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Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow's McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, \"My first string quartet, Visions of a November...

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...

Contusion ist ein prägnanter, ergreifend ausgewogener Schmerzensschrei in einem einzigen Satz von 20 Minuten Länge. Seine Struktur ist ein Widerhall der klassischen Form einer Sonate. Das Stück ist ch...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

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...

Il compositore spiega che, in psicologia, un'"idée fixe" è una convinzione o una preoccupazione ossessiva, spesso insensibile ai tentativi di correggerla o modificarla. Ma è anche un termine musicale,...

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Faksimile der Autographe in: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno; Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe; Biblioteka Jagielloñska, Kraków; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; L...

Composers Note: This Quartet takes its inspiration from Quaker sources and above all the 'Silent Worship' of Meetings. The music is retrained and simple and avoids violent rhetoric. Above all, it uses...