Spartiti difficile per Ensemble d'archi

Seit längerem setzt sich Manfred Trojahn kompositorisch mit Texten auseinander, die 'das Scheitern des Künstlers aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven' reflektieren. Vor allem 'Le Ceneri di Gramsci' von...

Die zwei Bagatellen für Streichquartett zeugen von der absoluten kompositorischen Beherrschung des Materials. Ein ruhiger und ein Scherzando Satz hören sich an, als wären es zwei Teile eines Puzzles....

Drei ineinander übergehende Sätze, das Streichquartett als eine Art Schlaginstrument. Taktwechsel, schnell, Rhythmus, Gegenargument, Konsequenz, Verdichtung, Gestalt, Oszillationsglissandi, homophon,...

Drei ineinander übergehende Sätze, das Streichquartett als eine Art Schlaginstrument. Taktwechsel, schnell, Rhythmus, Gegenargument, Konsequenz, Verdichtung, Gestalt, Oszillationsglissandi, homophon,...

Zum Beethoven-Jahr sollten Komponisten ausgewählte Textstellen aus Beethovens Konversationsheften vertonen. York Höllers Text 'fokussierte sich am Ende auf den Satz ‚Das Rad läuft' - darin stecken die...

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize o...

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...

Duo (da Ossip Mandelstam) si riferisce a una breve poesia tratta dalla sua raccolta del 1910 *Kamen* (Pietra), che è alla base del mio brano: questa poesia non solo ne costituisce l'epigrafe, ma viene...

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...

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...

Turnage's fourth string quartet, Winter's Edge was premiered by the Piatti Quartet at the Klarafestival, Brussels. Co-commissioned by the Quartet, the Wigmore Hall and Flagey ASBL, they gave the UK pr...

Rest These Hands è un arrangiamento di tre movimenti di The Violin, una suite di sette brani per violini multitraccia. Il primo movimento, anch'esso intitolato Rest These Hands, è stato originariament...

String Quartet No. 1 ('Between the National and the Bristol') was commissioned by the Vienna Festival for the Arditti Quartet to perform in October 1985. '... a great deal of the music is in the high...

String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1990 commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and the Balanescu Quartet.'This second quartet is a more relaxed, easy-going piece than the first

Il mio terzo Quartetto per archi è composto da sei movimenti contrastanti. Alcune figure musicali ricorrono in tutto il lavoro, ma ci sono pochi temi in quanto tali. L'enfasi principale è sul contrast...

Foreign Tongues esplora un modo diverso di guardare alla configurazione standard del quartetto d'archi. Immaginato come un lavoro in cui il violoncello è contrapposto al resto degli strumentisti, il b...