Musique classique pour quatuor à cordes

The work creates a sonorous climate with a stressed emphasis in the material aspect of the sound without appealing to big contrasts and trying to make the sonorous material talk by itself. The music g...

Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, a 19th Century French caricaturist, is not well-known in Japan. The composer was inspired to compose Fiddle after seeing Grandville's work, 'Apocalypse du ballet,' which ex...

The great American philosopher William James talks about a credit system of truth in which we take for granted the knowledge of the world around us. For instance, as a child you learn what a car is, w...

A complex work, this quartet was commissioned by the Festival Internacional de Santander (Spain). Durán-Loriga works with metric and poly-metric modulations following his interest for deepening the mu...

Composed in 2012, Musikphantome for string quartet was awarded first prize in the 2015 Malta International Composition Competition (Valletta, Malta). From the composer: 'Musikphantome is a term used b...

Charles Camilleri (1931 - 2009) was a Maltese composer. As a teenager, he composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta. He moved from his early influences by Maltese...

Guy Cuyvers is a very versatile musician. As a classical guitar player he has been acclaimed by Angel Romero and the international press unanimously praises his film scores. After graduating at the Ro...

Originally composed in 1957 and recipient of the Rheta Sosland Prize for Chamber Music, this String Quartet, Op. 16, of John La Montaine consists of five movements: Risoluto, Scherzo, Recitative, Aria...

The composer writes: These three pieces are based on movements from my Mass of the Apocalypse, commissioned for the 300th anniversary of St James' Church, Piccadilly and recorded by the St James' Sing...

Ascension est un court quatuor à cordes qui a été écrit pour célébrer le jour de l'Ascension et qui est né de l'image du drapeau de Saint-Georges flottant au-dessus des églises du pays. Il vise non se...

Le premier quatuor à cordes de Robert Walker, qu'il a commencé en 1976 et terminé en 1982, raconte un voyage de la violence et de la brutalité à la douceur et à la paix en quatre mouvements. Ce quatuo...