Pastoral Quartet

(American Quartet)-After a twelve-year interval Dvo ák once again turned his attention to the String Quartet in summer 1893. He had been musical director in New York since autumn 1892 and spent the summer in Spillville (Iowa) where agroup of Czech immigrants had settled thus making him feel at home. The beautiful natural surroundings led him to write this unconventional String Quartet in the tradition of Beethoven?s ?Pastoral? even down to the imitation ofbirdcalls. Since the first performances certain rhythmic and melodic characteristics have been traced back to the influences of the folk music of Native Americans and African Americans which led to the soon popular workbeing called the ?American Quartet?. For the first time since 1955 the Quartet is once again being published in an Urtext edition.

Ian Venables' The Song Of The Severn is a cycle of songs in celebration of Worcestershire scored for Baritone Voice String Quartet and Piano. “The Song of the Severn…clothes poems by Masefield Housman John Drinkwater and Philip Worner in sharply memorable music of bewitching lyricism idiomatic grace and rapt instinct…No lover of the early-20th-century English art song or pastoral tradition should fail to investigate this notable issue.” - Andrew Achenbach Gramophone “These five songs for voice with piano and string quartet accompaniment take the Severn Riverand its historical and natural associations as a common theme. They are absolutely stunning in their poignant beauty their profoundly noble and moving sense of tragedy and desolation that never turns sentimental or lachrymose and their perfect union of text and music to a level that rivals Schubert and Mahler.” - James A. Altena Fanfare Magazine

Choralsonate Ii. Par BORNEFELD HELMUT. movements: I. Concertino 'Es sungen drei Engel ein süßen Gesang, II. Pastorale 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen', III. Rondo 'Alle Welt springe und lobsinge'/ Répertoire / Quartette Pour Flûtes à Bec (Quartette à Cordes) e

Choralsonate Ii. Par BORNEFELD HELMUT. movements: I. Concertino 'Es sungen drei Engel ein süßen Gesang, II. Pastorale 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen', III. Rondo 'Alle Welt springe und lobsinge'/ Répertoire / Quartette Pour Flûtes à Bec (Quartette à Cordes) e

Choralsonate Ii. Par BORNEFELD HELMUT. movements: I. Concertino 'Es sungen drei Engel ein süßen Gesang, II. Pastorale 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen', III. Rondo 'Alle Welt springe und lobsinge'/ Répertoire / Quartette Pour Flûtes à Bec (Quartette à Cordes) e