SKU: HL.50603813
Score and Parts.
Composed by Benet
Casablancas. String.
Softcover. Duration 660
seconds. Union Musical
Ediciones #UME28535.
Published by Union
Musical Ediciones
(HL.50603813).
ISBN
9781705145913. UPC:
840126992892.
The
String Quartet no. 4,
subtitled Dedication, was
commissioned by the CNDM
of Madrid to celebrate
the 250th Anniversary of
Beethoven and was written
for, and dedicated to,
the Cuarteto Casals
(2017). This one-movement
work, lasting some 11
minutes, is based on a
small motif from the op
quartet. 130 as a tribute
to the German master. The
work, that explores the
full range of the
technical, musical, and
emotional scope of the
quartet medium, has a
ternary arrangement, with
a slow introduction and a
conclusive stretta on the
B-flat note (like the one
that opens Op. 130). Its
course includes marked
contrasts between the
contemplative, lyrical,
static and suspensive
sections - in the manner
of stagnations - and
those with a more lively
tempo, playful and
occasionally festive.
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