Partitions moyen chez ECS Publishing

String Quartet No. 2 was commissioned by the Ives String Quartet and composed between July 2009 and January 2010. Includes score and parts.

Elena Ruehr's first string quartet is an exploration of four distinct and storied ideas. The first movement, 'Patterns, ' may be performed on its own, and combines traditions of form, rhythm, and moti...

All four movements of this quartet have a basis in ancient traditional music from different parts of the world. The first movement's melody was composed on a small toy flute, making use of Middle East...

Each year the Cypress String Quartet selects two works from the standard quartet repertoire and commissions a third work based on inspiration derived from two older works. String Quartet No. 4 was wri...

A string quartet in ten movements based on the novel by Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), commissioned by and dedicated to the Cypress String Quartet. This piece takes one through the novel, develops its char...

Written for the Cypress String Quartet, partially commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, and dedicated to Todd Donovan. If there were a nickname for this quartet, it might be the 'Romantic Quartet. ' A...

While studying at the American Academy in Rome from 1922 to 1925 on the first Damrosch Fellowship, Randall Thompson, fascinated with Kenneth Grahame's delightful 1908 children's story The Wind in the...

The Aria features a lyrical, somewhat melancholy melody in the solo instrument which is continually supported by rich, regularly pulsating chords in the accompaniment. Contrasting sections are faster...

I composed Four Impressions for the American cellist, Terry King, currently on the faculty of the Longy School of Music in Boston. The piece was originally titled Green Lake: Four Impressions, after t...

The Aria features a lyrical, somewhat melancholy melody in the solo instrument which is continually supported by rich, regularly pulsating chords in the accompaniment. Contrasting sections are faster...

In one movement with two contrasting sections, the work opens with the Serenade, which is tranquil and melodic. It is followed by the energetically angular, raucously rhythmic Dance that features a ca...