Partitions difficile pour Ensemble à cordes

Exciting piece by Tan Dun who is a prize winning composer from Hunan China. This piece tries to draw on Chinese colors and techniques of the Peking Opera.

Born in 1947, Laurent Duvillier-Wable trained under pianist Suzanne Joly and studied composition with Michel Puig. The latter, a student of René Leibowitz, introduced him to the mysteries of Schönberg...

Born in 1947, Laurent Duvillier-Wable trained under pianist Suzanne Joly and studied composition with Michel Puig. The latter, a student of René Leibowitz, introduced him to the mysteries of Schönberg...

The second of the Quartets commissioned by the Naxos label was completed in January 2003. This work swings between nervous virtuosic energy to the serene calm of an extended Lento, with exotic harmoni...

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel...

This is the full score of Aheym for String Quartet, composed by Bryce Dessner, best known as the guitarist of The National, but also an acclaimed composer in his own right. Composed in 2009 for the Kr...

Among the master's most exalted compositions, these selections include String Quartets No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127; No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130; No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131; No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 13...

The years from 1935 to 1950 were difficult ones for Elliot Carter. Wide recognition came only in 1951, when he was forty-three, with this work The First String Quartet. This work features diversified...

Schoenberg composed his Fourth String Quartet, Op. 37, on a commission from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The four movements of the quartet are based on a single, twelve-note row, although this is fairl...

Bloch was 73 years old when the String Quartet No. 3 was premiered in 1953 by the Griller Quartet. It is far more 'pared-down' than his earlier works, and avoids the influence of Jewish music which he...

This piece was commissioned by the Stanley String Quartet in 1958 and completed in 1959. It was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1960. Scored for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello.

This 4 movement work was inspired by weather patterns that occured one day while the composer was looking out his window in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

The Composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the sa...

Stride is a work for String Quartet by American composer Nico Muhly from 2005.

Set of parts for Vagn Holmboe's String Quartet No. 7 ('7. Quartetto') / Strygekvartet Nr. 7 Op. 86 (1964-65).

British composer Michael Nyman 'discovered' this work when he played Leporello's catalogue aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni on the Piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis. He has written that that...

Parts for Stepping Still for String Sextet by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

Le Quatuor à cordes n° 2 commence et se termine par des idées musicales qui, sous une forme ou une autre, étaient dans mon esprit depuis l'adolescence. Lors d'un déménagement en 2020, j'ai redécouvert...

Le Quatuor à cordes d’Olga Neuwirth, datant de 2009, est un hommage à l’artiste américain Henry Darger et au manuscrit éponyme richement illustré découvert après sa mort. Neuwirth relie ces abondantes...

Mon troisième quatuor à cordes est composé de six mouvements contrastés. Certaines figures musicales reviennent tout au long de l'œuvre, mais il n'y a pas de thèmes à proprement parler. L'accent est m...

Foreign Tongues explore une façon différente d'envisager la configuration standard d'un quatuor à cordes. Envisagée comme une œuvre où le violoncelle est opposé au reste des cordes, la pièce vise à ex...

Écrite en une seule journée en août 2012 lors d'une résidence dans le Massachusetts, cette pièce simple joue avec les couleurs respectives du violon et du violoncelle. Les deux instruments sont réacco...

Cette pièce est composée d'une séquence de huit mouvements courts. Elle commence par une montée et un déploiement progressif. On entend un réseau de voix qui coulent, pulsent, tournent, crient. La mus...