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).
