SKU: SU.00114330

This disk contains performance materials for an enormous collection of string quartets from master composers. Included are works of Bartók, Borodin, Cherubini, Chopin, Debussy, Fuchs, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Schumann, Smetana, Verdi, Wolf and many more, for an offering of 4,000 pages of music. Included also are articles on the lives of the composers and other relevant entries from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians

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SKU: TM.540-3038SET

Haydn - Serenade, God Save Francis the Emperor; Mozart - Minuet from Quartet in Eb; Beethoven - Cavatine from Quartet op. 130, Minuet from Septet op. 20; Mendelssohn - Canzonetta from Quartet op. 12; Cherubini - Scherzo from Quartet in Eb; Bach - Aria My Faithful Heart; Handel - Largo from Xerxes; Hasse - Canzona; Boccherini - Minuet; Schumann - Dreaming from Scenes from Childhood op. 15.

SKU: PR.144402180

UPC: 680160027156. 9.5 x 13 inches.

The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary...