Classical Music for String Quartet

Immerse yourself in the fascinating sound world of chamber music with the expressive 'String Quartet No. 1 Op. 16'. The string quartet has long been regarded as the pinnacle of intimate musical dialog...

Welcher Musiker kennt das Problem nicht: statt Haydn, Mozart oder Beethoven ist etwas 'Leichtes' gefragt. Zur Geburtstagsfeier oder zur Kaffeetafel im Freien, zum Festbankett oder zur Weihnachtsfeier...

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...

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...

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was...

Although Paul Dessau's Second String Quartet is very closely related to twelve-note music, it cannot be said to owe its inspiration to the serial method in the strictest sense. René Leibowitz had intr...

Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a s...

In this work, the quartet becomes a single composite instrument. This instrument cannot play individual sounds but rather composite gestures, of which the initial impulse linked to the production of a...

The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting to...

In his second string quartet the composer Harald Weiss counters our fast-moving time with a work on silence and concentration. Rubatos, fermatas and little caesuras are added to simple note values - l...

Streicherstimmensatz

Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad lib.) oder Streichorchester

Experience one of the most timeless classics of chamber music in the warm, intimate sonic colors of a string quartet: Antonín Dvořák's world-famous "Humoresque in G Major, Op. 101/7". With its unmista...

10 beliebte klassische Melodien, vom Cellovirtuosen Julian Lloyd Webber für Streichquartett brillant arrangiert. Bestens geeignet für Konzerte, Strassen- oder Hausmusik, sowohl für professionelle als...

Amilcare Ponchielli is best known for his opera *La Gioconda*, from which the famous ballet *La Danza delle Ore* is taken. This orchestral scene depicts a choreographed episode that symbolizes the pas...

Amilcare Ponchielli is best known for his opera *La Gioconda*, from which the famous ballet *La Danza delle Ore* is taken. This orchestral scene depicts a choreographed episode that symbolizes the pas...