Miniature Quartet No. 2

Prussian Quartet No.4 Edition : study score Instrumentation : string quartet Catalogue of works : Hob. III: 47 Number of Pages : 24 Arranger : Altmann, Wilhelm Series : Eulenburg Miniature Scores Scores

Instrumentation : string quartet Version : study score Contenu : I. Introduzione. Andante espressivo-Allegro - II. Scherzo. Presto-Intermezzo - III. Adagio - IV. Presto Nombre de pages : 52 Collection : Eulenburg Miniature Scores Format : ETP small

Instrumentation : string quartet Version : study score Contenu : I. Allegro vivace - II. Andante quasi Variazioni - III. Scherzo. Presto - IV. Allegro molto vivace Nombre de pages : 36 Collection : Eulenburg Miniature Scores Format : ETP small

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement. Duration: c. 13' This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized). American-Finnish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality. His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

miniature score is IMC915. Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

String Quartet #2 was commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh as a solo dance work: Miniatures. It was first performed by her with the Balanescu Quartet on 15 September 1988, London. Duration 22 minutes. Score available on sale. / Quatuor A Cordes