Classical Music for String Quartet

Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as theoriginal version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which find...

A beautiful collection of pieces from the romantic period arrangedfor string quartet, with each instrument given a fair share ofmelodic interest.The Schott String Quartet SeriesWith the first books in...

Immerse yourself in the rich, expressive world of unforgettable melodies with "Come Back to Sorrento – 8 Popular String Quartets", published by Schott Musik. This delightful collection presents timele...

A wonderful collection of romantic pieces arranged for intermediate string quartet, in which every instrument is given an opportunity to demand attention.The Schott String Quartet SeriesWith the first...

Immerse yourself in the expressive soundscapes of the 20th century: The enchanting collection "Chanson de nuit", published by the renowned Schott Music, presents eight selected masterpieces of this er...

Discover the timeless charm of 20th-century music with "Chanson de Matin". This first-class edition from the renowned publisher Schott Music presents eight selected masterpieces in delicate and resona...

Author and arranger Barrie Carson Turner presents a selection of 8 Famous Opera themes arranged for string quartet. The collection includes: Non più andrai (Mozart), Intermezzo (Mascagni), Toreador So...

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...

Set across four movements, 'Quatre Tableaux’ (French for ‘Four Pictures') presents four vignettes that progressively build in intensity. The work begins with a luminous calmness that gradually escalat...

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...

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...

This piece is made of a sequence of eight short movements. It begins with an ascent and a gradual unfurling. We hear a network of voices flowing, pulsating, revolving, crying out. The music moves betw...

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831), a composition student of Josef Haydn, was not only one of the most successful composers of his time, but also an active concert organizer, pianoforte manufacturer, pub...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

Anea is an invented name for a music-crystal modelled on an ionic crystal. It is a piece written in three independent and individual movements which can be played separately or together.Seed I and See...

New incidental music was required for a performance of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about Nothing in the Schönbrunn Schloßtheater in Vienna in 1920. Erich Wolfgang Korngold had already compos...

New incidental music was required for a performance of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about Nothing in the Schönbrunn Schloßtheater in Vienna in 1920. Erich Wolfgang Korngold had already compos...

Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad lib.) oder Streichorchester. Partitur und Stimmen.