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This is a straightforward; yet beautiful arrangement of the famous tune. It requires sensitive musicianship and good technique; but is such a fine piece; it practically plays itself.

Set of Performance Scores An outgrowth of Wernick's Sonata for Two (for two cellos), composed for Joel Krosnick and his daughter Gwen, Sonatina in the Shape of a Pearl is a return to more formal neo-b...

Hailstork's string trio imagines the exotic tribal dances that Eslanda 'Essie' Cardozo Goode Robeson (Paul Robeson's wife) might have encountered in her travels around the globe. Four rhythmic movemen...

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: 'When one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imita...

TACHUN (SPRING OUTING) was composed in 2021 for The Joy Project, to commission uplifting works for performance at free outdoor concerts in the San Francisco Bay region. The work's title comes from the...

This beautiful slow movement takes full advantage of the string quartet’s richly expressive potential. LORRAINE is a plaintive aria for violin with string trio accompaniment, balanced with contrasting...

Balancing caprice with studied craft, Samuel Adler's THREESOME VENTURES is a compact but substantive four-movement work for string trio. Rich in both thoughtful, playful dialogue and virtuosic drive,...

“Spring Vitality,” the first movement of Chen Yi's SONG OF SPRING for string quartet, embeds rhythmic speech in quietly churning fragments of polyphony to suggest the sounds of falling rain, sure to c...

Un maestro moderno contempla il passato e guarda al futuro nel QUARTETTO PER STRINGHE N. 6 di Lowell Liebermann. Composto per il rinomato Dover Quartet, il quartetto di Liebermann è estremamente espre...

Felder weds a string quartet with pre-recorded track for a contemplative; contemporary performance piece. Netivot was commissioned by New Music USA; made possible by annual program support and/or endo...

A commission by Harris Miller and Deborah Kahn, both active figures in the politics and arts of Northern Virginia and Washington, D. C. , led to Leshnoff's 3rd String Quartet. The 20 minute work build...

Hailed by the Washington Post as a 'masterpiece,' this stunningly dramatic string quartet explodes in driving, kinetic rhythms and retreats to a soulful and pure adagio. It has been recorded on the MS...

Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still in...

On the 75th anniversary of PWM Edition, we are delighted to recall that very first publication. Its present edition was prepared by the Meccore string Quartet.   The Second String Quartet is one of th...

The Phantasy, written when the composer was twenty for the Cobbett prize at the Royal College of Music. The piece demonstrates a confidence and flair, as well as an emerging sense of the distinctive A...

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