Partitions quatuor d'instruments à cordes

Arrangements of three of Bolcom's famous piano rags: Poltergeist, Graceful Ghost, and Incineratorag.

Like much of Reza Vali's music, this string quartet can either be played with traditional Persian tuning or with a mixture of traditional Persian tuning and the European Equal Temperament Tuning. Perf...

Stringworks is a series of popular music for working string quartets. Light repertoire pieces and entertaining encores are all expertly arranged by Jack Long. Each folio contains individual parts, plu...

Exercises in 7 major keys covering slurred, legato, staccato and détaché bowings.

This reprint of the celebrated Novello edition features the six 'Haydn' Quartets, the 'Hoffmeister' Quartet, and three 'Prussian' Quartets. Based on corrected manuscripts published by the composer's w...

... the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact. The Bulletin (Kenneth Robins), 27 September 1969

It is an exceptionally impressive work, possibly a great or near-great one. Donald Mintz, The Musical Quarterly vol. 53, no. 4, 1967

... this snazzy piece (filled with folky references and odd percussion effects) takes the cake - a terrific, immediately entertaining and absorbing work. San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 8 J...

... one of his finest works... a composer thoroughly at ease with himself, working in a mode that has come to terms with his tradition and with his environment, and using it with assurance to create m...

... true quartet-music, admirably conceived for the medium. I found it a most vivid and compelling piece. The Sunday Times (Desmond Shawe-Taylor), 7 December 1975

The terse String Quartet No 9 is a major addition to the quartet repertory.San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 1 March 1980

... the quartet is a highly distinctive work, a welcome addition to Simpson's significant contribution to the British twentieth-century string quartet. Trevor Bray, Music and Letters Vol. 68, 3 April...

This is a 'Ninth' and no mistake … the most significant British string quartet of the century – as David J. Brown famously wrote in Tempo in 1985. The String Quartet No. 9 is undeniably a milestone in...

The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994.

‘A subtle baroque flavour... a slow movement of ravishing arabesques above a pizzicato cello, balanced by outer sections of darting counterpoint.’ The Independent (Nicholas Williams), 24 M...

... a subtle Baroque flavour... Nicholas Williams, The Independent, 24 May 1994

Immerse yourself in the fascinating soundscape of chamber music with the impressive "String Quartet No. 10". This masterful composition opens up a rich spectrum of musical expression for string ensemb...

'Four Play' is the essential gig album for string quartet, masterfully arranged by Carlo Martelli. The volume includes music by the great composers as well as theme songs and soundtracks from TV and f...