8 Evergreens für Streicher-Popular classics brilliantly arranged for string quartet. Perfect light repertoire for weddings busking concerts or just for fun.Air (Bach)Leaning on a Lamp-post (Gay)Maria (Bernstein)Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Sherwin)Rondo alla Turca (Mozart)Slavonic Dance 8 (Dvorak)Träumerei (Schumann)Waltz Op12 (Grieg)

Pour Quator á Cordes-Born in 1947 Laurent Duvillier-Wable trained under pianist Suzanne Joly and studied composition with Michel Puig. The latter a student of Ren? Leibowitz introduced him to the mysteries of Sch?nberg and Webern's twelve-note composition. To create a coherent œuvre Duvillier-Wable drew on the array of possibilities offered by chamber music in his series of six Sonatas composed between 1992 and 2007. Sonata IV For String Quartet was written in 1994 the year his father – painter Ren? Duvillier a friend of Charles Estienne and Andr? Breton – fell gravely ill. Divided into four movements thecomposition contains two beautifully expressive musical references: the Lamento religioso refers to Bach's Passion according to Saint Matthew by quoting the choral 'Was ist die Ursache aller solcher Plagen' (No.19: What is the cause of all this suffering?) when Jesus distressed by his imminent agony asks his disciples to watch over him. The Agitato final borrows the inexorable 'Must it be? It must!' theme from Beethoven's Quartet No.16 in F that crowns this poignant work.

Excellent training material for string quartet using only 1st & 3rd Positions throughout.Including Handel's Overture from The Royal Fireworks and two matching movements from Bach's famous Suite in D (Air and Gavotte).

Par BEFFA KAROL. Clin d'?il au recueil de sonnets de mon ami Guillaume Métayer (Caractères, 2017), Libre jeu est en trois mouvements qui peuvent être interprétés indépendamment. En concevant l'ensemble, j'avais présent à l'esprit le type d'écriture caractéristique des pièces de Bach pour instrument à cordes soliste (violon ou violoncelle). Comme j'ai tendance à privilégier l'harmonie en musique, j'ai adopté une écriture qui, à partir d'un instrument essentiellement monodique, soit à même de donner une sensation d'harmonie et de polyphonie. C'est pourquoi j'ai voulu dessiner une ligne mélodique qui, par ses inflexions, puisse suggérer la superposition des voix. À cet effet, j'ai multiplié les effets de doubles, triples, et parfois quadruples cordes, dont certaines à vide, pour souligner, comme au fusain, telle partie de la mélodie, telle expression. Quant au mouvement central, ses thèmes s'inspirent d'une idée que j'avais eue à l'âge de quatorze ans - une reprise « d'après de vieux cahiers », selon la jolie formule de Prokofiev. Je remercie Arnaud Thorette pour ses suggestions. Karol BEFFA / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Alto

Pour Quator á Cordes-Born in 1947 Laurent Duvillier-Wable trained under pianist Suzanne Joly and studied composition with Michel Puig. The latter a student of Ren? Leibowitz introduced him to the mysteries of Sch?nberg and Webern's twelve-note composition. To create a coherent œuvre Duvillier-Wable drew on the array of possibilities offered by chamber music in his series of six Sonatas composed between 1992 and 2007. Sonata IV For String Quartet was written in 1994 the year his father – painter Ren? Duvillier a friend of Charles Estienne and Andr? Breton – fell gravely ill. Divided into four movements thecomposition contains two beautifully expressive musical references: the Lamento religioso refers to Bach's Passion according to Saint Matthew by quoting the choral 'Was ist die Ursache aller solcher Plagen' (No.19: What is the cause of all this suffering?) when Jesus distressed by his imminent agony asks his disciples to watch over him. The Agitato final borrows the inexorable 'Must it be? It must!' theme from Beethoven's Quartet No.16 in F that crowns this poignant work.

for piano quartet. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turned out. 2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never before had I composed under these drugged conditions – the musical dimensions were enormously exaggerated, with each interval and each phrase being elongated out of all proportion, and the whole few minutes filling the whole of time and space. The orchestration, for piano quartet, was influenced by the very neo-classical feel of the chamber version of the concertos, and the harmonic language very much the result of pondering Chopin’s very individual take on J.S Bach. They are dedicated to James MacMillan and Amelia Freedman respectively. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2010)/ Répertoire / Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle

String Quartet F major op. 135-Beethoven’s Op. 135 one of the last works he composed is equally famous for its compositional clarity and for the inadequacy of previous editions. The problem lies in the surviving sources forBeethoven’s autograph score contains a great many contradictions compared to his autograph set of parts. In 1827 after Beethoven’s death the German publisher of the first edition posthumously ironed out thesediscrepancies as he saw fit and later editions simply adopted his interventions. Rainer Cadenbach’s volume is the first attempt to produce an authoritative text for Op. 135. Beethoven’s contradictoryformulations are laid bare allowing musicians to make their own decisions. This ambitious new edition also finds room for ideal page turns.

String Quartet F major op. 135-Beethoven’s Op. 135 one of the last works he composed is equally famous for its compositional clarity and for the inadequacy of previous editions. The problem lies in the surviving sources forBeethoven’s autograph score contains a great many contradictions compared to his autograph set of parts. In 1827 after Beethoven’s death the German publisher of the first edition posthumously ironed out thesediscrepancies as he saw fit and later editions simply adopted his interventions. Rainer Cadenbach’s volume is the first attempt to produce an authoritative text for Op. 135. Beethoven’s contradictoryformulations are laid bare allowing musicians to make their own decisions.

Arranged For Clarinet, Flûte, Harp And Two Violas. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Dans la période précédant l'année de Schumann 2010, Reimann maintenant présente une des oeuvres de la littérature de la clarinette dans un arrangement tonalement sublime pour clarinette, flûte, harpe et deux altos dans laquelle Reimann standards a laissé inchangé complètement la partie solo originale. Reimann a écrit l'arrangement pour le clarinettiste Jörg Widmann comme une preuve de leur admiration conjointe de Schumann. La première a eu lieu au festival de musique de chambre renommée Spannungen en Heimbach en juin 2009./ Répertoire / Clarinette en A, Flûte Traversière, Harpe et 2 Alt