Composed by Christian Mason. World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, Januar...(+)
Composed by Christian
Mason.
World premiere: Paris,
Cite
de la musique, January
14,
2020. Breitkopf and
Haertel
#EB 9377. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Carl Fischer
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: CF.CY3256 Composed by Daniel Godfrey. C...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
CF.CY3256
Composed by
Daniel Godfrey.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1974.
59+26+26+26+26 pages.
Duration 16 minutes. Carl
Fischer Music #CY3256.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CY3256).
ISBN 9780825881947.
UPC: 798408081942. 8.5x11
inches.
Reviewers,
trying to find a label
for Godfrey's music, will
compare him to Debussy,
Ravel, Stravinsky, even
Barber, using words such
as lyrical, lush, and
always tonal and melodic.
2004 saw the release of
an all-Godfrey CD,
including String Quartet
No. 2, by the Cassatt
String Quartet, an album
that the New Yorker
hailed as one of the 10
best of that year.
Formerly available only
on a rental basis, String
Quartet No. 2 is now
available for sale. Real
sensual warmth, with a
touch of the sensibility
of Schoenberg's
Transfigured NightÃ
These very touching works
are completely tonal and
basically pick up from
the point where music was
derailed some four score
years ago... It is
remarkable that music
like this is being
written, recorded, and
widely celebrated. Robert
Reilly, Surprised by
Beauty: A Listener's
Guide to the Recovery of
Modern Music (Ignatius
Press).
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980).
UPC:
680160010806.
Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
United States.
String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Subito Music
2 vn, vla, vcl SKU: SU.29120070 For 2 vn, vla, vcl. Composed by To...(+)
2 vn, vla, vcl
SKU:
SU.29120070
For 2
vn, vla, vcl.
Composed by Todd Mason.
Chamber Music, String
Trio/Quartet/Quintet.
Score & Parts. Subito
Music Corporation
#29120070. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.29120070).
String Quartet
No. 3 is in one
continuous movement and
represents some harmonic
and structural
experimentation by the
composer. The work plays
out a bit like a tone
poem for string quartet.
Mason says This work
blends tonal, polytonal
and atonal material. My
goal was to create new
sounds but with a driving
suspense and energy from
the very first chords to
the very end to take the
listener on a kind of
cosmic tour to different
worlds of mystery,
longing, warmth, and even
triumph. This piece is
suggested for advanced
level players. YouTube
link with the Lyris
Quartet performing this
work:: 2 vn, vla, vcl
Duration: 14' Composed:
2021 Published by: Todd
Mason.
Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Quartet. For 2 violins, viola, and cello....(+)
Arranged by Deborah
Greenblatt. String
Quartet. For 2 violins,
viola, and cello. Tango.
Set of parts. Standard
Notation. 17 (violin 1),
19 (violin 2), 19
(viola), 17 (cello) pages
2 violins, viola, violoncello SKU: FG.55011-814-0 Composed by Juha T. Kos...(+)
2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-814-0
Composed by Juha T.
Koskinen. Classical,
contemprary. Score &
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-814-0. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-814-0).
ISBN
9790550118140.
Juha
T. Koskinen's (b. 1972)
responsiveness to timbre
and particular inetrest
to take into account the
musical dramaturgy as a
parameter in the duration
of the movements are
important in the String
quartet no. 3 (2022). The
aim of the composer is to
provide the listener with
clear musical marks,
using which one can
navigate on the ocean of
one's own
mind.
This product
includes the full score
and string parts.
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Oxford University Press
String quartet - Moderately Difficult to Difficult SKU: OU.9780193412552 ...(+)
String quartet -
Moderately Difficult to
Difficult
SKU:
OU.9780193412552
Composed by Anthony
Powers. String Quartets.
Set of parts. 60 pages.
Duration 20'. Oxford
University Press
#9780193412552. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193412552).
ISBN 9780193412552. 12
x 8 inches.
This
four-movement work
represents the composer's
desire 'to write a piece
of real chamber music,
intimate and
conversational in tone,
drawing the listener into
its worlds'. The result,
he writes, 'is a rather
inward-looking,
reflective work, not
without a capricious
aspect, but only
occasionally raising its
voice.'.
String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Oxford University Press
String quartet - Moderately Difficult to Difficult SKU: OU.9780193583122 ...(+)
String quartet -
Moderately Difficult to
Difficult
SKU:
OU.9780193583122
Composed by Anthony
Powers. String Quartets.
Score. 44 pages. Duration
20'. Oxford University
Press #9780193583122.
Published by Oxford
University Press
(OU.9780193583122).
ISBN 9780193583122. 12
x 8 inches.
This
four-movement work
represents the composer's
desire 'to write a piece
of real chamber music,
intimate and
conversational in tone,
drawing the listener into
its worlds'. The result,
he writes, 'is a rather
inward-looking,
reflective work, not
without a capricious
aspect, but only
occasionally raising its
voice.'.
String quartet - difficult SKU: HL.49017072 In space. Composed by ...(+)
String quartet -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49017072
In
space. Composed by
Dieter Schnebel. This
edition: Ring/Spiral
binding. Sheet music.
String. Score and parts.
Composed 2005/2006. 140
pages. Duration 42:00.
Schott Music #ED 20297.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49017072).
ISBN
9790001150118.
9.5x12.0x0.38
inches.
This string
quartet by a grand master
of the German avant-garde
combines a decidedly
traditional four-movement
structure with
experimental situations
in the concert hall. In
various sections the
performers act on
revolving stools, in
others they take
positions at the edge and
in the corners of the
platform or around the
listeners. However, the
composer also allows a
performance in a
conventional seating
arrangement which
emphasizes the work's
classical nature with
regard to material and
form even further.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14008374 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Mus...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14008374
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2006. 24
pages. Chester Music
#CH68629. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14008374).
ISBN
9781846096150. UPC:
884088435202.
8.25x11.75x0.105
inches.
The Full
Score for Peter Maxwell
Davies' fourth in a
series of ten string
quartets commissioned by
the Naxos Recording
company, first performed
by the Maggini Quartet on
20th August 2004 at the
Chapel of the Royal
Palace, Oslo, Norway, as
part of the Olso Chamber
Music Festival. Composer
Note: The fourth Naxos
quartet was written in
January and February of
2004, with the intention
of producing something
lighter and much less
fierce than its
predecessor, an
unpremeditated and
spontaneous reaction to
the illegal invasion of
Iraq. I returned to the
well-known Brueghel
picture of children's
games (1560, now in
Vienna), which had been
the inspiration for my
sixth Strathclyde
Concerto, for flute and
orchestra. These
illustrations liberated
my musical imagination,
but I feel it would limit
the listener's perception
to be too specific about
which game relates to
exactly which section of
the work. Suffice it to
say that there is
vigorous play -
leap-frog, bind the devil
with a cord, truss,
wrestling - alongside
quieter pastimes - masks,
guess whom I shall
choose, courting, odds
and evens. The single
movement juxtaposes these
activities as abruptly
and intimately as they
occur in Brueghel. Rather
as the eye is taken into
different perspectives
and proportions of scale
within the picture,
taking liberties which
would never be present
in, for instance,
Brunelleschi
architectural drawings,
so here, with a constant
sequence of
transformation processes,
I have distorted the
neat, precise
implications of modal
progression, expressed in
the unison opening phrase
(from F to B through A
sharp/B flat), so that
the ear is led, en route,
into the sound
equivalents of strange
passageways and closed
rooms: sicut exposition
ludus. As work on the
quartet progressed I
became aware that I was
reading into, and behind
the games, adult motives
and implications,
concerning aggression and
war, with their
consequences. It was
impossible to escape into
innocent childhood
fantasy. The nature of
the F to B progression
underlying the whole
construction derives from
a passage in the
development of the first
movement of Mahler's
Third Symphony, and the
opening of Schoenberg's
Second String Quartet.
However, unlike in these
models, here a real - if
temporary - sense of
resolution occurs at the
close of the quartet: as
when the curtain falls on
the reconciled Count and
Countess in 'Figaro' one
wonders how long the F/B
truce will hold, and
games break out again.
The quartet is dedicated
to Giuseppe Rebecchini,
Roman architect, and
friend since the
nineteen-fifties.
String Quartet SKU: BT.SCHEE5332 'Landscape of the Listening People - ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
BT.SCHEE5332
'Landscape of the
Listening People - Four
Persons'. Set (Score
& Parts). Composed 2010.
92 pages. Simrock
#SCHEE5332. Published by
Simrock (BT.SCHEE5332).
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.