Partitions difficile pour Ensemble à cordes

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...

Voici le premier volume d'une nouvelle série de pièces de répertoire pour quatuor à cordes, éditée par le Quatuor Kronos de renommée internationale. Depuis sa fondation en 1973, l'ensemble a commissio...

Ce court quatuor à cordes est le troisième que Casken a composé pour le renommé Lindsay String Quartet. Ecrit dans un style très accessible, il peut être une introduction idéale au quatuor à cordes co...

Duddell's short string quartet made up of four mere bagatelles is a treat for both players and audiences. First performed by the Psophos Quartet at the 2007 Presteigne Festival and recently transcribe...

Richard Ayres' Three Small Pieces for String Quartet each have distinct characters that illustrate the composer's vivid imagination and skill for combining energetic, touching and sometimes wild music...

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...