Par KOSKINEN JUHA T.. Juha T. Koskinen's (b. 1972) responsiveness to timbre and particular inetrest to take into account the musical dramaturgy as a parameter in the duration of the movements are important in the String quartet no. 3 (2022). The aim of the composer 'is to provide the listener with clear musical marks, using which one can navigate on the ocean of one's own mind.' This product inclu…

Par BRANDER SIRI. Siri Brander (1866-1934) was one of the first female composers to be played by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Elegie (originally for piano) was arranger for string orchestra by A. E. Westerlind and first performed in 1894. More than 120 years later it was recovered in the archives. The small treasure of pure salon romanticism has the duration of 4 minutes. The package inclu…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók?s Second String Quartet was composed ? with several long interruptions ? between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement ?Allegro, molto capriccioso? provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of th…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Par VOLANS KEVIN. String Quartet No.12 is a work by Kevin Volans , commissioned by the Signum Quartet, who gave the world premiere in Birmingham on 11th November 2016. The piece lasts around 36 minutes, and this is the Full Score . String Quartet No.12 is a work by Kevin Volans , commissioned by the Signum Quartet, who gave the world premiere in Birmingham on 11th November 2016. The piece lasts ar…

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was still working on music begun in collaboration with the poet, while on the other hand Dessau was trying to work towards a socially oriented musical aesthetic, which led him to compose songs for politic…

Par VINE CARL. Described by its composer as 'a fantasia', Carl Vine's dramatic String Quartet #5 (2007) contains six clear sections but like much of his music is cast in one continuous movement. There is some repetition and development of material throughout the 22-minute work (which has been recorded by the Goldner String Quartet on ABC Classics) but this is less important to its structure than t…

String Quartet #3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. A score is available on sale.. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins , for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan…