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Esa Pietilä's Icons of Blue, Black & Sun (String quartet no. 2) was composed in 2022 and premiered by SKATTA String Quartet. Three icons in three colours is an association of colours and the state of...

Renewed string parts (2025) with a study score! Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) dedicated his String quartet (1985) dedicated to the memory of his friend, the Estonian actor Urmas Kibuspuu (1953-1985). The...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) second string quartet dates from February 1970, when he was in his second year as a student of Eino-Juhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy. Its premiere in the debut concert...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) String quartet no. 3 (1971) comprises eight short sections played in a single movement without pause and is strictly linear in character. The work begins, in all simplicity, wit...

Ein Divertimento im besten Sinn ist dieses Frühwerk des späteren Dadaisten und Komponisten des Kommunistischen Manifests. Es verbindet bei nicht zu hohem Schwierigkeitsgrad Spielfreude und Klangsinnli...

Ein Divertimento im besten Sinn ist dieses Frühwerk des späteren Dadaisten und Komponisten des Kommunistischen Manifests. Es verbindet bei nicht zu hohem Schwierigkeitsgrad Spielfreude und Klangsinnli...

Die Uraufführung des Streichquartetts e-Moll fand am 6. November 1925 in Göttingen im Studentenheim am Wilhelmsplatz statt. Es spielte das Bentz-Quartett, eines von wenigen reinen Frauenensembles der...

Traveling Music was the first work written for the then newly-formed Kronos String Quartet. The year was 1973. It is in three movements. The first is short and sweet and its material recurs late in th...

Eight Reflections on Swing Low' for string quartet is based on the spiritual, 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.' It consists of eight short vignettes, each one about a minute in length, with parts of the ori...

I started writing this homage on March the 22nd of 2005 at 11 a.m. as a celebration of the 61 years 5 months and 12 days since the birth of the composer Albert Sarda. I finished on July the 18th of 20...

This work is part of a series for different chamber and symphonic ensembles. The 'Retrato V' for string quartet is divided in two sections. In the first one the dissonant sections interact with the co...

In four movements: Energico y furioso, Largo, Sostenuto and Presto nervoso. The concept of confrontation leads to a posing of contrasts by mean of characteristic elements taken out from the exploitati...

The work creates a sonorous climate with a stressed emphasis in the material aspect of the sound without appealing to big contrasts and trying to make the sonorous material talk by itself. The music g...

Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, a 19th Century French caricaturist, is not well-known in Japan. The composer was inspired to compose Fiddle after seeing Grandville's work, 'Apocalypse du ballet,' which ex...

The great American philosopher William James talks about a credit system of truth in which we take for granted the knowledge of the world around us. For instance, as a child you learn what a car is, w...

With this score, Periferia inaugurates the collection dedicated to Francesc Taverna-Bech, one of the most renewed Catalan composers of the 20th century. It is a work that evokes music created in the 7...