Composed by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). Chamber/Ensemble. Score and parts. 52 pa...(+)
Composed by Rebecca
Clarke (1886-1979).
Chamber/Ensemble. Score
and parts. 52 pages.
Oxford University Press
#9780193867499. Published
by Oxford University
Press
String Quartet SKU: HL.14023641 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales Am...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14023641
Composed
by Michael Nyman. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Composed
1993. 80 pages. Chester
Music #CH61116. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14023641).
ISBN
9780711964082.
9.0x12.0x0.219
inches.
String
Quartet No.4 was written
for the Camilli Quartet
who gave the first
performance at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, London,
April 1995. It is
dedicated to the memory
of Nyman's composition
teacher, Alan Bush. This
quartet is a narrative
made up of a chain of
twelve complete but often
cross-related movements,
each quite simple in
design. For instance, the
Scottish melody first
heard in the second half
of I is hinted at in the
2nd violin/viola in the
second fast section of II
and is directly quoted
again during III and XII.
The theme of the fast
section of IV is taken up
again in VIII; IX reverts
to the mood of the
opening of I, while the
rising scale/syncopated
themes of II, IX and the
bass of X and XII are
related. X also
reintroduces the slow
harmonics theme from VII.
XII is (apparently) cast
in the form of a baroque
French rondeau. The main
theme of VI was plucked
out of the Quartet and
used in my score for
Christopher Hampton's
film Carrington. Duration
40 minutes. A set of
parts is available for
sale.
This product
includes the score and
the parts (A4 sized).
American-Finn
ish composer Alex Freeman
(b.1972) has established
himself among the
foremost composers of
choral music in Finland.
A dedicated citizen of
his musical community, a
teacher, and a choral
singer himself, he
composes music that
reflects an appreciation
for a wide range of
aesthetics and a passion
for communicating with
listeners and performers.
In his choral works, in
particular, we find music
that aims to be sonorous,
melodic, and resonant,
but is always crafted to
carefully avoid the
cliches that can burden
conventional tonality.
His instrumental
works run the gamut: a
cantata with orchestra
based on poetry of
Whitman; a significant
body of solo piano works
that reveal deep roots in
everything from austere
absolute music to soaring
elegaic rhetoric (see
Albany Records, Inner
Voice); his chamber work
Blueshift (Navona
Records), which is a kind
of paean to Reich and
Adams in miniature;
open-ended modular works,
like various iterations
of his Slow All Clocks
for electronic media,
solo clarinet, and mixed
choirs of kanteles; and,
recently, some new
directions in microtonal
music.
String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-574-3
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Score+parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-574-3.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3).
ISBN
9790550115743.
Kale
vi Aho (b.1949) was only
18 years old when he
completed his String
Quartet no. 1 in g minor
(1967). Nonetheless it
was already the second
one of its kind: the
earlier string quartet in
a minor got christened
String Quartet No. 0 and
banned from performing.
The g minor quartet was
heard the first time only
50 years after it was
born, when the Kamus
Quartet premiered it at
the Musica Kalevi Aho
Festival in Forssa on
June 28, 2019. In Aho's
home town, Forssa, it was
not possible to study
composition with a
teacher: My model in this
and the other works I
composed while I was at
school was all the mostly
tonal music I had
personally played on the
violin or heard on the
radio. The first
movement, Moderato,
begins in variation form,
until followed by a fugue
based on the variation
theme. The initially
lyrical second movement
has a quick, virtuosic
and light middle section.
The third movement is a
very quick scherzo that
becomes dramatic, and the
work ends with a
chorale-like finale. The
composer tells: When I
got to study composition
at the Sibelius Academy
in autumn 1968 and showed
the quartet to my
teacher, Einojuhani
Rautavaara, he said there
was no point my studying
tonal harmony and tonal
formal constructions any
longer; that I could do
the exams in them
straight away and start
the courses in modern
music resources there and
then..
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Johanna Senfter.
Edited by Wolfgang
Birtel. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. Op.
28. Duration 24'. Schott
Music #ED21076. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49019413).
ISBN
9790001176477. UPC:
841886016729.
The
composer Johanna Senfter
(1879 1961) from
Oppenheim concerned
herself with chamber
music for strings all her
life, even studied violin
in Frankfurt herself. Max
Reger then gave her
lessons in Leipzig, first
privately, then in his
composition class at the
conservatoire and valued
her 'extraordinary
compositional talent'.
The strict teacher more
and more became a
committed promoter of the
works by Johanna Senfter.
For a period of 50 years,
the composer concerned
herself with the string
quartet genre, from
Quartet No. 1 in D minor
Op. 4, composed shortly
after the turn of the
century, to the sixth and
last Quartet in C minor
Op. 115 which was
performed for the first
time in 1960, one year
before her death. The
Quartet in F sharp minor
Op. 28 is her second
quartet which was
premiered in Darmstadt on
5 November 1922. In this
work, as in later works,
Senfter combined
traditional form models -
here Baroque movements
like gavotte, saraband,
gigue - with expressive,
late Romantic musical
language. The work,
consisting of six short
movements, may without
doubt be regarded as a
valuable addition to the
quartet repertoire.