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Berkeley's second string quartet uses a free, random presentation of thematic material. There is a sharp contrast between the tight and rhythmic central section and the final passage which dispenses w...

for string quintet. Sentinels was written for the Brodsky Quartet and John Metcalfe. The piece is really a long, unrelenting march whose pulse never slackens or quickens, and in which slightly quirky...

for string quartet. This is a version for string quartet of Erkoreka's saxophone quartet, Duduk II. It is the last of the four Duduk pieces which are based on the traditional modes/scales of Armenia.

This four-movement work represents the composer's desire 'to write a piece of real chamber music, intimate and conversational in tone, drawing the listener into its worlds'. The result, he writes, 'is...

Commissioned by Cardiff University School of Music and dedicated to their resident string quartet, this work is in one unbroken span that is formed from four linked movements. The work features sharpl...

for string quartet. Written for the Smith Quartet, the title refers to some of the many different meanings of the word 'catch' - fishing, tricks, rounds. The result is a twelve-minute piece played con...

for string quartet. Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art.' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the impu...

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality, resulting in an appea...

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality, resulting in an appea...

This intense work is inspired by a photograph of Zhou Long's wife Chen Yi face to face with a hawk that had landed near their house. The music is filled with eerie slides and dynamic changes, with a f...

When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the 'Slavonic' style, quickly ach...

World premiere on June 7, 1981 in New York, Carnegie Hall: Thouvenel Quartet (Eugene Purdue, Teresa Fream, Sally Chisholm, Jeffrey Levenson)

World premiere on January 26, 1993 in New York: An ensemble of the Juillard School

World premiere on November 4, 1983 in Hamburg. Auryn Quartet - Matthias Lingenfelder (1st violin), Jens Oppermann (2nd violin), Steuart Eaton (viola), Andreas Arndt (violoncello)

Never and Always Becoming is a 28-minute string quartet. In this work, his ninth string quartet, the composer combines constant rising with the ideal of a perpetual acceleration canon.

My second string trio is a more large-scale piece than the compact, single-movement first, written just over a decade ago. It is made up of seven short movements, each one picking up an idea, or a not...

String Quartet No. 2 – Lion’s Teeth by Sebastian Hilli unfolds an expressive world of sound that thrives on contrasts. Inspired by the origin of the word dandelion – dent de lion, the "lion’s tooth" –...

With the 4th String Quartet op. 22, Paul Hindemith opens up new areas of expression and consistently develops his quartet art further. In five contrasting movements, the work combines contrapuntal den...

Bella Máté composed his violin-cello duo Airambulum in 2024. The piece has two movements. The first, titled Air, is a slow, mournful piece based on one of the closing themes from his opera-oratorio Pa...