Classical Music for String Quartet

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.. ich gehe alle Sonntage um 12 uhr zum Baron van suiten - und da wird nichts gespiellt als Händl und Bach. - ich mach mir eben eine Collection von den bachischen fugen - so wohl Sebastian als Emanuel...

Die hier vorgelegte Komposition ist noch zu Rachmaninows Studienzeit entstanden. Auch wenn man den Einfluss seiner Lehrer Arensky und Tanejew, und vor allem der Persönlichkeit des von ihm hochverehrte...

Das einzige Kammermusikwerk des großen finnischen Meisters. Wie schon der Titel andeutet, sind die 5 Sätze Dichtungen in zarter, intimer Tonsprache.

Inhalt: Direktion und Einzelstimmen Violine 1 + 2, Viola, Violoncello

Inhalt: Direktion und Einzelstimmen Violine 1 + 2, Viola, Violoncello 1. Jesu, meine Freude, Crüger, Johann; 2. Abendruhe, KV Anh. C 9.10, Mozart, W. A.

Inhalt: Direktion und Einzelstimmen Violine 1 + 2, Viola, Violoncello

Inhalt: Direktion und Einzelstimmen Violine 1 + 2, Viola, Violoncello 1. Aus meines Herzens Grunde, BWV 269; 2. Ich dank dir, lieber Herre, BWV 347

The Agnus Dei by Georges Bizet is a work of great purity, filled with calm and gentle expression. Originally coming from a larger vocal context, it shows Bizet's fine melodic sense. The flowing main l...

The Agnus Dei by Georges Bizet is a work of great purity, filled with calm and gentle expression. Originally coming from a larger vocal context, it shows Bizet's fine melodic sense. The flowing main l...

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...

Although the string quartet was a rarely used form in 19th-century Russia, Tchaikovsky and Borodin both produced superb, inventive compositions in the genre. This volume collects Tchaikovsky's String...

It is hard to believe that Benjamin Britten was 16 when he wrote the Quartettino, such is the skill and intellectual command. Peter Stadlen, The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1983

Benjamin Britten wrote his 'String Quartet in F' in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge. He was fourteen at the time and it is thought that this piece was set as a homework ex...

Three atmospheric Wintry pieces. One of the most prolific British composers of the 20th century, William Alwyn (1905-85) produced almost three hundred compositions in most genres: opera, ballet, orche...

Das Scherzo hat der Komponist später in seinem Divertimento für Fagottquartett wieder verwendet.

In op. 47, which enriches the literature with two cellos, Scholz achieves a passion and warmth of expression, a 'higher peculiarity of reflection on the essential' that should make music makers sit up...

First Edition

The C minor string quartet was written in 1832 as the last string quartet and is compositionally on the most mature level. Mendelssohn is still perceptible, but Fröhlich has already resorted to his or...