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First performance: Pro-Arte Quartet; Villa Aurelia, American Academy, Rome, Italy; 14 December 1936. Parts available: GS34173

Miniature Quartet No. 1 In A Minor. Parts only. Score also available for sale (NOV120187).

The set of parts for Stravinsky's rhythmic and intense Concertino. The piece was composed in 1920 and reflects the stacked chromatics and violent rhythms most famously manifest in The Rite Of Spring.

Work for String Quartet composed in 1956. Parts available: WH49169

Arrangements of three of Bolcom's famous piano rags: Poltergeist, Graceful Ghost, and Incineratorag.

Stringworks is a series of popular music for working string quartets. Light repertoire pieces and entertaining encores are all expertly arranged by Jack Long. Each folio contains individual parts, plu...

Exercises in 7 major keys covering slurred, legato, staccato and détaché bowings.

This reprint of the celebrated Novello edition features the six 'Haydn' Quartets, the 'Hoffmeister' Quartet, and three 'Prussian' Quartets. Based on corrected manuscripts published by the composer's w...

... the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact. The Bulletin (Kenneth Robins), 27 September 1969

It is an exceptionally impressive work, possibly a great or near-great one. Donald Mintz, The Musical Quarterly vol. 53, no. 4, 1967

... this snazzy piece (filled with folky references and odd percussion effects) takes the cake - a terrific, immediately entertaining and absorbing work. San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 8 J...

... one of his finest works... a composer thoroughly at ease with himself, working in a mode that has come to terms with his tradition and with his environment, and using it with assurance to create m...

... true quartet-music, admirably conceived for the medium. I found it a most vivid and compelling piece. The Sunday Times (Desmond Shawe-Taylor), 7 December 1975

The terse String Quartet No 9 is a major addition to the quartet repertory.San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 1 March 1980

... the quartet is a highly distinctive work, a welcome addition to Simpson's significant contribution to the British twentieth-century string quartet. Trevor Bray, Music and Letters Vol. 68, 3 April...

This is a Ninth' and no mistake. . .the most significant British string quartet of the century. . .'David J Brown, Tempo, March 1985