| Bright Ferment - String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Fennica Gehrman
String quartet SKU: FG.55011-510-1 Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score an...(+)
String quartet SKU:
FG.55011-510-1
Composed by Matthew
Whittall. Score and
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-510-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-510-1). ISBN
9790550115101. Matt
hew Whittall's preface to
Bright Ferment (2019): I
have a complicated
history with the string
quartet. Actually, it's
not that complicated. I
spent months writing a
huge one in my early
twenties and hastily
withdrew it after a long
delayed premiere, vowing
never to write another.
In a typical case of
karmic retribution, my
fear of the form would
eventually be overcome by
the unrefusable offer to
write the compulsory
piece for the Banff
International String
Quartet Competition in my
native Canada. The short
duration requested, about
nine minutes, also felt
like a good way to wade
gingerly back into the
medium. The title was
originally just a
nice-sounding pair of
words that surfaced in a
brainstorming session
with fellow composer Alex
Freeman over an
injudicious amount of
fermented barley. When I
looked it up later, I
found that it was a
phrase of older coinage,
seemingly used more for
poetic resonance than any
fixed meaning. Ferment by
itself denotes a state of
confusion, change or lack
of order. With bright, it
takes on a more positive
connotation with regard
to society and
creativity: a wild
profusion of ideas barely
checked by reason. (It
may not actually mean
that, but it describes
this piece nicely, so
let's go with it.)
Fermentation in its
trendy culinary usage is
also hinted at via a
recurrent percolating
device of scattered
pizzicati. As one may
guess from the tone of
this introduction, there
is little attempt at
gravity in Bright
Ferment, the only means
by which I felt I could
sidestep the historical
and expressive weight of
the string quartet genre.
Styles, gestures and
moods are tossed around,
cross-cut and abandoned
in
stream-of-consciousness
fashion, connected by
little except an
intuitive sense of
rightness in their
juxtaposition. If the
piece acquires depth in
spite of me, it will only
be because its disparate
parts amplify and
strengthen each other
simply by being together
- much like the ensemble
itself. Bright Ferment
was commissioned by the
Banff Centre for the Arts
and Creativity and the
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, with
additional funding from
the Americas Society (New
York), for the 2019 Banff
International String
Quartet Competition.
Duration: ca. 9
minutes. $54.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Winter Soundscapes Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Faber Music Limited
Composed by Mary Cohen. Quartet; Solo Small Ensembles; String Quartet. Faber Edi...(+)
Composed by Mary Cohen.
Quartet; Solo Small
Ensembles; String
Quartet. Faber Edition.
Christmas; Winter.
Part(s). Faber Music
#12-0571520766. Published
by Faber Music
$16.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Allegro from Quinten Quartet Orchestre - Intermédiaire Highland/Etling
Orchestra - Grade 3.5 SKU: AP.40469S Op. 76, No. 2. Composed by Fr...(+)
Orchestra - Grade 3.5
SKU: AP.40469S
Op. 76, No. 2.
Composed by Franz Joseph
Haydn. Arranged by
Brendan Mcbrien.
MakeMusic Cloud;
Masterworks; Performance
Music Ensemble; Single
Titles; String Orchestra.
Highland/Etling String
Orchestra. Classical;
Masterwork Arrangement.
Score. 24 pages.
Highland/Etling
#00-40469S. Published by
Highland/Etling
(AP.40469S). UPC:
038081454252.
English. This Haydn
quartet movement is a
powerful example of the
Storm and Stress style
(Sturm und Drang) favored
by the composer in many
of his famous symphonies.
Set in the dark key of D
minor, rhythmic and
harmonic agitation propel
the music forward as
Haydn develops its
four-note theme through a
variety of methods. Both
musicians and audience
will be captivated by
this chamber music
masterpiece set for
string orchestra with an
added bass part to
strengthen its harmonic
movement, making this the
perfect concert or
contest closer for your
orchestra. This title
is available in MakeMusic
Cloud. $8.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Haze and the Absence. Vc & Str Quartet Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Stainer and Bell
Voice & String Quartet SKU: ST.Y296 Composed by Rhian Samuel. Chamber mus...(+)
Voice & String Quartet
SKU: ST.Y296
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Chamber music. For High
Voice, String Quartet and
Piano. Score (2 copies
supplied) and parts.
Score and parts. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y296.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y296).
ISBN
9790220223525. Natu
re and landscape have
been the dominant themes
of much of Rhian Samuel's
vocal music of the last
ten years, projected
chiefly through the
poetry of Anne Stevenson,
and in her most recent
song-settings, the
writings of the
Pakistan-born Texas-based
poet Zulfikar Ghose. His
poem 'Conspiracy of the
Clouds' describes how,
the clouds having chosen
to become invisible,
'Even the astronauts on
the space shuttle /
looked down on a
cloudless America' as
hurricanes ravage
Louisiana and storms
engulf Nebraska. An
intriguing conceit in the
tradition of magic
realism, the text is
presented as a scena
lasting around 16
minutes, with
interpolations from
'Haze' by the
nineteenth-century New
England transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau. Thus
modern fable and romantic
nature-description are
juxtaposed, and their
interaction becomes the
source of musical
contrasts too. Thoreau's
words are assigned
predominantly to the
vocalist's highest
register, those of Ghose
to her lower tessitura;
and the suggestive and
dramatic accompaniment
builds tension steadily
to the final ironic
response of an
incredulous American
public: not one of awe
and wonder, but the
question 'Why weren't we
told about it? $56.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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