String Quartet No. 4 Study Score

String Quartet No.1 (Inspired by Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata') (Urtext).'2 vn va vcStudy score

Tost Quartets-The chamber music world has been eagerly awaiting this all of Haydn's string quartets are finally available in Henle Urtext quality! This edition contains the String Quartets op. 54/55 sometimes also known as the 'First TostQuartets'. Contrary to what the opus numbers might suggest it is a cohesive cycle of six works. Mozart's influence is felt more deeply the forms are more diverse and the first Violin is every now and then required to do realacrobatics. In this volume in particular several treasures can be found that are not often played.

Some of Beethoven?s most enduring and unabashedly successful works stem from his so-called ?Middle Period? and in the genre of chamber music the quartets Op.74 and 95 together with the recently issued Op.59 quartets complete this period.Jonathan Del Mar?s scholarly critical edition of quartets Op.74 and 95 sets the record straight once and for all restoring Beethoven?s articulation dynamics and lengths of slurs as the composer originally intended.The interdependency of the sources and their readings are clearly laid out by Del Mar in his Critical Commentary which also contains facsimile pages pointing out ambiguities with previouseditions.- Bärenreiter quality Urtext.- Critical Commentary (Eng) with facsimiles.- Study score includes historical introduction (Ger/Eng) by Barry Cooper.- Parts BA9018.

Early String Quartets-The Weinzierl castle in Lower Austria which still stands today can be considered to be the birthplace of a chamber music genre which is firmly established in our present-day repertoire. The young Haydn was invited to spend sometime at this place by a wealthy musical friend and often met up with the steward at the castle the castle priest and the cellist Anton Albrechtsberger to make music. Although his first two works for '2 violins viola and bass'still have five movements their musical value establishes the success of the string quartet in its own right.Also available as part of a 12 part set including all Haydn's works for String Quartet Cat. No. HN9216