| This present moment used to be the unimaginable future... Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
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
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| Quartetstart Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] - Facile Faber Music Limited
(Original Repertoire for Beginner String Quartets). By Mary Cohen. Part(s); Quar...(+)
(Original Repertoire for
Beginner String
Quartets). By Mary Cohen.
Part(s); Quartet; Score;
String Quartet. Faber
Edition. Published by
Faber Music
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| Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartet No. 4 - Children's Games (Score) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Chester
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. $29.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Britten Britten /String Quartet 3 (Score) Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur] Faber Music Limited
Composed by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Masterworks; Quartet; Solo Small Ensem...(+)
Composed by Benjamin
Britten (1913-1976).
Masterworks; Quartet;
Solo Small Ensembles;
String Quartet (Study
Score). Faber Edition.
20th Century; Masterwork.
Score. Faber Music
#12-0571523080. Published
by Faber Music
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| String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Faber Music Limited
(Parts). By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Masterworks; Part(s); Quartet; String ...(+)
(Parts). By Benjamin
Britten (1913-1976).
Masterworks; Part(s);
Quartet; String Quartet.
Faber Edition. 20th
Century; Masterwork.
Published by Faber Music
$41.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 3: 'Hana No Hanataba' Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Schott
String Quartet SKU: HL.49047454 Score and Parts. Composed by Julia...(+)
String Quartet SKU:
HL.49047454 Score
and Parts. Composed
by Julian Anderson.
String Ensemble. Chamber,
Classical. Softcover. 148
pages. Duration 1380
seconds. Schott Music
#ED13989. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047454). UPC:
842819101086.
9.0x12.0x0.358
inches. My 3rd
String Quartet is in six
contrasted movements.
Certain musical figures
recur across the work,
but there are few themes
as such. The main
emphasis is on contrast
of mood, texture,
harmony, pacing and
timing. Unlike many of my
works this quartet had no
extra-musical
inspiration, and in
principle should have no
subtitle. Certain
features already present
in my music became more
prominent in this new
work: modes (limited
collections of pitches)
have always helped me to
focus musical character,
but here a sense of key
note for each mode became
much more pronounced, as
did the difference
between modes for each
section of the work. A
sort of hybrid key-system
emerged (even with
equivalents of major and
minor) which is not
normal tonality, nor does
it aim to imitate it.
Unlike tonality this
key-system includes
noises, extended
performance techniques
and intervals outside
Western tuning as
available resources. What
I hope it does is to
focus the listening
experience onto different
musical areas, to
encourage a sense of both
modulation from one area
to another and to give
the music a sense of
goal. No conscious
knowledge of this is
needed when listening:
the music should
communicate directly on
its own. Here, then, is
this collection of six
musical colours, related
and unrelated, different
yet belonging together,
variable yet in a set
order. Hence the
subtitle, chosen both for
both its sound and its
sense: 'hana no hanataba'
meaning, in Japanese,
'bouquet of flowers'. A
brief description: 1)
Moderately fast. Short
droplets of sounds gather
increasing momentum. 2)
Very fast. Canons and
bells at different
speeds. 3) Very slow -
fast - very slow - very
fast - very slow. The
main slow movement and
its main scherzo. An
emphasis on non-tempered
tunings and on inhaling
and exhaling waves of
sound. The slow sections
feature florid melodic
writing. In the exuberant
scherzo competing duos
and trios create
imaginary folk music. 4)
Extremely fast/extremely
slow. Open strings and
harmonics fuse into a
single string instrument
- like a sort of large
resonating Medieval
tromba marina. 5) Very
fast. A variation on
movement 2). Variation,
Schoenberg told Cage, is
just a sort of repetition
'with some things changed
and others not.' 6) Slow
- Very Fast - Fast -
Slow. The opening calm
harmonies and florid
melodies evoke movement
3) in different music.
The fast part features
one overt theme: a
fanfare-like call to
attention which is
subject to extensive
development. There is
much use of non-Western
tuning. At its climax the
music freezes into a
frieze - a wall of sound
standing in front of the
audience with increasing
obstinacy and certainty
as the work grinds
towards its cadence. $33.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String quartets Nos. 1-3 Op. 41 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.EB-32032 Urtext. Composed by Ro...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc) SKU:
BR.EB-32032
Urtext. Composed
by Robert Schumann.
Edited by Nick
Pfefferkorn. Chamber
music; Folder. Edition
Breitkopf. Romantic
period. Set of parts. 140
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 32032.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.EB-32032). ISBN
9790004186343. 9 x 12
inches. Invaluable
Glimpses Schumann's close
collaboration with the
David quartet, together
with the valuable advice
of his friend Mendelssohn
Bartholdy, led the
composer to make
extensive changes to the
Streichquartette op. 41
before publication in
December 1842. The
present edition is hence
to be thought of as a
critical Urtext edition;
it offers in fact to
those interested, an
invaluable glimpse into
Schumann's creative
process and his striving
for the final form of his
string quartets. All the
deletions, changes, and
the original phrasing
were carefully worked out
in detail, restored, and
editorially identified in
the music text. A
detailed preface giving
the geneses of the works,
as well as pages of the
autograph score in
facsimile, complement the
edition. The parts are of
course so configured in
the reliable Breitkopf
quality that the quartets
can also be performed
today in the traditional
form. The present edition
was also used for the
Leipzig String Quartet's
2010 CD recording. $61.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| String quartets Nos. 1-3 Op. 41 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
String Quartet (2vl,va,vc) SKU: BR.PB-32032-07 Urtext. Composed by...(+)
String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc) SKU:
BR.PB-32032-07
Urtext. Composed
by Robert Schumann.
Edited by Nick
Pfefferkorn. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Romantic
period. Study Score. 124
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 32032-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-32032-07). ISBN
9790004215661. 6.5 x 9
inches. Invaluable
Glimpses Schumann's close
collaboration with the
David quartet, together
with the valuable advice
of his friend Mendelssohn
Bartholdy, led the
composer to make
extensive changes to the
Streichquartette op. 41
before publication in
December 1842. The
present edition is hence
to be thought of as a
critical Urtext edition;
it offers in fact to
those interested, an
invaluable glimpse into
Schumann's creative
process and his striving
for the final form of his
string quartets. All the
deletions, changes, and
the original phrasing
were carefully worked out
in detail, restored, and
editorially identified in
the music text. A
detailed preface giving
the geneses of the works,
as well as pages of the
autograph score in
facsimile, complement the
edition. The parts are of
course so configured in
the reliable Breitkopf
quality that the quartets
can also be performed
today in the traditional
form. The present edition
was also used for the
Leipzig String Quartet's
2010 CD recording. $32.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
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