Faber Music

Thomas Adès' Piano Quintet (2000) is a vivid reimagining of sonata form (complete with exposition repeat). Whilst it's themes are recognisably tonal, these simple building-blocks are the starting-poin...

Five to Tango by David Matthews for piano quintet. Available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format. This download is for the piano score only.

Five to Tango by David Matthews for piano quintet. Available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format. This download is for the instrumental parts only.

The digital playing score for Matthew Hindson's duet for violin and cello, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

The digital score and parts to Matthew Hindson's piece for violin and viola, Chrissietina's Magic Fantasy.

The digital score and parts to Matthew Hindson's work for two baroque violins and viola da gamba, After Bach.

... 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. . .'David J Brown, Tempo, March 1985

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

'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...

These two tracks are from Paul McCartney's album Working Classical and are arranged for String Quartet. This is the score. The parts are available separately.

These two titles are from Paul McCartney's Working Classical project. This is the string quartet parts