String Quartet, Accordion

SKU: BT.WHKP01684

Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Classical. Score Only. 32 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WHKP01684. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (BT.WHKP01684).

English.

Three Little Nocturnes was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2005. Commissioned by the Cikada Ensemble, with support from NOMUS, and written for Frode Haltli and the Cikada String Quartet. Programme Note: In the first nocturne a slow, falling music emerges on an irregular pulse, filled with high harmonics in the strings. The second nocturne is fast and unrestful music, with a lot of passion, which in a moment runs into a glimpse of a tango. In this movement the accordion is employed in its traditional fashion, using the chord bass, with its “oom-pah-pah” standard chords. The third nocturne is again slow, indeed very slow, and it has German tempo and expression markings. Thepiece ends with a lullaby in the accordion, played with an unusual technique, imitating the string portato. This is accompanied by high harmonics in the strings, while the first violin slowly and softly plays a melody from the second nocturne. Hans Abrahamsen.

String Quartet (bsn,vl,va,vc)

SKU: BR.MR-1165

Composed by Johann Christian Vogel. Edited by William Waterhouse. Chamber music; stapled. Musica Rara. Early classical. Score and parts. 48 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #MR 1165. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.MR-1165).

ISBN 9790004481011. 9 x 12 inches.

His works also include a quantity of instrumental music, much of it for wind instruments. For bassoon he wrote several concertos, 6 duets and a set of 3 quartets published by Leduc as Opus 5. The present edition is based on an early set of manuscript parts preserved in the Bischofliches Ordinariats-Archiv, Eichstatt, Germany. Phrasing and expression marks have been sparingly added, lang appoggiaturas written out and obvious mistakes corrected.