Partitions difficile pour Ensemble à cordes

This extremely virtuoso string quartet setting uses its three main sections to describe a way from the imaginative search of melodies and sounds via rhythmic ecstasy to an initially third-heavy epilog...

Ce quatuor à cordes, composé par l'un des maîtres de l'avant-garde allemande, associe, dans la salle de concert, une structure en quatre mouvements résolument traditionnelle à des situations expérimen...

Le titre 'Madhares' signifie une contrée qui n'existe pas, simplement une 'Utopia'. Les mouvements honey from Anopolis et ...a song from? tournent autour du même thème : des mondes rêvés et reperdus....

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of do...

Alors que la musique polyphonique occidentale atteignait son apogée avec la fugue, prenait naissance à Cuba une polyphonie rythmique d'une grande complexité. M'ont inspiré surtout la ' batá ' (musique...

This work is among the subtropical plants series of composer Xiaogang Ye's wroks, in which include Enchanted Bamboo, Hibiscus, Datura, December Chrysanthemum, Scent of Green Mango,etc. These works sho...

Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was commissioned by the Chiara String Quartet. It consists of seven movements, highly contrasting in character, with movements I and VII serving as similar bookends to...

Gustav Jenner (1865-1920), a student of Brahms', wrote only three string quartets. The Third String Quartet in F major was completed in 1911 and premiered by the Rebner Quartet. Common to all Jenner's...

Just like the chamber music pieces by Werner Egk the third string quartet of Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister (1910-1995) is an early work now being published for the first time. It was written in...

This Quartet ends a series of five works recently completed by Kirchner, who is a trained string player. The movement titles themselves, inspired by Shakespeare's 'Tempest', give an idea of the high e...

When some time ago I looked at works by the painter Egon Schiele whom I admire very much, I thought which paintings would have been painted by this artist, had he not died much too early. I envisioned...

My 2nd string quartet is one single slow movement. The piece does not directly reflect Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words but I would not have been able to write it without knowing that work. The movemen...

The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jörg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the perfo...

Les 15 Miniatures n'obéissent à aucune forme classique connue. Elles font plutôt penser à des bagatelles, mais n'en sont pas moins liées entre elles par leurs motifs et leur construction.Des dialogues...

Deux mondes très différents se rencontrent dans ce quatuor : d'un côté un paysage sonore qui vit principalement de petits changements d'un son qui stagne la plupart du temps mais se transforme occasio...