Advanced Sheet Music for String Ensemble

Commissioned by the Swiss Braunwald Music Festival Week 2007, Redel takes up the festival theme of 'Folk music as a source of art music' in three movements: here, he refers to concrete folk songs or f...

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...

Die im Titel genannten Namen beziehen sich auf Allegra Mostyn-Owen und Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen ist die einzige Tochter der italienischen Dichterin Gaia Servadio und des Historikers Mostyn-O...

The long-term friendship between Anne-Sophie Mutter and Krzysztof Penderecki has not only produced the second violin concerto ('Metamorphoses') and the second sonata for violin, but also the new Duo c...

Dans le pays natal du compositeur chinois, la fleur du pêcher est un symbole de recommencement et d'immortalité. Dans cette (oEuvre, des fleurs tourbillonnantes sont dotées d'un symbolisme visuel impr...

Partitur und Stimmen - Partitur mit eingelegter Geigenstimme

Eli lamah asabthani - My God, why have you left me', this word of Jesus Christ on the cross has been set to instrumental music in the slow movement of the string trio. Taken as an individual setting,...

Epitaphium' wurde ursprünglich für die Trauerfeier des 2007 verstorbenen britischen Fagottisten und Musikwissenschaflters William Waterhouse geschrieben. Der Komponist Graham Waterhouse wollte seinem...

The first movement is characterized by the interplay between a delicate, almost fragile theme and its extremely harsh development. The second is melodic and the third tonally repetitive. The finale al...

Yun's third string quartet was created shortly after he moved to Europe and was considered by him to be his first valid quartet. Up until recently, only a pocket score of the important early work was...

String Quartet No. I

In this piece, commissioned by the WDR and premiered by the Quatuor Diotima in Witten in 2016, Johannes Boris Borowski shows that, to him, the string quartet genre is a rewarding field of experimentat...

Olga Neuwirths Streichquartett, entstanden 2009, ist eine Hommage an den US-amerikanischen Künstler Henry Darger und dessen erst posthum entdecktes, reich illustriertes gleichnamiges Buchmanuskript. D...

Im Auftrag des SWR für die Reihe attacca - geistesgegenwart musik' geschrieben und 2017 vom Minguet Quartett in Stuttgart uraufgeführt, ist dieses Werk bereits der zweite Beitrag des Komponisten zur K...

The title is a quote from the essay 'The Rose of Paracelsus' by Jorge Luis Borges. This parable is about the secret of the creation of a miracle, the disappearance and reappearance of the rose as well...

4 STRINGS - Drei im Schwierigkeitsgrad ansteigende Sammlungen mit zeitgenössischem Repertoire für Streichquartett von führenden Komponisten die anregen, das Ensemblespiel zu entdecken und weiterzuentw...

This is the first volume in a new series of string quartet collections of repertory of the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet.The ensemble has been commissioning music since it was founded in 197...

De Haske's best-selling Pops for String Quartet series offers excellent arrangements for intermediate string quartets who want to bring some classic pop to their performances. Bohemian Rhapsody is a s...

This short string quartet is the third that Casken has written for the renowned Lindsays. It is an ideal introduction to the contemporary string quartet, well within the capabilities of student quarte...