Par KIDANE DANIEL. “Foreign Tongues explores a different way of looking at the standard string quartet setup. Envisaged as a work where the cello is pitted against the rest of the string players, the piece aims to explore the idea of different languages communicating and interacting with each other, sometimes at the same time. This idea stems from my own multilingual and multicultural background a…

Par PURCELL HENRY. This edition of Purcell's Chacony In G Minor, Z 730 was prepared in 1947-8 for a performance on the 30th January 1948 by the Collegium Musicum Zurich which was conducted by Benjamin Britten, in the Kleiner Tonhallesaal in Zurich. This piece is written for string quartet or a string orchestra./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes ou Orchestre à Cordes)

Paul Paradise has selected eight of Arcangelo Corelli's twelve Concerti Grossi and combined the concertino parts with the concerto grosso parts, edited the bowings, and added fingerings. Now these masterful works are playable by string orchestra or string quartet. The Concerto Grossi included are: No. 4 in D Major * No. 7 in D Major * No. 10 in C Major * No. 11 in B-flat Major * No. 12 in in F Maj…

Par LEIVISKA HELVI. Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, i…