Voyage for String Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440572S Composed by Ellen Taaffe Z...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440572S
Composed
by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Sws. Premiere: South
Mountain Concerts,
Pittsfield, MA; Saint
Lawrence String Quartet.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2012. 16 pages.
Duration 12 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40572S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440572S).
ISBN
9781598066029. UPC:
680160617685. 9x12
inches.
When the
family heirs to the
legendary Galimir String
Quartet (three sisters
and a brother) gathered
to commemorate the
centenary birth years of
these famed performers,
they chose Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich to commission for
this honor. The composer,
who has also worked
professionally as a
violinist, responded with
a one-movement odyssey
entitled Voyage,
cross-breeding her own
characteristic style with
glimpses of Viennese
waltzes and other Galimir
flavor. There is a sweet,
sad lyricism to this
work, a hectic
discord..., some wailing
and moaning, these moods
alternating with dancing
klezmer rhythms of Jewish
wedding music that take
over and make things
right in the end.
(Stanley Fefferman,
BachTrack.com).
Cello, Viola, 2 Violins SKU: HU.HN1224 Composed by George Gershwin. Edited by N...(+)
Cello, Viola, 2 Violins
SKU: HU.HN1224
Composed by George
Gershwin. Edited by
Norbert Gertsch. String
Quartet, Strings,
Ensembles. Lullaby for
String Quartet. Set of
Parts. G. Henle #HN1224.
Published by G. Henle
(HU.HN1224).
12.2 x 9.3 x 0.1 inches.
In 1919-20 George
Gershwin was making a
name for himself with
Broadway songs and a
first show of his own in
New York. But he was
already attracted to the
world of classical music
- a world he would enter
with a bang in 1924 with
his "Rhapsody in blue".
He prepared himself for
this by taking an
intensive course in
composition, during which
he wrote this brief
"Lullaby" for string
quartet as an exercise,
probably in 1919. He
liked its catchy melody
so much that he later
used it again in his
one-act "jazz opera"
"Blue Monday Blues". "I
find the piece charming
and kind", wrote his
brother Ira in 1968 when
the quartet movement
appeared in print for the
first time. Thus the
world was given a second
lullaby by this American
composer - one worthy to
stand alongside his
famous "Summertime" from
"Porgy and Bess".
[COPYRIGHT RETURNED TO
COMPOSER]. Composed
by Edward Cowie. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Softcover. 76
pages. Duration 15'.
Schott Music #ED13391.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49018856).
ISBN
9790220133244. UPC:
884088675028.
9.0x12.0x0.204
inches.
Although
this is technically
Cowie's seventh string
quartet, it replaces his
earlier fourth quartet,
which he came to feel no
longer fit with his
compositional voice. The
quartet fluctuates
between a slow, luminous
sound and fast, agitated
music. Unlike much of
Cowie's work, this music
is abstracted from his
usual preoccupation with
the natural world,
turning instead to look
at an inner landscape.
The composer describes
the emotional force
behind his quartet: The
year 2009 was a terrible
year in which I lost
three close friends to
cancer and an elder
brother to Alzheimer's
disease. It was also a
year in which my wife was
diagnosed with breast
cancer; something from
which she has thankfully
made a great recovery. At
times like these,
emotions are sorely
tested and highlighted.
Four people I loved have
gone, so this music must
remain as testament not
to death, but to the
magnificent fragility and
loveliness of life. It
closes with a gentle and
almost vaporising
'benediction' a kind of
'amen' if you like.
String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Bote and Bock
String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.48024543 Set of Parts. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.48024543
Set of Parts.
Composed by Johannes
Boris Borowski. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover. 32
pages. Duration 720
seconds. Bote & Bock
#M202534922. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48024543).
9.0x12.0x0.09
inches.
In this
piece, commissioned by
the WDR and premiered by
the Quatuor Diotima in
Witten in 2016, Johannes
Boris Borowski shows
that, to him, the string
quartet genre is a
rewarding field of
experimentation despite
any past history: A
separate architecture
emerges from the
contrasting of noise and
sound-oriented music, an
architecture which causes
either rather active or
rather passive listening,
depending on the music's
consistency. The composer
got his extra-musical
inspiration from
Dostoyevsky's 'The
Brothers Karamasov': Its
hypnotic detailed drama,
the rhythmic change in
narrative perspective and
the interconnection of
crime, development and
romantic novel creates a
similar audience
expectation.
String Quartet No. 1 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Bote and Bock
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.48024542 Score. Composed by Johanne...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.48024542
Score. Composed by
Johannes Boris Borowski.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 16 pages.
Duration 720 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202534915.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48024542).
ISBN
9783793141884.
9.0x12.0x0.053
inches.
In this
piece, commissioned by
the WDR and premiered by
the Quatuor Diotima in
Witten in 2016, Johannes
Boris Borowski shows
that, to him, the string
quartet genre is a
rewarding field of
experimentation despite
any past history: A
separate architecture
emerges from the
contrasting of noise and
sound-oriented music, an
architecture which causes
either rather active or
rather passive listening,
depending on the music's
consistency. The composer
got his extra-musical
inspiration from
Dostoyevsky's 'The
Brothers Karamasov': Its
hypnotic detailed drama,
the rhythmic change in
narrative perspective and
the interconnection of
crime, development and
romantic novel creates a
similar audience
expectation.
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.PB-5622-07 Urtext. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.PB-5622-07
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
With
his first String Quartet
in D minor, op. 77,
composed in 1855, the
native Swiss composer
Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
bid a brilliant farewell
to Weimar.
Romantic
period. Study Score. 176
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5622-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-5622-07).
ISBN
9790004215197. 6.5 x 9
inches.
With his
first String Quartet in D
minor, op. 77, composed
in 1855, the native Swiss
composer Joachim Raff bid
a brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality.
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. This
edition: Urtext. Chamber
music; Folder. Edition
Breitkopf.
Orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern:
The two captivating
quartets are now
available as Urtext
editions. Romantic
period. Set of parts. 88
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 8939.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8939).
ISBN
9790004186084.
With
his first String Quartet
in D minor, op. 77,
composed in 1855, the
native Swiss composer
Joachim Raff bid a
brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality.
String Quartet SKU: BR.PB-5622 Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. E...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BR.PB-5622
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Romantic
period. Study Score.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
5622. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-5622).
ISBN
9790004215197. 6.5 x 9
inches.
With his
first String Quartet in D
minor, op. 77, composed
in 1855, the native Swiss
composer Joachim Raff bid
a brilliant farewell to
Weimar. He had been there
as Franz Liszt's
assistant since 1850 and
had made a name for
himself in the city's art
scene - now he embarked
on new paths. He composed
his second Quartet in A
major, op. 90, already in
1857 in Wiesbaden, the
spa town that was to
become his home for 21
years. The two quartets
are unequivocal works:
orchestrally-conceived,
full of energetic vigor,
and at times
uncompromisingly modern.
They confidently continue
the Beethoven tradition
and attest at the same
time to Raff's intensive
confrontation with
Richard Wagner's music
during the Weimar years.
In his chamber music, the
composer wanted to
achieve progress in an
inherently historical way
and to ground the
individual substance in
existing forms, as he
told the Viennese
violinist Josef
Hellmesberger, who
launched opus 77. The
quartets, first published
in 1860/62, found
illustrious interpreters,
among them, the Muller
brothers' renowned
ensemble, to which opus
90 was also dedicated,
and Joseph Joachim.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
Some
eighteen years elapsed
between Raff's first
counted String Quartet
op. 77 and his Quartets
Nos. 6-8 op. 192,
combined as one work. As
such, Raff parted with
the weighty single opus
in quartet composition -
without, however,
sacrificing musical
quality.
Piccolo; String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.48025327 Piccolo and String Qu...(+)
Piccolo; String Quartet
(Parts)
SKU:
HL.48025327
Piccolo and String
Quartet Set of Parts.
Composed by Elena
Kats-Chernin. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover.
Duration 180 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202536377.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025327).
UPC:
196288175476.
The
piece is part of the
ballet Wild Swans,
choreographed by Meryl
Tankard at the Sydney
Opera House in 2002,
based on the fairy tale
The Wild Swans by Hans
Christian Andersen.
Originally scored for
soprano and orchestra,
Eliza Aria introduces
Princess Elisa and
expresses her pure soul,
innocence and belief in
the goodness of the
world: Without saying a
word, she must weave
stinging nettles into
cloth to save her
enchanted brothers. The
short, enchanting
vocalise is perhaps Elena
Kats-Chernin's best-known
creation and went around
the world as music in a
promotional video on
YouTube. It is now
available in numerous
versions for `ifferent
instruments and
instrumentations.
Soprano; String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.48025321 From Wild Swans Suite...(+)
Soprano; String Quartet
(Score)
SKU:
HL.48025321
From
Wild Swans Suite Score
for Soprano and String
Quartet. Composed by
Elena Kats-Chernin.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical.
Softcover. Duration 180
seconds. Bote & Bock
#M202536315. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48025321).
UPC:
196288175414.
The
piece is part of the
ballet Wild Swans,
choreographed by Meryl
Tankard at the Sydney
Opera House in 2002,
based on the fairy tale
The Wild Swans by Hans
Christian Andersen.
Originally scored for
soprano and orchestra,
Eliza Aria introduces
Princess Elisa and
expresses her pure soul,
innocence and belief in
the goodness of the
world: Without saying a
word, she must weave
stinging nettles into
cloth to save her
enchanted brothers. The
short, enchanting
vocalise is perhaps Elena
Kats-Chernin's best-known
creation and went around
the world as music in a
promotional video on
YouTube. It is now
available in numerous
versions for `ifferent
instruments and
instrumentations.
Set of Parts Soprano; String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.48025322 From Wil...(+)
Set of Parts Soprano;
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.48025322
From Wild Swans Suite
Set of Parts for Soprano
and String Quartet.
Composed by Elena
Kats-Chernin. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover.
Duration 180 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202536322.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025322).
UPC:
196288175421.
The
piece is part of the
ballet Wild Swans,
choreographed by Meryl
Tankard at the Sydney
Opera House in 2002,
based on the fairy tale
The Wild Swans by Hans
Christian Andersen.
Originally scored for
soprano and orchestra,
Eliza Aria introduces
Princess Elisa and
expresses her pure soul,
innocence and belief in
the goodness of the
world: Without saying a
word, she must weave
stinging nettles into
cloth to save her
enchanted brothers. The
short, enchanting
vocalise is perhaps Elena
Kats-Chernin's best-known
creation and went around
the world as music in a
promotional video on
YouTube. It is now
available in numerous
versions for `ifferent
instruments and
instrumentations.