau
By Jordi Cervello. For String quartet or string quintet. Instrumental Sets. Dura...(+)
By Jordi Cervello. For
String quartet or string
quintet. Instrumental
Sets. Duration 6:00.
Published by Editorial de
Musica Boileau
$42.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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