Advanced Sheet Music for String Ensemble

Song Recollections is based on the beautiful folk music of Taiwanese aboriginal tribes, which I fell in love with many years ago. My good friends from Taiwan introduced these songs to me when I was a...

The slow movement uses a theme reminiscent of a folktune. Korngold incorporated this theme into the sound track for the film 'The Sea Wolf'.

The five strings quartets by Jörg Widmann are compact studies, like those of his teacher Wolfgang Rihm. Performed individually, the focus is on the respective central technical and aesthetic idea. Per...

Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actu...

'I have always had a great fondness for the works by Schumann', Aribert Reimann once said. There exists a close relationship even beyond the music: As owner of Schumann's medical records from the ment...

René Eespere ist einer der bekanntesten lebenden musikalischen Zeitgenossen Estlands. Er studierte bei A. Chatschaturjan und A. Nikolajev in Moskau. Seine Kompositionen zeichnen sich durch eine sauber...

1. Allegro con moto2. Andante mesto (Et in Arcadia ego)3. Scherzo (Allegro grazioso)4. AllegroTobias wurde als Sohn eines Küsters auf der Insel Hiiumaa (Estland) geboren und ist der erste estnische Ko...

1. Allegro moderato e maestoso2. Scherzo. Allegro vivace3. Nachtstück4. Finale. Allegro con brioTobias wurde als Sohn eines Küsters auf der Insel Hiiumaa (Estland) geboren und ist der erste estnische...

Score available: KP00247 Ruders writes: Quartet No. 3 'Motet' was written in 1979, commissioned by the Lerchenborg music-week of 1979 during which it was first performed by Quatuor Bernède. This short...

A sparkling arrangement of Rossini's famous "Largo al Factotum" from The Barber of Seville, capturing all the wit, bustle and bravura of Figaro's celebrated entrance aria. Skillfully arranged for stri...

Composer, pianist, writer and educator Joaquin Turina was born in Seville in 1882 and was active mainly in Spain until his death in 1949. His work is influenced by traditional Andalusian idioms. The S...

Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA London 22nd October 1995.

String Quartet No. 13 'Mutual Ordering' was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2013. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet.

String Quartet No. 14 'Well-Tuned Sounds' was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2013. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet.

All In One for 3 String Quartets was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2013 (String Quartet No. 12, 13 and 14 played simultaneously). Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has written acollection of three new...

Quartetto for String Quartet by Bo Holten was composed in 2014.

String Quartet No. 7 'The Extinguishable' was composed by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen in 2014.