Ensemble

As the title indicates, this is not so much a piano quartet in the classical tradition as a series of six short, independent movements, none of them lasting over three minutes. The majority are in dan...

As the title indicates, this is not so much a piano quartet in the classical tradition as a series of six short, independent movements, none of them lasting over three minutes. The majority are in dan...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

In the first part the strings spell out a version of the chaconne (a continuously repeated motive) in octaves while the piano plays improvisatorily against them; the second (and longest) part is a slo...

arrangement of the Tango movement from Symphony No.4

arrangement of the Tango movement from Symphony No.4

The piano may be amplified. This, however, is necessary only when the work is performed with its companion piece, Landscape I, for amplified piano and pre-recorded tape. Landscape II was commissioned...

The piano may be amplified. This, however, is necessary only when the work is performed with its companion piece, Landscape I, for amplified piano and pre-recorded tape. Landscape II was commissioned...

I borrowed the title of this piano quartet from Monteverdi's great madrigal sequence of 1610: "Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata". There are six main sections, behind each of which hovers the gh...

Although Adagissimo is short (lasting about eight minutes) it is built from numerous tiny inventions. The piece opens with slow, spare gestures passed gently back and forth between piano and strings....

In a speech at the 1984 Matsumoto Summer Conference, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki nicknamed Alice Kanack Mozart's mother in response to her innovative work in the development of the creative part of the brain....

In a speech at the 1984 Matsumoto Summer Conference, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki nicknamed Alice Kanack 'Mozart's mother in response to her innovative work in the development of the creative part of the brain...

In a speech at the 1984 Matsumoto Summer Conference, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki nicknamed Alice Kanack Mozart's mother in response to her innovative work in the development of the creative part of the brain....

Die Violoncello-Stimme ist obligat, nicht nur Verdoppelung der Klavier-Basslinie Violine (2), Violoncello, Klavier - Spielpartitur; Stimmensatz

HPS 671

Quartette in anderen Besetzungen - Kammermusik

Piano Quartet

Commissioned by the Primrose Piano Quartet with funding from the Scottish Arts Council, Mr and Mrs J. A. Pye's Charitable Settlement, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Hope-Scott...