Partitions pour ensemble d'instruments à cordes

String Quartet

Homunculus is a short (circa 12 minutes) work for string quartet, which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very co...

Commissioned by Kronos Quartet for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. Premiere 12th March 2009 at the MusicNOW Festival and 18th July 2009 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Bryce Dessner is a composer/guitar...

UA 2. November 2001, Melbourne Gewinner des Royal Philharmonic Society Award 2004 in der Kategorie 'Kammermusik'

There is hardly any other lullaby in the field of classical music - apart from Brahms' 'Guten Abend, gute Nacht' - that has gained such popularity as George Gershwin's (1898-1937) 'Summertime'. It is...

Nach dem Ballett 'Zorbas' bearbeitet von Wolfgang Birtel.

'Christmas - Peace on Earth' is the leading motive of the String Quartet, a tenet of faith as well as an expression of hope. In the first part of the work Vasks uses themes from a well-known Christmas...

'Christmas - Peace on Earth' is the leading motive of the String Quartet, a tenet of faith as well as an expression of hope. In the first part of the work Vasks uses themes from a well-known Christmas...

The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra, 'Cantabile', 'Musica dolorosa' and 'Voices', is concentrating increasingly on chamber music: his lates...

The premiere of the so called 'third string quartet' composed in 1988/89 was given on the 1989 Witten Festival in the rendering of the Auryn Quartet.

Piano / Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Percussion (optional).

First performance: Pro-Arte Quartet; Villa Aurelia, American Academy, Rome, Italy; 14 December 1936. Parts available: GS34173

Miniature Quartet No. 1 In A Minor. Parts only. Score also available for sale (NOV120187).

The set of parts for Stravinsky's rhythmic and intense Concertino. The piece was composed in 1920 and reflects the stacked chromatics and violent rhythms most famously manifest in The Rite Of Spring.