Richard Wernick
String Quartet No. 9
Richard Wernick
String Quartet No. 9
- Instrumentation String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola and Cello)
- Composer Richard Wernick
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Theodore Presser Company
- Order no. PRES114-41733
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Description:
String Quartet No. 9 is the fourth that Wernick has written for the Juilliard Quartet. A commission by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Wernick's ninth string quartet was premiered by the Juilliard in November; 2015 and subsequently taken on tour. 'The first movement's affect (marked 'Assertive; Aggressive') [compares] to Rockport's forbidding coastline in the eyes of the first. settlers. This was an apt analogy since the work's musical language is; in today's vernacular; 'gnarly.' [The second movement]...a 'never-ending throb of repeated notes'...the effect of steadily diminishing life-force; though with a 'final burst of hope from the solo cello.' Again; the composer made intriguing use of many of the different ways stringed instruments can produce sound.' Geoffrey Wieting; The Boston Musical Intelligencer