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The first movement is characterized by the interplay between a delicate, almost fragile theme and its extremely harsh development. The second is melodic and the third tonally repetitive. The finale al...

Yun's third string quartet was created shortly after he moved to Europe and was considered by him to be his first valid quartet. Up until recently, only a pocket score of the important early work was...

String Quartet No. I

In this piece, commissioned by the WDR and premiered by the Quatuor Diotima in Witten in 2016, Johannes Boris Borowski shows that, to him, the string quartet genre is a rewarding field of experimentat...

Olga Neuwirths Streichquartett, entstanden 2009, ist eine Hommage an den US-amerikanischen Künstler Henry Darger und dessen erst posthum entdecktes, reich illustriertes gleichnamiges Buchmanuskript. D...

Im Auftrag des SWR für die Reihe attacca - geistesgegenwart musik' geschrieben und 2017 vom Minguet Quartett in Stuttgart uraufgeführt, ist dieses Werk bereits der zweite Beitrag des Komponisten zur K...

The title is a quote from the essay 'The Rose of Paracelsus' by Jorge Luis Borges. This parable is about the secret of the creation of a miracle, the disappearance and reappearance of the rose as well...

4 STRINGS - Drei im Schwierigkeitsgrad ansteigende Sammlungen mit zeitgenössischem Repertoire für Streichquartett von führenden Komponisten die anregen, das Ensemblespiel zu entdecken und weiterzuentw...

Pops for String Quartet : una collana per tutti i violinisti desiderosi di suonare qualcosa di diverso dal repertorio classico. Bohemian Rhapsody è una canzone che esce da tutti gli schemi convenziona...

This short string quartet is the third that Casken has written for the renowned Lindsays. It is an ideal introduction to the contemporary string quartet, well within the capabilities of student quarte...

Duddell's short string quartet made up of four mere bagatelles is a treat for both players and audiences. First performed by the Psophos Quartet at the 2007 Presteigne Festival and recently transcribe...

Richard Ayres' Three Small Pieces for String Quartet each have distinct characters that illustrate the composer's vivid imagination and skill for combining energetic, touching and sometimes wild music...

This extremely virtuoso string quartet setting uses its three main sections to describe a way from the imaginative search of melodies and sounds via rhythmic ecstasy to an initially third-heavy epilog...

This string quartet by a grand master of the German avant-garde combines a decidedly traditional four-movement structure with experimental situations in the concert hall. In various sections the perfo...

The title of Thomas Larcher's third string quartet, Madhares, refers to the name of a deserted place on the island of Crete which inspired him to compose this work. Larcher developed the piece from re...

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of do...

While Western polyphonic music achieved its pinnacle in the fugue, rhythmic polyphony of great complexity evolved in Cuba. It is particularly the 'batá' (drumming music originating in the Afro-Cuban '...

This work is among the subtropical plants series of composer Xiaogang Ye's wroks, in which include Enchanted Bamboo, Hibiscus, Datura, December Chrysanthemum, Scent of Green Mango,etc. These works sho...

Canticle (String Quartet No. 6) was commissioned by the Chiara String Quartet. It consists of seven movements, highly contrasting in character, with movements I and VII serving as similar bookends to...

Gustav Jenner (1865-1920), a student of Brahms', wrote only three string quartets. The Third String Quartet in F major was completed in 1911 and premiered by the Rebner Quartet. Common to all Jenner's...