String Quartet, Accordion
SKU: BT.WHKP01684
Composed by Hans
Abrahamsen. Classical.
Score Only. 32 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WHKP01684. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(BT.WHKP01684).
English.
Three
Little Nocturnes was
composed by Hans
Abrahamsen in 2005.
Commissioned by the
Cikada Ensemble, with
support from NOMUS, and
written for Frode Haltli
and the Cikada String
Quartet. Programme Note:
In the first nocturne a
slow, falling music
emerges on an irregular
pulse, filled with high
harmonics in the strings.
The second nocturne is
fast and unrestful music,
with a lot of passion,
which in a moment runs
into a glimpse of a
tango. In this movement
the accordion is employed
in its traditional
fashion, using the chord
bass, with its
“oom-pah-pahâ€
standard chords. The
third nocturne is again
slow, indeed very slow,
and it has German tempo
and expression markings.
Thepiece ends with a
lullaby in the accordion,
played with an unusual
technique, imitating the
string portato. This is
accompanied by high
harmonics in the strings,
while the first violin
slowly and softly plays a
melody from the second
nocturne. Hans
Abrahamsen.
Accordion
