Chester Music

Judith Weir's Sundew for Violin and Cello. Score. ' The bog-based Sundew Plant isn't as pleasant as the name suggests. It produces beads of fluid, resembling dew, but in fact a sticky deposit in which...

Judith Weir's Night is a work for Violin and Cello. Commissioned by Enterprise Music Scotland, 'Night' was written for High Heels and Horse Hair - comprised of Alice Rickards (Violin) and Sonia Cromar...

Aure is a work for Violin and Cello by Kaija Saariaho. Originally composed for Violin and Viola, this version was created in 2015, and was originally an homage to Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday, insp...

Peter Gregson's The Day Before was composed in 2017 and arranged for String Quartet.

Commissioned by the Spektral Quartet, Carnegie Hall, and Washington Performing Arts and first performed in 2019. According to the composer Enigma was inspired by 'the notion of the 'in-between', juxta...

Commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet with financial support from Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, RVW Trust and Hope Scott Trust. First performed on 21st May 201...

Commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet with financial support from Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, RVW Trust and Hope Scott Trust. First performed on 21st May 201...

A short work for Violin and Viola commissioned as a birthday present for Lady Susan Hussey and first performed at a Musical Evening in Kennington, London on Sunday 15th September 2019 by Eloisa-Fleur...

Bryce Dessner's Impermanence is commissioned by the Australian String Quartet and Sydney Dance Company. This commission has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for...

This contemplative work for string quartet was written by composing three expansive harmonic fields made up of tempo canons with five, six, and seven independent layers. The music is presented as a pe...

Il Quartetto per archi n. 2 di Helen Grime è stato commissionato dalla Wigmore Hall, con il generoso sostegno di Nicholas e Judith Goodison e del Radcliffe Trust, e dal Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...

Il Quartetto per archi n. 2 di Helen Grime è stato commissionato dalla Wigmore Hall, con il generoso sostegno di Nicholas e Judith Goodison e del Radcliffe Trust, e dal Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival...

A short string trio commissioned by City of London Sinfonia in 2021.

Rituals, quartetto d'archi di Anna Thorvaldsdottir, è stato presentato in prima mondiale a Copenhagen nel 2023 dal Danish String Quartet. È stato commissionato dal Danish String Quartet con il sostegn...

West Coast Sky Forever per quartetto d'archi di Ellen Reid è stato commissionato dal progetto Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK per Kronos Quartet. La registrazione del quartetto è contenuta nell'ultimo album di E...

Poco dopo aver completato il mio Secondo Quartetto, mi sono reso conto che tutte le sue caratteristiche formali mi ricordavano momenti dei quartetti di Beethoven. Un'apertura tagliente e colloquiale s...

Bryce Dessner’s Impermanence is an hour-long piece for dance scored for string quartet, commissioned by the Australian String Quartet and Sydney Dance Company. It features the song Another World by An...

Erbsenrondo o "Rondo dei piselli" è un quartetto d'archi di 5 minuti scritto per il 25° anniversario dell'Istituto Gregor Mendel di Vienna, per celebrare le scoperte di Mendel e la ricerca contemporan...

Never and Always Becoming è un quartetto per archi di 28 minuti. In quest'opera, il suo nono quartetto d'archi, il compositore combina la costante ascesa con l'ideale di un canone in perpetua accelera...

Philip Glass' String Quartet No. 1 (1966)

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras, carefully structured in two levels. The 'Easy' level does not normally exceed Grade 2...

Nymphea Reflection is a work by renowned composer Kaija Saariaho, arranged for String Orchestra. Commissioned by the Schleswig Holstein Festival, it was first performed on the 16th of August 2001 in E...