Advanced Sheet Music for String Ensemble

Drei ineinander übergehende Sätze, das Streichquartett als eine Art Schlaginstrument. Taktwechsel, schnell, Rhythmus, Gegenargument, Konsequenz, Verdichtung, Gestalt, Oszillationsglissandi, homophon,...

Zum Beethoven-Jahr sollten Komponisten ausgewählte Textstellen aus Beethovens Konversationsheften vertonen. York Höllers Text 'fokussierte sich am Ende auf den Satz ‚Das Rad läuft' - darin stecken die...

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize o...

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to Eamonn Quinn, Artistic Director of Louth Contemporary Music Society in Ireland, for his deep empathy, appreciation and great...

Written for the Kronos String Quartet, this piece contains Irish accents and some simple ideas that both convey the composer's enthusiasm for Ireland, the historical fate of which reminds him of his n...

String Quartet No. 1 is one of the most successful and most frequently performed works by Silvestrov. It can be described as a work standing on a threshold between avant-garde and post-avant-garde and...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

Three progressive collections of contemporary string quartet repertoire from leading composers to encourage and facilitate the development of ensemble playing. Compiled and edited by Liz Partridge, ea...

Three progressive collections of contemporary string quartet repertoire from leading composers to encourage and facilitate the development of ensemble playing. Compiled and edited by Liz Partridge, ea...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

Turnage's fourth string quartet, Winter's Edge was premiered by the Piatti Quartet at the Klarafestival, Brussels. Co-commissioned by the Quartet, the Wigmore Hall and Flagey ASBL, they gave the UK pr...

Inspired by the events of September 11th, this three-movement work incorporates recorded voices of NORAD air traffic controllers (North American Aerospace Defense Command), FDNY (Fire Department New Y...

Rest These Hands is an arrangement of three movements form The Violin - a suite of seven pieces for multi-tracked violins. The first movement, also titled Rest These Hands, was originally composed for...

String Quartet No. 1 ('Between the National and the Bristol') was commissioned by the Vienna Festival for the Arditti Quartet to perform in October 1985. '... a great deal of the music is in the high...

String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1990 commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and the Balanescu Quartet.'This second quartet is a more relaxed, easy-going piece than the first

My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacin...

Foreign Tongues explores a different way of looking at the standard string quartet setup. Envisaged as a work where the cello is pitted against the rest of the string players, the piece aims to explor...

Written in a single day in August 2012 while on a residency in Massachusetts, this simple piece makes an interplay with the respective colours of the violin and cello. Both instruments are retuned, ca...

This quartet is in five movements. I wrote the penultimate movement first. It is a personal reflection on William Byrd’s setting of the fifth century hymn ‘Christe, qui lux es et dies’. That ancient m...

String Quartet No. 2 begins and ends with musical ideas that were in the back of my mind in some form or other since my teens. In the process of moving house during 2020 I rediscovered some old minidi...