| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440265S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.14440265S Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Large Score. With
Standard notation.
Duration 25 minutes.
Merion Music #144-40265S.
Published by Merion Music
(PR.14440265S). UPC:
680160027910. The
Second and Third Quartets
were conceived at the
same time; indeed, their
composition intermingled,
over half of No. 3 being
sketched before No. 2 was
completed. Accordingly,
they share similar
material but, like the
intertwining blood of
cousins, their natures
differ: No. 2 being
somewhat acerbic and
declamatory, No. 3 more
lyric and gentler. An
annunicatory 'leaping
motive' (derived from a
motto generated by my
name) opens Quartet No. 2
and inhabits the course
of the piece as a
cyclical binding-force. A
five-note motive, usually
very deliberate, also
keeps recurring like an
insistent caller. All
three movements are based
on tonal centers (I on B
and E, II on D, III on C)
and the harmonic
'grammar' spoken tends to
recall the jazz world of
my youth. To hopefully
achieve a certain
classical ambience was
one of the goals of this
piece, and all three
movements have
traditional forms. The
first movement is a
modified Sonata-Allegro
design, with a
severely-truncated
recapitulation balanced
by a lengthy, and
decaying Coda. The second
movement is a set of
strophic variants and an
epilogue interspersed
with both solo ritornelli
and first-movement
material (the motto and
the five-note motive) in
the nature of a
fantasia-like
'call-and-response.' It
is dedicated to the
memory of the American
mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. The third
movement is a modified
Rondo (ABACBA) which
evolves out of the
opening motto. All three
movements make much use
of canonic stretti,
similar gestures, and
repetition. For example,
the climax of movement
III's Rondo throws the
first movement back at us
again, as if the players
were reluctant to let it
go, so that the entire
piece could perhaps be
viewed as a single large,
extended, Sonata
movement, with
introduction and
Coda. The Second and
Third Quartets were
conceived at the same
time; indeed, their
composition intermingled,
over half of No. 3 being
sketched before No. 2 was
completed.Â
Accordingly, they share
similar material but,
like the intertwining
blood of cousins, their
natures differ: No. 2
being somewhat acerbic
and declamatory, No. 3
more lyric and gentler.An
annunicatory
‘leaping
motive’ (derived
from a motto generated by
my name) opens Quartet
No. 2 and inhabits the
course of the piece as a
cyclical
binding-force. A
five-note motive, usually
very deliberate, also
keeps recurring like an
insistent caller. All
three movements are based
on tonal centers (I on B
and E, II on D, III on C)
and the harmonic
‘grammar’
spoken tends to recall
the jazz world of my
youth.To hopefully
achieve a certain
classical ambience was
one of the goals of this
piece, and all three
movements have
traditional forms.Â
The first movement is a
modified Sonata-Allegro
design, with a
severely-truncated
recapitulation balanced
by a lengthy, and
decaying Coda. The
second movement is a set
of strophic variants and
an epilogue interspersed
with both solo ritornelli
and first-movement
material (the motto and
the five-note motive) in
the nature of a
fantasia-like
‘call-and-response.
’ It is
dedicated to the memory
of the American
mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. The third
movement is a modified
Rondo (ABACBA) which
evolves out of the
opening motto.All three
movements make much use
of canonic stretti,
similar gestures, and
repetition. For
example, the climax of
movement III’s
Rondo throws the first
movement back at us
again, as if the players
were reluctant to let it
go, so that the entire
piece could perhaps be
viewed as a single large,
extended, Sonata
movement, with
introduction and
Coda. $85.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 4 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114414250 Composed by Lowell Lieberm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.114414250 Composed
by Lowell Liebermann.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard Notation. Op.
103. 28+9+8+9+8 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41425. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114414250). UPC:
680160607846. Lowel
l Liebermann's 4th String
Quartet was commissioned
by the Canandaigua Lake
Chamber Music Festival
and the Wood Library,
Canandaigua, NY, for the
Orion Quartet in
celebration of their 20th
Anniversary. The quartet
was premiered by the
Orions at the Canandaigua
Lake Chamber Music
Festival in Rochester, NY
on February 9th, 2008. To
quote the writer Mark
Greenberg: It's a
remarkable piece. The
mood is elegiacal and
meditative, the melodic
lines sinuous and
searching, the harmonies
rich and astonishingly
beautiful. Liebermann
works within the
traditions of Western
tonality, but that is a
mansion with many rooms.
Liebermann inhabits all
of them as his expressive
purposes require, and he
doesn't mind knocking
down a wall to create new
harmonic spaces. The
Fourth Quartet doesn't
exactly fit the
neoromantic niche into
which Liebermann is
sometimes placed. Much of
the music, especially
near the beginning, is a
highly advanced and fluid
chromatic expressionism
with modernist
tendencies. Sometimes
this roiling cloudscape
breaks open to allow a
patch of near-classical
harmony and
almost-resolution. Near
the midpoint the clouds
lift in leaping
modulations. Several
chordal passages recall
Russian Orthodox chant.
Suddenly, when you've
begun to think the
somber, deliberate pace
has gone on a bit too
long, Liebermann
introduces a kind of
hobbled, stilted jazz
idiom. The piece dies in
pensive quiet. $43.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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