Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quartets he was 15 years old and a composition student of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. They reveal a strong Mozartian influence while the brilliant piano writing already gives a sense of the mature Beethoven. He may conceivably have written the works for the wealthy Mastiaux family in Bonn, as he gave piano lessons to one of the daughters and the other three siblings played violin, viola and violoncello. The sole source for the quartets is the autograph score which contains many overwritings that shed light on the works' original conception and possible alternative readings. Although Beethoven never published the pieces in his lifetime and is not known to have performed them, he reused their melodic and thematic material in later compositions. Beethoven preserved the autograph score to the end of his days ? perhaps an indication that the quartets meant a great deal to him. The first edition was published by Artaria in Vienna one year after his death, albeit with the pieces in a different order and with many errors in the musical text. Bärenreiter's scholarly performing edition of the Piano Quartets WoO 36 is edited by the Italian pianist Leonardo Miucci, a specialist in the performance practice of keyboard music from this period. The edition not only presents the correct readings, it also sheds light on the young Beethoven's expressive notation and provides a plausible explanation for the distinction he made between dots and strokes to indicate staccato./ Répertoire / Quatuor pour Piano, Violon, Alto et Violoncelle

Ed Hughes' Secret Sky for Piano Quartet.Secret Sky was commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble's Chamber Music 2000 project and has been performed by school children in the south west of England and in the Purcell Room by music college students. The piece lasts 4 minutes and aims to create an evocative sound scape through pools of modal harmony created by a mix of piano repeating patterns and melodies in the 3 strings. As in all my work the ebb and flow of line is important to the development tensions and resolutions of the piece. The piece is probably suitable for players of the standard of at least Grade 6. It can be performed either by violin viola cello andpiano or by 2 violins cello and piano. - Ed HughesCommission made possible by Michael McLaren for his daughter Iona McLaren.

Manfred Trojahn ont amplement dimensionné quatuor avec piano en quatre mouvements d'une durée d'env. 40 minutes a été composé et développé en plusieurs étapes.Les mouvements intérieurs, un Vivace caractérisé par des rythmes lombards et de la vitalité et un adagio de rêve ont été écrits dans l'année Mozart 2005. En 2008, les mouvements extérieurs ont été achevés.L'ouverture Adagio 'Zerbrochenes Lied' est une lamentation d'imposer des morts tandis que le Finale, une profonde, se déplaçant 'Wanderlied', a été consacrée à un ami Trojahn et compositeur Wilhelm Killmayer à l'occasion de son 60e anniversaire.De cette façon, les travaux de Trojahn s'inscrit dans la tradition des quatuors de Mozart pour piano de deux, mais ajoute un élément biographique.C'est un grand, travail musicalement exigeant mais gratifiant pour les musiciens ambitieux. / Violon, Violoncelle, Alto Et Piano