John Luther Adams' Everything That Rises for String Quartet. Composers note: I never imagined I would write a string quartet. Then I heard the JACK Quartet and I understood how Imight be able to make the medium my own. The result was The Wind in High Places - a twenty-minute work composed entirely on natural harmonics and open strings. Over the next few years twomore quartets followed. The second quartet  untouched  is a further exploration of the aeolian sound world of the first. Then in Canticles of the Sky the musicians finally touch the fingerboards of theirinstruments. And now comes Everything That Rises. This fourth quartet is more expansive both in time and in space. It grows out of Sila: The Breath of the World - aperformance-length choral/orchestral work composed on a rising series of sixteen harmonic clouds. Everything That Rises traverses this same territory but in a much more melodic way. Each musician isa soloist playing throughout. They surround the audience. Time floats. Over the course of an hour the lines spin out - always rising - in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiralupward... until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows sighing. Duration: 60 minutes

John Luther Adams' Canticles Of The Sky for String Quartet. Composer's Note: In the Arctic sky the low angle of the sun and heavy ice crystals in the air often produce vivid halos arcs andsundogs (parhelia). Sometimes these phenomena create the illusion of multiple suns. 'Sky With Four Suns' is a musical evocation of such an apparition from sunrise to sunset. Similar visions also occur at night which isthe image behind 'Sky With Four Moons.' 'Sky With Nameless Colors' and 'Sky With Endless Stars' evoke the extraordinary depth and clarity of Sonoran Desert skies. This music is drawn from Canticles of the Holy Wind– a concert-length work for four choirs and vocal soloists. In this version sixteen separate choral parts have been condensed into the string quartet. String designations should be carefully observed. Frequent stringcrossings are employed to create as lush and continuous textures as possible. All sounds should be legato. Bowing is free and full throughout. Total performance duration is about 18:00

Variable wind quartet (with percussion). Par DE HAAN JACOB. 'Un jour à la ferme', une composition à 4 voix de Jacob de Haan qui ravira votre auditoire.Voix 1 Fl Htb Cl. Si?/Mi? Sax. S. Trp Voix 2 Fl Cor Angl. Cl. Si? Cl. Alto Sax. A. Trp Cor Voix 3 Cl. B. Cl. Alto Sax. T. Basson Cor Trb Euph. Voix 4 Cl. B. Sax. B. Basson Trb Trb B. Euph. Tuba C. Cordes Opt. Mallets Timb. Perc. / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / Quatuor à Vent Variable avec Percussions

The Drift Of The Waters Parts-Lu s Tinoco's O Curso Das Águas (The Drift Of The Waters) for Wind Quartet (Bassoon Clarinet Cor Anglais/Oboe d'Amore/Oboe and Flute).This work was published in 2001. The first performance wasby the Gulbenkian Orchestra Soloists Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and took place on 23rd April 2001.

A series of popular music for working string quartets. Light enjoyable repertoire pieces and entertaining encores. Each folio contains five pieces. Contents: \'Bridge Over Troubled Water\', \'Candle In The Wind\', \'(Everything I Do) I Do It For You\', \'Killing Me Softly With His Song\', \'Without You\'. / Quatuor A Cordes