Ensemble

This substantial mature work shows the superb mastery of one of Germany's foremost contemporary composers. Henze, renowned for his lush orchestral textures and sensuous sonorities, aims for similar mu...

Welcher Musiker kennt das Problem nicht: statt Haydn, Mozart oder Beethoven ist etwas 'Leichtes' gefragt. Zur Geburtstagsfeier oder zur Kaffeetafel im Freien, zum Festbankett oder zur Weihnachtsfeier...

Elgar scrisse il suo musical "billet doux" nel 1888 e lo dedicò alla sua fidanzata Caroline Alice Roberts. Fu eseguita per la prima volta nel 1889 e contribuì ad affermare la reputazione di Elgar come...

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was...

Although Paul Dessau's Second String Quartet is very closely related to twelve-note music, it cannot be said to owe its inspiration to the serial method in the strictest sense. René Leibowitz had intr...

Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a s...

In questo lavoro, il quartetto diventa un unico strumento composito. Questo strumento non può suonare singoli suoni, ma piuttosto gesti compositi, di cui l'impulso iniziale legato alla produzione di u...

The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting to...

Der Komponist verwendet unverändert das Fragment G-Dur für Streichtrio von Mozart (K.V. 562 e) und komponiert drei Sätze hinzu, von denen einer vor und zwei nach dem Fragment gespielt werden.

In his second string quartet the composer Harald Weiss counters our fast-moving time with a work on silence and concentration. Rubatos, fermatas and little caesuras are added to simple note values - l...

Streicherstimmensatz

Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad lib.) oder Streichorchester