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Richard Ayres' Three Small Pieces for String Quartet each have distinct characters that illustrate the composer's vivid imagination and skill for combining energetic, touching and sometimes wild music...

Originating as the musical equivalent of a work of conceptual art, this piece has various performing versions, often arising from particular occasions and environments. All the materials used are deri...

Watkins' String Quartet, set in three movements, showcases the range of emotions the composer is able to conjure through music. The piece works from gently ebbing lyrical episodes into virtuosic, impa...

The title of Barry's fourth string quartet refers to a Kafka story of the same name about a trapeze artist who is happy only when aloft. This is striking music, full of fragility, beauty, outbursts an...

Author and arranger Barrie Carson Turner presents a selection of 8 traditional pieces arranged for string quartet. The collection includes: Bandura Waltz (Ukranian), East Tennessee Blues (American), I...

This extremely virtuoso string quartet setting uses its three main sections to describe a way from the imaginative search of melodies and sounds via rhythmic ecstasy to an initially third-heavy epilog...

Diese Neuausgabe veröffentlicht die bekannten fünf Sätze in der - wohl von Schulhoff autorisierten - Druckfassung von 1925, obwohl diese teilweise stark vom vollständig erhaltenen Autograph abweicht....

This cheerful birthday serenade, composed in the style of Mozart and arranged by Dietrich Paul, uses the well-known birthday songs 'Happy Birthday to You' (1st theme) and 'Hoch soll er leben' (2nd the...

Ein wenig Berliner Luft geschnuppert, den Leierkasten angeworfen und ab geht es in's Metropol-Theater: zu einem Reigen zündender Melodien Paul Linckes, der anfangs des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die 'Gol...

This string quartet by a grand master of the German avant-garde combines a decidedly traditional four-movement structure with experimental situations in the concert hall. In various sections the perfo...

Dvorak's Sonatina in G major for violin and piano, Op. 100 is one of the most popular original works of the Romantic period. It is part of the standard repertoire in music lessons. Our arrangement for...

The title of Thomas Larcher's third string quartet, Madhares, refers to the name of a deserted place on the island of Crete which inspired him to compose this work. Larcher developed the piece from re...

During the years of their exile in America, Paul and Gertrud Hindemith regularly met with two young violinists for private music-making. When Hindemith arranged the first of his 'Drei leichte Stücke f...

'A coming and going...' - this is how Barbara Heller describes the essence of her second string quartet La Caleta ('small bay'). Barbara Heller got the inspiration to write this work from the calm, ge...

Patchwork, the third string quartet by Barbara Heller, with its cheerful and light character, is an enjoyable piece. Playfully flowing figures, often in pizzicato, alternate with 'still soundscapes'....

There is hardly any other lullaby in the field of classical music - apart from Brahms' 'Guten Abend, gute Nacht' - that has gained such popularity as George Gershwin's (1898-1937) 'Summertime'. It is...