Classical Music for String Quartet

Elgar wrote his musical 'billet doux' in 1888 and dedicated it to his fiancée Caroline Alice Roberts. It was premiered in 1889 and helped to establish Elgar's reputation as a composer. To this day the...

Begun in 1999, the work, which is Kurtág s fourth string quartet, had been completed in 2005. In this suite of 6 movements Kurtág reuses music from other compositions, most often from his long-running...

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The quartet La Fucina di Vulcano refers to the myth of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking, troubled by his jealousy. Gli Amanti Rivali (The Rival Lovers), narrates the story of two lovers...

The Divertimento Notturno is a three-movement Serenata or Cassazione, a popular genre in Austria during the 18th century and conceived as a musical entertainment. The quartet titled La Caccia (The Hun...

String Quartet III was created in Paris in 1947. This is one of G. Bacewiczs most internally balanced works, maybe the closest to the ideal ''Sérénité'', characteristic of Romanesque spirituality. In...

At the end of the 18th century, the town of Cádiz in southern Spain provided the backdrop for a Passion to mark Christ's hour of death; its focal point was the reading and interpretation of Christ's l...

These gems of early classical quartet art are now available again for the first time as a complete edition, with the 'discovery' of a 7th quartet. Required reading!

Dvorák composed his twelfth string quartet in F major op. 96, known as the “American” Quartet, in just twelve days during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa in June 1893. This immensely uplifting...

The present volume contains those ten string quartets of Mozart which have become famous as the composer's greatest contribution to the medium and which are frequently performed in public. According t...

Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Divertimento D major K. 136 (125a) - Divertimento B-flat major K. 137 (125b) - Divertimento F major K. 138 (125c). Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello - set of parts; Urt...

Urtext of the New Schubert Edition. Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello - set of parts; Urtext edition

String quartet - Urtext edition; set of parts

Composed December 1933-February 1934, Britten's Simple Symphony was based on material he wrote between the ages of nine and twelve. 18 minutes.

Das Musizieren im Quartett schult in besonderer Weise die musikalische Entwicklung, das Zusammenspiel, das Aufeinanderhören und die Intonation von jungen Streichern. Was liegt also näher, als den Eins...

Kaum vorstellbar, dass Fanny Hensel von ihrem berühmten Bruder Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy einen 'Handwerkssegen' benötigte, um einige ihrer Werke unter ihrem Namen publizieren zu dürfen. Das Streichq...

Thoughtful arrangements of well-known classical pieces by Mozart,Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Paradies. This collection providesa perfect introduction to classical music and to string quartetplaying...

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...

Suitable for young and adult beginners alike, the pieces with their wide variety of style just seem to be right for concerts as well as for performances in a sacred context. While some of the pieces w...