SKU: FJ.ST6334S
English.
Written when the composer was a mere 15 years old, this jaunty scherzo will take your ensemble on a high-speed ride! Sections take turns bouncing around with the work's catchy melodies before moving into a slow detour with lush and yearning harmonies. The work eventually returns to its original tempo before moving into a delightful and unexpected ending. Fabulous!
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More emphasis on bow technique and independence of lines. For the accomplished middle, high school, college, or professional group. Grade 3 and up
SKU: LM.27679
ISBN 9790230976794.
BACH : Prelude de la 3e partita pour violon - Prelude de la 1re suite pour violoncelle - BEETHOVEN : Quintette pour piano, hautbois, clarinette, basson et cor - Septuor pour clarinette, cor, basson et quatuor a cordes - Sonate Eroica pour piano - Trio pour clarinette, violoncelle et piano - BRAHMS : Quintette pour clarinette et quatuor a cordes - Trio pour clarinette, violoncelle et piano - DEBUSSY : Esquisse technique sur la Rhapsodie - Extraits de la Suite ecossaise, La Mer, Pelleas et Melisande, l'Apres-midi d'un faune - KLOSE : Tarentelle - KREUTZER : Binaire Ternaire - MAYSEDER : Valse - MOZART : Concerto n. 23 pour piano - Quintette pour clarinette et quatuor a cordes - Trio des quilles pour clarinette, alto et piano - PAGANINI : 24e caprice pour violon - RACHMANINOV : Concerto n. 2 pour piano - RODE : Courante - Etude pour violon - Marche - Pralltriller - Scherzo - ROSSINI : 1er et 6e quatuors pour flute ou hautbois, clarinette, cor et basson - SCHUBERT : Octuor pour clarinette, cor, basson quatuor a cordes et contrebasse - SCHUMANN : Kreisleriana Op.16 et Fantaisie Op.12 - SPOHR : Pendule - VERDI : La Force du destin.
SKU: PR.114406980
UPC: 680160010806.
Shula mit Ran’s second string quartet, subtitled “Vistas,†occupies a large canvas that is cast in a traditional fourmovement mold, where the outer movements present, explore, and later return to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and scherzo-type third movement with a trio. In addition to tempo-based titles, the individual movements have subtitles that are evocative of each movement’s character, as follows: I. Concentric: from the inside out II. Stasis III. Flashes IV. Vistas.My second string quartet, “Vistasâ€, is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement.While the four movements’ “proper†names -- Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione; Maestoso e grande – give some indication of the general character of the individual movements, I have also subtitled, less formally, each movement as follows: 1) Concentric: from the inside out 2) Stasis 3) Flashes 4) Vista. The images evoked by these titles tell one, I think, a bit more about the inner workings of the quartet.In the first movement, a prominently presented opening pitch (E) reveals itself, as the movement unfolds, to be a center of gravity from which ever-growing cycles of activity gradually evolve. While various important themes come into being as the movement progresses, their impact on the listener has, I believe, a great deal to do with their juxtaposition and relationship to the initial central point of gravity.Stasis is, as the name implies, a movement where activity seems, at times, almost suspended. Being also, as Webster’s Dictionary reminds us, “a state of static balance and equilibrium among opposing tendencies or forces,†it develops various materials, including ones from the first movement, without bringing them to points of resolution.Flashes is short and very fast, evoking in my mind the quick shimmer of fireflies, a “sudden burst of lightâ€, but also a “brief timeâ€. Perhaps, even, a “smileâ€?Final ly, the last movement, Vista, is not only “a view or outlookâ€, but also “a comprehensive mental view of a series of remembered or anticipated events.â€Â After a brief recall of the opening of the second movement, this movement brings back all the important themes of the first movement in their original order. But just as going back can never really mean going back in time, the movement is much more than recapitulatory. By cutting through previously transitory passages and presenting the main ideas in a fashion more direct yet more evolved, it also sheds new light on earlier events, offering a retrospective, synoptic view of the first movement as it brings to culmination the work as a whole. “Vistasâ € was commissioned by C. Geraldine Freund for the Taneyev String Quartet of what was then Leningrad. It was the first commission given in this country to a Soviet chamber ensemble since the 1985 cultural exchange accord between the Soviet Union and the United States.
SKU: TM.540-3021SET
No. 1 Introduzione (Andante espressivo) – Scherzo (Presto) – Intermezzo – Adagio – Presto, No. 2 Allegro vivace – Andante quasi Variazioni – Molto piu lento – Scherzo (Presto) – Allegro molto, No. 3 Andante espressivo – Assai agitato – Un poco Adagio – Adagio molto – Finale (Allegro molto vivace).
SKU: HL.14036341
ISBN 9780711955080.
Comm issioned by the BBC and premiered by the Chilingirian String Quartet. Quoting Wood: In my Second and Third Quartets I attempted sectional, agglutinative forms: in my Fourth I return to the conventional four movement form of my First Quartet of 1962. Both works build up (as in the 19th century symphony) to the Finale, thus making it the most substantial movement, which provides a climax to the work. The First Movement has, in both works, only the status of an Introduction. But there the consciously willed resemblances end. This Introduction follows the Second Quartet to a certain extent, in that it provides a sort of 'cauldron', from which elements to be used later can all be plucked. Its opening will reappear at various points throughout the work, most completely at a climatic point of the Finale (bar 110). Subsequent material will be more fully worked out in the second movement, a large Scherzo. The Introduction concludes with an unusually placed violin cadenza (itself a rare feature in a string quartet, the idea lifted from Elliott Carter's First Quartet) of which the opening is to reappear halfway through the Finale. The Scherzo (which follows attacca) does not have at its centre a discretely characterized Trio: a figure in double-stops like a distant fanfare supplies the necessary contrast of a second idea. The Slow Movement has a secondary idea first heard on the cello and marked appassionato: an agitato middle section recalls the opening of the work, but in a formulation which will be found closely to anticipate its reappearance in the Finale. The Finale is planned on a broad scale. Only after a fully worked exposition of both primary and secondary material does the opening of the whole work return, now in a greatly extended form. Then, at bar 140, the tune of the violin cadenza is first harmonized in fanfare style on the upper instruments, then presented as a chorale on the lower ones, with a rushing semiquaver accompaniment above. This climatic activity mounts to the very end. The work is dedicated to the Chilingirian Quartet, old friends over many years. Score available separately: SOS04044.
SKU: M7.DOHR-17661
ISBN 9790202036617.
Das hier als Erstdruck vorgelegte Scherzo mit dem Titel Il fiume (Der Fluss) von 1870 ist Mabellinis einziges Werk für Streichquartett. Die heitere Fuge ist als Albumblatt für einen mit dem Komponisten befreundeten Geiger und Kammermusiker entstanden. Die Komposition, die einen fließenden, strömenden Fluss darzustellen vorgibt, ist ein kunstvoll gearbeitetes kontrapunktisches Meisterwerk, das auf kleinem Raum alle Techniken der Fugenkomposition durchexerziert und diese mittels eines einprägsamen, initial akzentuierten Themas auch beim bloßen Höreindruck deutlich erkennbar macht. Das Resultat ist mehr als eine akademische Fuge: nämlich ein echter und selbständig funktionierender für die konventionelle Besetzung erarbeiteter Quartettsatz mit großer kontrapunktischer, instrumentatorischer, formaler und programmatischer Qualität - eine heitere Komposition, die ihren Platz im Konzertrepertoire der Streichquartette, als Kabinettstück und/oder als Encore, verdient. (Guido Johannes Joerg).
SKU: HL.14021093
ISBN 9780711989511.
This work was first performed at the 1989 Fishguard Festival with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council. The work has roughly the overall shape of a substantial slow movement, followed by a double scherzo, interlude, another scherzo, and a fast finale.
SKU: PR.114410380
UPC: 680160015160. 9.5 x 13 inches.
My second String Quartet was written twenty years after the first, Opus 4 from 1978. The First Quartet is an obsessively contrapuntal work in one movement, which was no doubt influenced by my studies with David Diamond. I had always intended to return to the medium once I left the astringency of my earlier style, but it was only when the National Federation of Music Clubs commissioned a major chamber work, with unspecified instrumentation, to celebrate their 100th Anniversary that I was enabled to do so. The Second Quartet is in four movements: Moderato, Allegro isterico, an Andante theme with 11 variations, and the closing Allegro, which then returns to the tempo of the first movement. An audience member at the premiere told me that she heard echoes of recent tragic events such as the Oklahoma bombing in this work. While I had no such programmatic intent while writing the quartet, it was not an entirely incorrect assessment of the work's intended emotional impact. The quartet is pervaded by a sense of seriousness, even mournfulness. The second movement's scherzo is an aggressively animated piece of musical machinery. The third movement's Variations unfold into a greater variety of moods than the others - but the moments of lyricism are countered by aggressive or ironic outbursts. The final movement's attempt at triumph quickly subsides into a return of the first movement, before being transformed onto a sense of resignation and acceptance as the chromaticism of the opening theme is transformed into a pure and diatonic C-Major. The work received its world premiere by the Shanghai Quartet at the 100th Anniversary Congress of the National Federation of Music Clubs at the Congress Hotel in Chicago on August 19th 1998.My second String Quartet was written twenty years after the first, Opus 4 from 1978. The First Quartet is an obsessively contrapuntal work in one movement, which was no doubt influenced by my studies with David Diamond. I had always intended to return to the medium once I left the astringency of my earlier style, but it was only when the National Federation of Music Clubs commissioned a major chamber work, with unspecified instrumentation, to celebrate their 100th Anniversary that I was enabled to do so.The Second Quartet is in four movements: Moderato, Allegro isterico, an Andante theme with 11 variations, and the closing Allegro, which then returns to the tempo of the first movement.An audience member at the premiere told me that she heard echoes of recent tragic events such as the Oklahoma bombing in this work. While I had no such programmatic intent while writing the quartet, it was not an entirely incorrect assessment of the work’s intended emotional impact. The quartet is pervaded by a sense of seriousness, even mournfulness. The second movement’s scherzo is an aggressively animated piece of musical machinery. The third movement’s Variations unfold into a greater variety of moods than the others – but the moments of lyricism are countered by aggressive or ironic outbursts. The final movement’s attempt at triumph quickly subsides into a return of the first movement, before being transformed onto a sense of resignation and acceptance as the chromaticism of the opening theme is transformed into a pure and diatonic C-Major.The work received its world premiere by the Shanghai Quartet at the 100th Anniversary Congress of the National Federation of Music Clubs at the Congress Hotel in Chicago on August 19th 1998.
