20 Easy to Intermediate Pieces from four Centuries. Par NEUMANN EVA-MARIA (Arr.). Making music in a quartet uniquely nurtures young string players’ musical development, ensemble playing, listening to each other, and intonation. So, what could be more obvious than introducing the scoring of this genre, often referred to as chamber music’s supreme discipline, as early as possible. Indeed, composers…

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rap…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Après la parution au début des années 2017 et 2019 respectivement des volumes IV et III de la série intégrale des quatuors à cordes de Mozart aux éditions Urtext de Henle, l'expert de Mozart Wolf-Dieter Seiffert propose maintenant - en partition et parties séparées - le volume II. Y sont contenus, sous les numéros Köchel 168 à 173, les 'Frühe Wiener Quartette' (les 'Qu…

for string quartet. Par PHIBBS JOSEPH. English / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Musique contemporaine / Date parution : 1905-07-07/ Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Par MYLLARINEN TIINA. Tiina Myllärinen's (b. 1979) (Bad) Dreams come true for strings quartet (2022) was composed when war broke out in Europe. The composer tells: 'The shock, and the daily news barrage of battles could not help making an impression on my work and its material. I wondered what dreams and plans people had in Ukraine before the war, and how everything became a nightmare in a single …