Musica classica per quartetto d'archi

Il 1936 fu l'anno creativo più fecondo per Hans Winterberg, prima della catastrofe che colpì la Cecoslovacchia con l'annessione dei territori dei Sudeti nel 1938 e del "resto della Cecoslovacchia" nel...

Il 2° Quartetto per archi di Hans Winterberg del 1942 è una delle poche opere che egli riuscì a comporre in condizioni di vita inimmaginabili durante il periodo del terrore nazista in Cecoslovacchia....

Ognuno dei quattro quartetti per archi del compositore boemo Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) ha una storia particolare. Il primo, composto in tempi felici a Praga nel 1936, dovette attendere fino al 2024...

I quattro quartetti per archi di Hans Winterberg sono stati composti nell'arco di quattro decenni, tra il 1936 e il 1961, e riflettono le quattro fasi della sua movimentata biografia. Il primo fu comp...

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to Eamonn Quinn, Artistic Director of Louth Contemporary Music Society in Ireland, for his deep empathy, appreciation and great...

Written for the Kronos String Quartet, this piece contains Irish accents and some simple ideas that both convey the composer's enthusiasm for Ireland, the historical fate of which reminds him of his n...

String Quartet No. 1 is one of the most successful and most frequently performed works by Silvestrov. It can be described as a work standing on a threshold between avant-garde and post-avant-garde and...

The edition contains two string quartet miniatures which are 43 years apart. Quartetto piccolo (1961) is Valentin Silvestrov's first twelve-note composition which consists of three little movements me...

Mansurjan's String Quartet No. 1 (1983-84) takes us 'on the long road of simplicity, on a wonderful journey during which the question whether this music is new or old can be answered very soon: It is...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

Three progressive collections of contemporary string quartet repertoire from leading composers to encourage and facilitate the development of ensemble playing. Compiled and edited by Liz Partridge, ea...

Three progressive collections of contemporary string quartet repertoire from leading composers to encourage and facilitate the development of ensemble playing. Compiled and edited by Liz Partridge, ea...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...