Thomas Adès
The 4 Quarters
for String Quartet - Set of Parts
PDF
view
Thomas Adès
The 4 Quarters
for String Quartet - Set of Parts
- Instrumentation String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola and Cello)
- Composer Thomas Adès
- Edition Set of Parts
- Publisher Faber Music
- Order no. 0571540120
ships within 3-6 working days
incl. tax,
excl. shipping costs
Not available in all countries. Learn more
Description:
Thomas Adès's second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade - Morning Dew . A sombre third movement, Days, is underpinned by a searching ostinato before the work breaks free from conventional time in The Twenty-Fifth Hour , the glittering finale which swings and dances in the unusual time signature of 25/16.