Musica classica per quartetto d'archi

Contains: Op. 18, Nos. 1-6.

Immerse yourself in the captivating sound world of Spain with Joaquín Turina's “La Oración del Torero”. This chamber music masterpiece incomparably depicts the intimate devotion of a bullfighter in th...

String Quartet No. 1 was inspired by The Lindsays, who gave its first British performances and helped in the preparation of this edition. The work was commissioned by WUNC-FM, with funds from the Nort...

String Quartet No. 2, (Musée Mécanique), was commissioned by The Ciompi Quartet for their series at Duke University, with funds from Meet the Composer. The first performances were given on April 25 an...

Rebecca Clarke worked in the string quartet medium over virtually the whole of her long life, either as a performer, a composer, or a teacher. The two movements published here are Clarke's only known...

Jyrki Linjama's second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn B...

According to Jouni Kaipainen, the fourth string quartet (2006) is one of key works of Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) and holds a place as a landmark in Finnish quartet literature. Of the composer's five stri...

Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) composed his fifth string quartet, lasting about 20 minutes, in February-March 2018. He was inspired to write it by a visit to the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam the prev...

Juha T. Koskinen (b. 1972) tells about his String quartet no. 2: "Second string quartet (2014) is connected to great changes in my personal life. A few months after the score was finished, I became a...

Juha T. Koskinen's (b. 1972) responsiveness to timbre and particular inetrest to take into account the musical dramaturgy as a parameter in the duration of the movements are important in the String qu...

Im Vergleich zu von Flotow's umfangreichem Opernoevre ist die Anzahl der Kammermusikwerke sehr gering. Außer einer Violin- sonate, einem Klaviertrio und einzelnen gemeinsam mit Jacques Offenbach verfa...

Von den insgesamt sechs Streichquartetten entstand das erste im Jahr 1814, ebenso wie der hier erstmals veröffentlichte Quartettsatz in G-Dur. Sein Freund, der bedeutende Geiger und Komponist PIERRE M...