SKU: OU.9780193386662
ISBN 9780193386662. 12 x 8 inches.
Finnissy's Third String Quartet is the composer's response to the natural world and man's place in it. The work incorporates birdsong, both transcribed and recorded, and the instruments gradually fade out at the end of the work, to leave only the sound of birds.
SKU: HL.49018488
ISBN 9790001151511. UPC: 884088668044. 9.25x12.0x0.333 inches.
The title of Thomas Larcher's third string quartet, Madhares, refers to the name of a deserted place on the island of Crete which inspired him to compose this work. Larcher developed the piece from repetitions of sounds generated by plucking the strings with a coin. The C major in the second movement Honey from Anopolis evokes the picture of an idealistic time long gone. The idyll is broken by rapid rhythmic movements marked 'sleepless'.