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Duo Fantasia is dedicated to Professor Luise Vosgerchian, whose mixture of fantasy, discipline and ebullience has shaped the lives of generations of American musicians. Among these are Lynn Chang and...

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to Eamonn Quinn, Artistic Director of Louth Contemporary Music Society in Ireland, for his deep empathy, appreciation and great...

Une inflexion irlandaise (dit-il lui-même), et quelques idées naïves transmettent un enthousiasme pour l'Irlande dont le destin historique rappelle à Silvestrov sa patrie l'Ukraine. L'œuvre fait l'obj...

Although the first version of the Duo was composed in 1998, I rewrote it completely for Giedre Dirvanauskaite and Daniel Grishin who premiered it at Lockenhaus festival 2011. The sub-title, 'After Oss...

String Quartet No. 1 is one of the most successful and most frequently performed works by Silvestrov. It can be described as a work standing on a threshold between avant-garde and post-avant-garde and...

The edition contains two string quartet miniatures which are 43 years apart. Quartetto piccolo (1961) is Valentin Silvestrov's first twelve-note composition which consists of three little movements me...

Le 1er quatuor à cordes (1983-1984) de Mansurian nous mène sur le long chemin de la simplicité, en un voyage enchanté dans le déroulement duquel la question de savoir si cette musique est nouvelle ou...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

Ces trois recueils de difficulté croissante consacrés au répertoire pour quatuor à cordes des compositeurs les plus en vue ont pour objet d'inciter à la pratique d'ensemble, et d'aider le musicien à a...

Ces trois recueils de difficulté croissante consacrés au répertoire pour quatuor à cordes des compositeurs les plus en vue ont pour objet d'inciter à la pratique d'ensemble, et d'aider le musicien à a...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow's McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, \"My first string quartet, Visions of a November...

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...