SKU: HL.48187563
UPC: 888680905965. 9.0x12.0x0.106 inches. French.
Darius Milhaud: Quatuor a Cordes No.14, Op.291 (Quartet-Strings).
SKU: BT.ALHE31277
French.
Darius Milhaud: Quatuor Cordes No.14, Op.291 (Quartet-Strings).
SKU: HL.48187564
UPC: 888680906719. 9.0x12.0x0.104 inches. French.
Quartets No.14 and No.15 may be performed separately or as an Octet.
SKU: BT.ALHE31278
SKU: HL.48187562
UPC: 888680839710. 6.5x8.5x0.582 inches. French.
SKU: BT.ALHE31276
Quartets No.14 and No.15 may be performed separately or as an Octet
SKU: HL.50572744
SKU: HL.367873
ISBN 9781705140291. UPC: 840126966657. 9.0x12.0x0.655 inches.
Commissioned by Caramoor Music Festival in New York and premiered July 14, 2017 by the Argus Quartet, this work is in no small part a response to this quartet's sense of adventure and expressive emotional range. Inspired by two end-of-civilization novels the composer was reading prior to composing the work, the quartet unfolds in a single movement, loosely based on plot lines in both novels. One of the novels includes a Traveling Symphony, an assortment of musicians and actors who travel the countryside for decades playing symphonies, jazz and orchestral arrangements of popular music alongside performances of Shakespeare plays, reminiscent of medieval troupes traveling the countryside in plague-ridden times. The work is written so that the quartet embodies the Traveling Symphony, not only playing music but also singing and 'stage whispering' fragments of King Lear and other text across the collection of nine scenes.
SKU: PR.11441345S
UPC: 680160608829. 8.5 x 11 inches.
BACH-SHARDS was commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet as part of their Art of the Fugue companion-piece project. Ran deliberately stays within the realm of Bach-like vocabulary, altering syntax in ways that add up to something slightly different from the anticipated sum of the parts. The work builds up to a climax that makes the entry point into Bach’s Contrapunctus X seem thoroughly natural.While composing Bach-Shards I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal. First, though the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I opted not to stray outside the realm of Bach-like materials and harmonic language. Instead, it was my hope to alter their relationships and context in ways that add up to a something that’s slightly different than the anticipated sum of the parts. A mildly deconstructed Bach, if you will. The other important challenge I set for myself was building up the latter, toccata-like portion of Bach-Shards in a way that would make the entry point of the fugue which it precedes, Contrapunctus X, seem thoroughly natural. It was my intent to have the first fugal entrance feel like a huge and much welcome release of the energy created by my Prelude’s penultimate stretch, with its bravura figurations elaborating on an insistent dominant pedal point.
SKU: HL.14042950
ISBN 9788759829141.
Composed 1974.
SKU: BT.BB3632
ISBN 9783793143291.