Composée pour Alto la partition Sonate Rhapsodique Opus 61 de Tchesnokov Dimitri des éditions Billaudot touche un public sachant apprécié la musique Classique. / Alto / Partition

For Violin I Violin II Viola Violoncel og Klaver-Parts for Niels Viggo Bentzon's Kvintet For Violin I Violin II Viola Violoncel og Klaver Opus 196.

Opus 165-Set of parts for Kvartet VII Opus 165 /String Quartet No.7 by Niels Viggo Bentzon.

This lively 'Pizzicato' encore brings the house down! A foot-tapping ragtime rhythm. David Marsh has asked for his royalties to be redirected in favour of The Neurofibromatosis Association (see www.nfauk.org). Double basses are optional.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

The first in a series of Ten quartets commissioned by the Naxos recording company. First performed at Wigmore Hall London in Oct 2002 by the Maggini Quartet. A convenient miniature-sized version of the score intended for study.Performance parts are available available: CH65648-01

Britten's Elegy was first performed at The Maltings in Snape Suffolk by Nobuko Imai in 1984 as part of the 37th Aldburgh festival. This beautiful piece was originally sketched by Britten in 1930 upon leaving school at the age of sixteen.

Set of parts for Strygekvartet VI /String Quartet No. 6 'Parting' (1983) by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. Score: WH31581

String Quartet No. 5 was composed by Rued Langgaard in 1925 and rev. 1926-38. BVN 189

The second String Quartet by Joan Tower is a short but complex work addressing thoughts of death and loss written in memory of an old friend. The piece was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Tokyo String Quartet who firstperformed the piece in February 2002 at the 92nd Street Y New York City.Further inspired by the events in New York on September 11th 2001 the writing contains high sustained celestial material which slowly descends. Thiswriting is paired with more forceful driving and repetitive musical ideas that attempt to express the anger and pain that results from the loss of people in one's life.

String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the Arditti Quartet. Programme note: The basic idea for my Fourth String Quartet was very clear to me: It should be quiet and soft music or to put it in a german term: 'hoch im Himmel gesungen ...' (”High singing in heaven…”). Each of the four movements has a different scordatura/pitch. The first movement begins – like my work ”Schnee” – sky-high with an airy and soft melody by the first violin. The second movement is fast and ”movement andjoy”-like. It consists of two duets and a reverse style counterpoint. While the sections were progressively longer in the first movement they are getting shorter and shorter in the second. ”Dark heavy and earthy” is the third movement and its pizzicato recalls big black raindrops falling to the ground. It is the dark and grainy counterpart to the first movement whereas the fourth movement corresponds to the second. The fourth movement was planned as a dark and heavy counterpart but it turned out to be like ”babbling” music of a child. My Fourth String Quartet has become in its way a serene and cool piece. So the Quartet has been finished luckyly after twenty years – it was already in 1990 that I was commissioned by Wittener Tage für Neue Musik to write the piece for Arditti Quartet. Hans Abrahamsen

String Quartet No. 4 'Sommerdage'/'Summer Days' was composed by Rued Langgaard in 1914-18. BVN 215

This work was commissioned by the Naxos Recording Company and is the eighth in a series of ten quartets. It was first performed on 10th March 2006 by the Maggini Quartet at St. Gregory’s Centre Canterbury Christ ChurchUniversity Canterbury as part of the Sounds New Festival.Naxos Quartet No. 8 is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen on her 80th birthday.

Three Études For Viola was composed by American composer and arranger Nico Muhly. Written for Nadia Sirot one of Muhly's friends. Three Études For Viola was designed as performance pieces as well as practice the Études help to deal with the messy fifth-based string crossings Muhly's harmonic language sometimes outlines. These three études can be performed in any order all together or singularly. The pre-recorded material for Three Études For Viola should be mixed in such a way that the Viola rides in the middleof the texture. Étude 2 however should favour the solo Viola. Download the pre-recorded element  HERE . If you encounter any problems please email promotion@musicsales.co.uk .