Partitions difficile pour Ensemble à cordes

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...

Composed for violinist Baird Dodge; James Matheson's Spin is a three-movement study in various meanings of the word spin. I. Gyre has the character of a whimsically spinning object in a sort of arena....

Partitur - Stimmensatz als Sonderanfertigung

Dense movement structures dialogizing in pairs and a darkened overall sound are what Mozart, Schubert and Brahms already thought to be fascinating in the genre of string quartet. Following this tradit...

Le quintette à cordes 'Sonanzen' (un jeu de mot sur consonances et dissonances) ne s'oriente pas seulement à son célèbre modèle, celui de Schubert, Wagner y est aussi présent par des citations afin d'...

Il s'agit du 3e quatuor de Penderecki, exigeant et captivant, retravaillé ici dans une version avec contrebasse. Les instruments sont mis en valeur de manière équivalente, et les interprètes doivent m...