Classical Music for String Quartet

Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still in...

On the 75th anniversary of PWM Edition, we are delighted to recall that very first publication. Its present edition was prepared by the Meccore string Quartet.   The Second String Quartet is one of th...

The Phantasy, written when the composer was twenty for the Cobbett prize at the Royal College of Music. The piece demonstrates a confidence and flair, as well as an emerging sense of the distinctive A...

Streichquartett Partitur

Das Werk steht den späteren berühmten Streichquartetten des böhmischen Meisterns nicht nach.

Paganini's three string quartets which are his only compositions using the classical string quartet orchestration, were presumably written between 1815 and 1818. As a part of his catalogue of chamber-...

Das mit dem Kammermusikpreis der Birmingham Music Society ausgezeichnete Werk kombiniert Elemente chinesischer Musik mit europäischen Kompositionstechniken und bezieht sich auf das Kinderspiel 'Chines...

Wilhelm Petersen (1890-1957) wrote three string quartets: op. 8 (1923), op. 10 (1923/24) and op. 49 (1947/48). The first two were written in his radically expressive period. Since 1925 Petersen came b...

Best known for his piano compositions and virtuoso performances, Rachmaninoff was also a great composer for other instruments. These movements, edited by David Butler Cannata, are excellent examples.

Commissioned by Jana Marko and Alexander Gérard for the Elbphilharmonie. When I was younger I enjoyed writing program notes for my music - I felt it was a way for me to protect it from possible misund...

Beide Bände enthalten zusammen 58 bekannte und beliebte Streichquartette zu allen Anlässen von Hochzeit bis Todesfall. Zusätzlich zur Original- Streichquartettbesetzung sind 3. Violine (Viola), Klavie...

This is a unique arrangement for string quartet, a work that preserves the beauty of the original work, an icon for sacred music, but at the same time different in essence due to the creative and inno...