Mouvement 60 Cordes Poch

This Simple Symphony is entirely based on material from works which the composer wrote between the ages of nine and twelve. (The actual sources are given in footnotes to each movement.) Although the development of these themes is in many places quite new, there are large stretches of the work which are taken bodily from the early pieces - save for the re-scoring for strings. It is suitable for string quartets or string orchestras, being scored for Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello and Double Bass.

Antonín Dvorák
Quatuor à cordes en Ut majeur op. 61
Peter Jost (Editeur)
Edition Urtext, Studien-Edition (partition de poche), reliure paperback
Composé à l’automne 1881, l’opus 61 est le dernier des quatuors de Dvořák appelés, chronologiquement parlant, quatuors «du milieu», et dont les modèles déterminants furent Beethoven et Schubert. Dans cette œuvre en Ut majeur, c’est surtout l’influence de Beethoven qui se fait plus particulièrement sentir, de la construction thématique jusqu’au travail motivique, et c’est seulement dans le Finale que l’inflexion si typiquement slave coutumière à Dvořák se fait plus fortement entendre. Par manque de temps, le compositeur - à l’opposé de ses habitudes - a fait appel, dans trois des quatre mouvements, à d’anciens thèmes d’autres œuvres, rejetés ou non publiés. Cette édition Urtext parfaitement fiable s’inscrit dans la continuité de la vaste série d’œuvres significatives de musique de chambre de Dvořák chez Henle. / Partitions classique / Ensemble et orchestre / Musique de chambre / HENLE VERLAG

String Quartet was composed by Mumbai-born Brian Elias in 2012 and was commissioned by the Jerusalem String Quartet. Lasting around 20 minutes this is the full score of the work arranged for Violin I Violin II Viola and Cello. The work has been laid out in the conventional four movements Allegro Adagio Presto Adagio-Allegro-Adagio but it is essentially a work in a single movement to be performed withno breaks. A set of double variations generates the thematic and harmonic material for the entire piece in its first few bars with a brilliant Viola solo afterwards. Throughout the piece changes in dynamics and tempocharacterise the different movements before finally ending with a calming return to the slow music.  You can purchase the individual instrument  Parts here.

Par SUK JOSEF. First scholarly-critical edition The single-movement String Quartet #2 by Josef Suk (1874-1935) was written at the height of his compositional powers. Completed in Krecovice in May 1911, this demanding work, with its complex harmonies and motivic structure, seemed avant-garde for its day: the Berlin premiere of November 1912 was accompanied by protests from the audience. Now Zdenek Nouza has edited the first scholarly-critical edition of this piece. The principal source is the first edition in full score, published by Simrock in Berlin. But Nouza has also consulted the printed parts (containing additions of great interest to performers) as well as the engraver's copy used for the printed score (with autograph corrections from the composer) and additional sources such as sketches. - First Urtext edition - Foreword (Cz/Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor/ Répertoire / Conducteur de Poche