SKU: JK.02038
UPC: 093285020382.
A Truly Classic Christmas consists of twelve tasteful Baroque Christmas settings for string quartet, as played by the Piranesi String Quartet. These arrangements are masterfully crafted for advanced players and will liven any Christmas event.Instrumental books are each sold separately.Violin 1 - #02035Violin 2 - #02036Viola - #02037Cello - #02038Songs Included:It Came Upon the Midnight ClearHark! The Herald Angels SingDeck the HallsO TannenbaumAngels We Have Heard on HighGod Rest Ye, Merry GentlemenO Little Town of BethlehemWe Wish You a Merry ChristmasThe Twelve Days of ChristmasWe Three KingsJoy to the WorldOh, Come, All Ye Faithful Composer: VariousArranger: David FickDifficulty: AdvancedReference: Luke 2.
SKU: HL.48183212
Couperin's Concert Pieces for Cello and String Quartet accompaniment is an exciting addition to the string repertoire for its slightly unusual instrumentation. Francois Couperin (1668-1733) is often nicknamed 'Couperin the Great' to distinguish him from other members of the musical family. Concert Piecesis made up of five movements; 1) Prelude, 2) Sicilienne, 3) The Trumpet, 4) The Complaint, and 5) Devil's Air. Couperin's moods are expressed through choices of keys, adventurous harmonies and discords. With a significant amount of variation and inspiration, Concert Pieces is essential to the repertoire of aspiring, advanced String Quartets and solo cellists..
SKU: HL.49019413
ISBN 9790001176477. UPC: 841886016729.
The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leipzig, first privately, then in his composition class at the conservatoire and valued her 'extraordinary compositional talent'. The strict teacher more and more became a committed promoter of the works by Johanna Senfter. For a period of 50 years, the composer concerned herself with the string quartet genre, from Quartet No. 1 in D minor Op. 4, composed shortly after the turn of the century, to the sixth and last Quartet in C minor Op. 115 which was performed for the first time in 1960, one year before her death. The Quartet in F sharp minor Op. 28 is her second quartet which was premiered in Darmstadt on 5 November 1922. In this work, as in later works, Senfter combined traditional form models - here Baroque movements like gavotte, saraband, gigue - with expressive, late Romantic musical language. The work, consisting of six short movements, may without doubt be regarded as a valuable addition to the quartet repertoire.
