String Quartet SKU: HL.14036341 Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales Americ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14036341
Composed
by Hugh Wood. Music Sales
America. Classical. Set.
Composed 2001. Chester
Music #CH60931. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14036341).
ISBN
9780711955080.
Comm
issioned by the BBC and
premiered by the
Chilingirian String
Quartet. Quoting Wood: In
my Second and Third
Quartets I attempted
sectional, agglutinative
forms: in my Fourth I
return to the
conventional four
movement form of my First
Quartet of 1962. Both
works build up (as in the
19th century symphony) to
the Finale, thus making
it the most substantial
movement, which provides
a climax to the work. The
First Movement has, in
both works, only the
status of an
Introduction. But there
the consciously willed
resemblances end. This
Introduction follows the
Second Quartet to a
certain extent, in that
it provides a sort of
'cauldron', from which
elements to be used later
can all be plucked. Its
opening will reappear at
various points throughout
the work, most completely
at a climatic point of
the Finale (bar 110).
Subsequent material will
be more fully worked out
in the second movement, a
large Scherzo. The
Introduction concludes
with an unusually placed
violin cadenza (itself a
rare feature in a string
quartet, the idea lifted
from Elliott Carter's
First Quartet) of which
the opening is to
reappear halfway through
the Finale. The Scherzo
(which follows attacca)
does not have at its
centre a discretely
characterized Trio: a
figure in double-stops
like a distant fanfare
supplies the necessary
contrast of a second
idea. The Slow Movement
has a secondary idea
first heard on the cello
and marked appassionato:
an agitato middle section
recalls the opening of
the work, but in a
formulation which will be
found closely to
anticipate its
reappearance in the
Finale. The Finale is
planned on a broad scale.
Only after a fully worked
exposition of both
primary and secondary
material does the opening
of the whole work return,
now in a greatly extended
form. Then, at bar 140,
the tune of the violin
cadenza is first
harmonized in fanfare
style on the upper
instruments, then
presented as a chorale on
the lower ones, with a
rushing semiquaver
accompaniment above. This
climatic activity mounts
to the very end. The work
is dedicated to the
Chilingirian Quartet, old
friends over many years.
Score available
separately: SOS04044.
Score and Parts String Quartet (Score & Parts) - difficult SKU: HL.49018488(+)
Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts) -
difficult
SKU:
HL.49018488
3rd
String Quartet.
Composed by Thomas
Larcher. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
parts. Composed
2006/2007. 132 pages.
Duration 18'. Schott
Music #ED20356. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49018488).
ISBN
9790001151511. UPC:
884088668044.
9.25x12.0x0.333
inches.
The title
of Thomas Larcher's third
string quartet, Madhares,
refers to the name of a
deserted place on the
island of Crete which
inspired him to compose
this work. Larcher
developed the piece from
repetitions of sounds
generated by plucking the
strings with a coin. The
C major in the second
movement Honey from
Anopolis evokes the
picture of an idealistic
time long gone. The idyll
is broken by rapid
rhythmic movements marked
'sleepless'.
2 violins, viola, violoncello SKU: FG.55011-878-2 Composed by Kalevi Aho....(+)
2 violins, viola,
violoncello
SKU:
FG.55011-878-2
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Classical, contemporary,
folk. Score & parts.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-878-2. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-878-2).
Lasting 27
minutes, Kalevi
Aho’s String
quartet no. 4 (2021) is
in four movements. The
first, Nocturne, begins
with a hazily muted
melody dominated by the
interval of a minor third
on the second violin.
Though the first movement
begins in nocturnal mood,
there is also some more
forceful music around the
middle. The second
movement, Allegro
capriccioso, is quick
with quirky rhythms. At
times tempestuous, it
faces the players with
the biggest technical and
virtuoso challenges. The
following Largo is slow.
A couple of times in the
first half it is
dominated by soft,
mysterious harmonies. The
tempo marking of the
virtuosic closing
movement is Presto,
leggiore. The movement
begins with quick,
flickering,
will-o’-the-wisp-l
ike music. It later
builds up to an extremely
violent climax dominated
by tremolo figures on the
second violin and thick
chords on the other
instruments. The
flickering music of the
beginning returns at the
end, before dissolving
into silence.
This
product includes the full
score (A4) and the parts
(B4).