SKU: HL.14030980
ISBN 9788759871973. 12.0x16.0x0.285 inches.
Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angel's Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angel's Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part of the piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angel's Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the general pattern almost fractionally into the smallest cells of the music, or more correctly; crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'.
SKU: HL.14042753
ISBN 9780711965423. 9.25x12.0x0.323 inches.
A series of popular music for working string quartets. Light enjoyable repertoire pieces and entertaining encores. Each folio contains five pieces. Contents: 'Moon River', 'Schindler's List', 'Speak Softly Love', 'Theme FromE.T.', 'A Whole New World'.
SKU: HL.48024901
ISBN 9781784545697. UPC: 840126930719. 7.25x10.25 inches.
Turnage's fourth string quartet, Winter's Edge, was premiered by the Piatti Quartet at the Klarafestival, Brussels. Co-commissioned by the Quartet, the Wigmore Hall and Flagey ASBL, they gave the UK premiere at the Wigmore Hall, London. This 20-minute work is made p of four numbered movements and which proceed without a break. Suitable for advanced standard performers.
SKU: HL.49045974
ISBN 9790001192132. UPC: 841886020023. 9x12 inches.
The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Children's Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908. The style corresponds to that of ragtime, a dance which was in vogue around the turn of the century. In the middle section, he parodies several times the beginning of the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner with whom Debussy had a rather ambiguous relationship. The present arrangement now allows musicians to play the popular movement in a version for string quartet.
SKU: HL.14043728
8.25x11.75x0.061 inches.
This is the Full Score for Eleanor's Piece , composed by Hugh Wood for two string quartets. This beautiful work lasts around 3 minutes. Born in Lancashire and enjoying a thoroughly musical upbringing, Hugh Wood graduated from Oxford after studying History and decided that composition was his true calling. His works are characterised by divine expressionism and subtle lyricism, with Eleanor's Wood being no exception.
SKU: HL.14015190
ISBN 9788759882009. English.
Vagn Holmboe's String Quartet No.12 ('12. Quartetto') / Strygekvartet Nr.12 Op.116 (1973).
Parts available: WH29311A
SKU: HL.14015197
ISBN 9788759884553. English.
Vagn Holmboe 's String Quartet No.9 ('9.Quartetto') / Strygekvartet Nr.9 Op.92 (1966). Parts available: WH28992A.