SKU: HL.14037707
ISBN 9781849385916. UPC: 884088578626. 8.25x11.75x0.262 inches.
Kevin Volans' String Quartet No. 9: Shiva Dances was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by the Smith Quartet at the 2004 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.Kevin Volans (the composer) notes on the piece:In the past I have been interested in trying to go beyond historicism (1970s), beyond style(1980s) and beyond form (1990s) in my work. Looking back over the music of the twentiethcentury I was struck by the fact the nearlyall of it is extremely 'busy', almost cluttered. Italmost seemed that composers felt compelled to look industrious. In the new millennium Ithought it would be interesting to try and eliminate content. I also aspired to movingfrommusic (sound as art) to art (art as sound). This, of course, has already been done by a numberof composers (many from New York - Phil Niblock and La Monte Young, to name but two), butit was something I had never tried.AlthoughI found it annoying that the label 'minimalist' was given to my African-based work,and fearing this would make the label stick, I set out to write a piece which reflected my loveof minimal painting and architecture. The Japanesehave a term 'wabi' meaning 'voluntarypoverty' or 'emptiness' to describe their restrained minimal aesthetic, an aesthetic which,however, pays greatest attention to the quality of material and fine detail. I like to think thatthelack of excessive pitch material in this piece reflects a kind of voluntary poverty.When Shiva is portrayed dancing (as Nataraj) He is depicted in a circle of flames crushing asmall figure - the ego - underfoot.You get theimpression He dances on the spot, not movingaround at all. I like that.The piece is dedicated to Pablo Pascual Cilleruelo.
SKU: BT.DHP-1175851-070
ISBN 9789043153829. English-German-French-Dutch.
Almost no other song in the history of pop has been covered in as many versions as the Beatles classic Yesterday from 1965. The original contains a string quartet accompaniment that provides the perfect backing for Paul McCartneyâ??s vocal and guitar parts. Nico Dezaire's arrangement recreates the unmistakable sound of the original whilst giving the impression that the entire song ideal was always meant to be played by string instruments. Bijna geen andere song in de geschiedenis van de pop is in zo veel verschillende versies gecoverd als Yesterday, de Beatles-klassieker uit 1965. Het origineel heeft een strijkkwartetbegeleiding die de perfecte backing vormt voor de zang en het gitaarspel van Paul McCartney. Vanuit dat gegeven is het maar een kleine stap naar een arrangement van de song voor alleen strijkkwartet. Deze bewerking van Nico Dezaire roept de oorspronkelijke sound op en geeft tegelijkertijd het idee dat niet alleen de begeleiding maar ook de melodie altijd al bedoeld was geweest om door strijkinstrumenten te worden gespeeld.Wohl kaum ein anderer Song der Popgeschichte wurde in so vielen verschiedenen Versionen bearbeitet wie der Beatles-Klassiker Yesterday aus dem Jahr 1965. Im Original bildet eine Streichquartett-Begleitung die perfekte klangliche Grundlage für Paul McCartneys Sologesang und sein Gitarrenspiel. Was also liegt näher, als den Evergreen gleich in Streichquartett-Besetzung aufzuführen? Nico Dezaires Bearbeitung lässt den Sound der Originalversion unverkennbar durchklingen und vermittelt doch den Eindruck, als sei nicht nur die Begleitung, sondern auch die Melodie selbst schon immer von Streichinstrumenten gespielt worden ... Yesterday, titre incontournables des Beatles composé en 1965, est lâ??une des chansons les plus reprises de lâ??histoire de la musique pop. Lâ??original comprend des parties pour quatuor cordes qui sont parfaites comme accompagnement pour la voix et la guitare de Paul McCartney. Câ??est donc une étape logique dâ??arranger ce titre pour quatuor cordes. La version de Nico Dezaire reproduit le son unique de lâ??original et pourrait même faire croire que même la ligne mélodique était composée pour les cordes lâ??origine !
SKU: HL.14030965
ISBN 9788759861448. English.
Version for String Quartet. Score available: KP00510 The composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo viola, my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided, then, to let my piece borrow the title of Waterhouse's paint-ing: 'The Lady of Shalott'. The picture of a mad-like, pale, and perhaps singing woman alone in a boat without sculls, which calmly slips out from the rush growth of the river is an illustration for the ending of Alfred Tennyson's poem by the same title, which again plaits into the old English legends about King Arthur. My piece tries to meander - like the river at Camelot - among these sources. As suggested above the piece was originally written for viola solo. The version for string quartet is from 1993.'.
SKU: HL.14030964
ISBN 9788759861455. English.
The Composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo Viola, my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided, then, to let my piece borrow the title of Waterhouse's painting: The Lady Of Shalott. The picture of a mad-like, pale, and perhaps singing woman alone in a boat without sculls, which calmly slips out from the rush growth of the river is an illustration for the ending of Alfred Tennyson's poem by the same title, which again plaits into the old English legends about King Arthur. My piece tries to meander - like the river at Camelot - among these sources.' As suggested above the piece was originally written for Viola solo. This version for String Quartet is from 1993.
SKU: SU.91770900
Instrumentation: String Quartet & recorded excerpts from 1946 Gordon Quartet recording of Beethoven String Quartet No. 15, Op. 32 Duration: 6' Composed: 2015 Published by: Subito Music Publishing.
SKU: SU.81001265
String quartet Duration: 10' Composed: 2010 Published by: Red Poppy Ltd.
SKU: SU.81011311
String quartet, audio playback and electronics Duration: 30' Composed: 2006 Published by: Red Poppy Ltd.
SKU: SU.81001300
String quartet and electronics Duration: 12' Composed: 2000 Published by: Red Poppy Ltd.
SKU: SU.81001311
