String Quartet

SKU: HL.14019768

Composed by Elizabeth Maconchy. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 28 pages. Chester Music #CH5540101. Published by Chester Music (HL.14019768).

UPC: 884088491130. 8.25x11.75x0.15 inches.

Maconchy String Quartet No.10 was commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival 1972. Duration 15 minutes. Score only edition.

Maconchy String Quartet No.12 was commissioned by the University of Sheffield for their 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1979. Duration 13 minutes. Score only edition. Separate parts are also available on sale

String Quartet

SKU: HL.42688

Full Score. Composed by Reza Vali. LKM Music. Classical. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #X054058. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.42688).

ISBN 9781458437044. UPC: 884088653071. 11.0x14.0x0.437 inches.

May be performed in traditional Western string quartet configuration, or as a quartet of Persian Kamanche. Full performance and tuning instructions included. Premiered in the US and Europe.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.42692

Score and Parts. Composed by Reza Vali. LKM Music. Classical. 74 pages. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #X504075. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.42692).

ISBN 9781458437082. UPC: 884088653118. 11.5x17.0x0.447 inches.

Premiered as a joint production between the Del-Sol Quartet and the Barbad Chamber Ensemble.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.42691

Score and Parts. Composed by Reza Vali. LKM Music. Classical. 140 pages. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #X504074. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.42691).

ISBN 9781458437075. UPC: 884088653101. 11.0x14.0x0.425 inches.

May be performed in traditional Western string quartet configuration, or as a quartet of Persian Kamanche. Full performance and tuning instructions included. Premiered in the US and Europe.

Composed by Kim Andre Arnesen. Score and parts. Santa Barbara Music Publishing #SBMP1260-1. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing (SB.SBMP-1260.1).

String Quartet

SKU: UM.12116

Composed by Naji Hakim. Score and parts. United Music Publishing #12116. Published by United Music Publishing (UM.12116).

ISBN 9790224412116. A4 inches.

By Gabriel Joachimovich Lomakin. Edited by Graham Bastable. For string quartet. Parts. Published by International Music Company

String Quartet

SKU: BT.EMBZ14386

Composed by Balázs Horváth. EMB Contemporary Music. Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 2014. 40 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ14386. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ14386).

''The four parts of the piece originate from the piano cycles of Johannes Brahms. The identical nature of the themes is implied in their descending direction, while their differences lie in their distinct meters, key signatures and tempo. I further developed the differences through the use of different musical alterations (of melody, rhythm and timbre) while the melodic contours are always constant. Depending on the listener's attention, the melody lines written above one another will be audible separately or appear to be in unison.'' (Balázs Horváth)

''Der Stoff der vier Stimmen des Stückes stammt aus den Klavierzyklen von Johannes Brahms. Die Übereinstimmung liegt in ihrer abwärts tendierenden Richtung, ihr Unterschied hingegen in abweichender Metrik, Tonart und Tempi. Die Unterschiede habe ich mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher musikalischer (melodischer, rhythmischer und tonaler) Veränderungen weitergewoben, während die Struktur der Melodien immer konstant bleibt. Die übereinander gelegten Melodienbögen erklingen abhängig von der Aufmerksamkeit des Hörers teils jede für sich, teils eine Einheit bildend.'' (Balázs Horváth).

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14031851

Composed by Vagn Holmboe. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 24 pages. Music Sales #KP00797. Published by Music Sales (HL.14031851).

ISBN 9788759880661. Danish.

Holmboe' s last quartet work, which is unoffi­cially also String Quartet No. 21, was the last work he ever composed, and was unfinished on his death in 1996. His pupil Per Nørgård has finished the quartet, and himself characterizes his contribution by saying that the score existed “in an only partly completed form, which could however be written out with only a few cases of doubt”. With only two movements and a play­ing time of about nine minutes it is at its exist­ing length the shortest of Holmboe's string quar­tets. The first movement takes the form of one long arch in a rocking triple time which constantly shiftsamong different tempo and pulse sensations. At the same time the rhythmic en­ergy increases until the movement, in a faster Con moto tempo accelerates to a more flowing 12/8 time, coloured both rhythmically by cross-­rhythms in duple time and timbrally by harmon­ics in the viola. In its middle section, Con fuoco, the movement culminates in both tempo and expression until it falls calm in brief recapitula­tions in reverse order of the first two sections. The rocking feeling continues in the second movement, but now at a more extroverted level from the outset, Allegro and pizzicato. The en­ergy builds up further as the mood intensifies to Con fuoco, while all instruments go over to bowed playing, but like the first movement, this movement ends Adagio here however not as a gradual attenuation but through a sudden shift in tempo to a calm, imitative passage before the movement slowly thins out to the almost inaudible through a last, dense, open sounding chord with a brief violin solo above it.

The quartet is dedicated to Holmboe's wife MeLa May Holmboe, and was given its first performance by the Kontra Quartet on 22nd March 1997 at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark.