Sheet Music by Women Composers for String Ensemble: Versatile Works

Das Quartett Nr. 1 in Es-Dur zeigt, dass sie sich auch in Bezug auf die musikalische Qualität nicht hinter den frühen Werken dieser anerkannten Meister verstecken muss. Auch das zweite der sechs Quart...

Late 20th century chamber music radiating energy, colour and life!

Fluid in texture and tempo - hypnotically mercurial variations of timbre and rhythm Each part contains the other 3 instruments printed small, making the co-ordination of this complex music a pleasure...

Cicada larvae live underground for years, creeping about slowly and peacefully in the darkness until that sudden, beautiful brief moment when, one warm, damp summer's eve, they emerge, metamorphosed i...

A finely structured web in an entirely original sound world.

These three pieces form a very short instrumental opera, based on the life of James Reid, a bagpiper in Prince Charlie's Jacobite army, who was captured by the English in 1746, and executed after a ju...

Herrmann, Traudl, arr. Meditation über das Prélude in G-Dur BWV1007

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: 'When one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imita...

TACHUN (SPRING OUTING) was composed in 2021 for The Joy Project, to commission uplifting works for performance at free outdoor concerts in the San Francisco Bay region. The work's title comes from the...

“Spring Vitality,” the first movement of Chen Yi's SONG OF SPRING for string quartet, embeds rhythmic speech in quietly churning fragments of polyphony to suggest the sounds of falling rain, sure to c...

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...

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...

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...

A Room Of One's Own (2020) is a work composed for eight string instruments by Britta Byström. The work is 9 minutes long.

Aure is a work by Kaija Saariaho for Violin and Viola, originally composed as an homage to Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday. Aure was first performed on 19th August 2011, as part of the festival 'Les I...

Das Spielen im Duo macht sowohl professionellen Musikern als auch Laien viel Freude und gibt kreative Impulse für das Musizieren. Die Klangverbindung unterschiedlicher Streichinstrumente übt durch die...

An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and de...