Bandoneonist and composer Dino Saluzzi has the long shadow of Astor Piazzolla to contend with, and on Kultrum, he extends his countryman's chamber-music explorations with the Munich-based Rosamunde String Quartet. Saluzzi plays with the quartet as his orchestra, keeping a parallel track for the bandoneon to play rhythmically against the longer violin and cello tones and then reverse roles, himself playing magnificent sheets as the strings jut out. But even "Salón de tango" sounds off to the left of anything recognizably tango, with puzzle pieces laying about that create the dance energy only when taken together. It's hard to get out from under Piazzolla's shadow with a bandoneon in hand, and while Saluzzi is certainly not trying to skirt influences, he moves quickly into a territory... Less

INTRODUCING ONE OF THE LARGEST OF OUR COLLECTION TO ADD TO YOUR LIBRARY. Set in a Jewel Case Abel, Carl Friedrich 6 String Quartets, Op.8 - Quartets: Parts Aimon, Pamphile Léopold François 3 String Quartets, Op.45 - Viola & Violoncello Parts 3 String Quartets, Op.45 - Violin 1 & 2 Parts Alkan, Charles-Valentin Souvenirs de Musique de Chambre - 3. Haydn: Menuet from String Quartet, Op.76 No.2 'Les Quintes' Souvenirs de Musique de Chambre - 5. Beethoven: Cavatina String Quartet No.13, Op.130 Souvenirs de Musique de Chambre - 4. Mozart: Andante from String Quartet No.8, K.464 Souvenirs des concerts du Conservatoire (Vol. 2) - 3. Haydn: "Finale" from String Quartet in D Maj. (No.38) Op.64 No.5 Transcriptions - Works of Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D (No.38) Op.64 No.5: Finale Arriaga... Less

Features:Level 5. Arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Douglas Stroud. Features solo cello. Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (parts in A and Bb,) 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, solo cello, strings. Table of Contents: Publisher: Masters Composer: Alexander Borodin Catalog Number: A0126 Pages:  

If Shostakovich was hip, if Shostakovich was cool, if Shostakovich was edgy, then this set of his string quartets by England's Brodsky Quartet would be by far the best set of the works ever recorded. If his First Quartet was wry, if his Fourth Quartet was

   &n bsp  &nbs p  Product DetailsOriginal Title:Schubert: String QuartetsCondition : NEWFormat: CDArtist: Franz SchbertLanguage: EnglishGenre: ClassicalTrack Listing: "1. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major D87: I. Allegro moderato2. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major D87: II. Scherzo (Prestissimo)3. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major D87: III. Adagio4. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major D87: IV. Allegro5. Quartettsatz in C minor D7036. String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde': I. Allegro ma non troppo7. String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde': II. Andante8. String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde': III. Menuetto (Allegretto) & Trio9. String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde': IV. Allegro moderato"Your browser does... Less

The First Quartet is a highly episodic, rather verbose work, clearly of (compositionally) youthful (not to say irrational) exuberance, which has at least one foot still firmly rooted in the 19th Century. Nevertheless, this Quartet provides the template for much of AS’s later musical concerns and solutions. In the First Quartet one already finds the importance of the minor second and perfect 5th, just as in Symphony I (perhaps, for his first major orchestral work, he purposely went back to an interval language with which he felt most comfortable). The overall structure of the First Quartet is also very similar to his other 4 movement works (Symphonies I and II, and the Sonata for Violin and Piano), as if this Quartet was the model. Schnabel wrote two major, massive unaccompanied string... Less

INTRODUCING ONE OF THE LARGEST OF OUR COLLECTION TO ADD TO YOUR LIBRARY. Set in a Jewel Case Contents: Abbiate, Louis: ? Cello Sonata - piano score, cello part Abel, Carl Friedrich: ? 6 Sonatas for 2 Flutes (or Violins) and Violoncello, Op.3 - Trios: Parts ? 6 String Quartets, Op.8 - Quartets: Parts ? Quartet in D major for Flute and Strings, WK 226 - Quartet: Parts ? Quartet in F major for Flute and Strings, WK 225 - Quartet: Parts ? Sonata I in B-flat Major - Allegro Moderato - Cello ? Sonata I in B-flat Major - Tempo di Minuetto - Cello ? Sonata I in B-flat Major - Tempo di Minuetto - Harpsichord ? Sonata I in B-flat Major - Tempo di Minuetto - Violin/Flute ? Sonata I in B-flat Major - Allegro Moderato - Harpsichord ? Sonata I in B-flat Major - Allegro Moderato -... Less

The year 2010 marked a century since the London String Quartet, known affectionately as the LSQ, gave its first concerts. Britain's leading chamber ensemble for two decades, it was equally well known in America, where it competed on equal terms with the Flonzaley Quartet: in 1925 leading American critic Olin Downes hailed the finest quartet playing that has been heard this Winter in New York . The LSQ gave many premières, made myriad records and at different times included Albert Sammons and William Primrose. That almost no trace of the group remained in the catalogues in its centenary year was sad but easily explicable. Much of its recorded output was produced by the acoustic process; and often the music was abridged because the Columbia Graphophone Company was not fully committed to... Less

Modern composers as diverse as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players-and of listeners in the concert hall and at home. Yet, until now, no book has addressed the language of these remarkable works, their interactions with the masterpieces of Beethoven and others, and their new approaches to musical expression. Intimate Voices, organized in rough chronological order, offers the observations and intuitions of twenty leading authorities on quartets by twenty-one composers from eleven countries. Its two volumes- available separately or together- comprise an indispensable guide to amateur and professional... Less

Music styles four centuries apart collide in this creative “baroque meets techno” treatment of one of Lady Gaga's biggest hits. Inspired by the YouTube mega-hit, this fugue-style movement is certain to be the audience pleaser of the year.Based on “Bad Romance”Series: Pops For String QuartetString QuartetArranger: Giovanni DettoriArranger: Larry MooreInventory #HL 04491115UPC: 884088612573Width : 9.0"Length: 12.0"

Features:Level 4. Arranged by Douglas Stroud. Table of Contents: Publisher: Masters Composer: Antonin Dvorak Catalog Number: M8038 Pages:  

Ben Johnston’s (b. 1926) music has reached a wide and diverse audience, both at home and abroad, without compromising its high seriousness or its depth of philosophic purpose. His music shows the confluence of several traditions of music-making that have flourished within the United States. In the 1950s his output was characterized by the neoclassicism of his teacher Darius Milhaud. In the 1960s he explored serial techniques and, at the end of the decade, indeterminacy. From 1960 onward the overriding technical preoccupation of his music has been its use of just intonation, the tuning system of the music of ancient cultures as well as that of many living traditions worldwide. Johnston is a pioneer in the use of microtones and non-tempered tuning, rationalizing and going beyond Harry... Less

Having toured the world with its Beethoven Quartets cycle as the old millennium entered the new, the Takács Quartet now commits some of them to disc. This two-CD set from Decca includes the three Razumovsky quartets, Op. 59, of 1806, and the Harp Quartet, Op. 74, sometimes known as the Lobkowitz after its dedicatee, composed in 1809. Although the latter's presto yields the fastest version of the fate motif Beethoven ever wrote, it is possible to go too quickly, as the Takács does here, making triplets of the first notes, which are not written as such. The speed of the dazzling finale of the Razumovsky No. 3 is impressive, but just fails to grip as firmly as a slightly slower, more controlled performance might. On the other hand, the Thème Russe last movement of the Razumovsky No. 1 is a... Less

The year 2010 marked a century since the London String Quartet, known affectionately as the LSQ, gave its first concerts. Britain's leading chamber ensemble for two decades, it was equally well known in America, where it competed on equal terms with the Flonzaley Quartet: in 1925 leading American critic Olin Downes hailed the finest quartet playing that has been heard this Winter in New York . The LSQ gave many premières, made myriad records and at different times included Albert Sammons and William Primrose. That almost no trace of the group remained in the catalogues in its centenary year was sad but easily explicable. Much of its recorded output was produced by the acoustic process; and often the music was abridged because the Columbia Graphophone Company was not fully committed to... Less

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) The String Quartets Gewandhaus- Quartett Award Winning Recording of 10 CD's with 97 page booklet of notes String Quartet OP. 18 No. 1-6 String Quartet OP. 59 No. 1-3 String Quartet in E Flat Major OP. 74 ('Harp Quartet') String Quartet in F Minor OP. 95 String Quartets OP 127, 130, 131, 132, 135 Great Fugue in B Flat Major OP. 133 String Quartet in F Major after the piano sonata in E Major OP. 14 No. 1 Former members of the Gewandhaus- Quartet in conversation with Martin Hoffmeister (Including audio examples) Dear friends of the Gewandhaus- Quartett! We are both proud – and happy – to be able to present you with the first complete recording of Beethoven's string quartets – as preformed by the Gewandhaus- Quartett. On the tenth CD I would like to give... Less

Series: String Letter Publishing Publisher: String Letter Publishing Format: Softcover Arranger: Eric Gorfain Artist: Radiohead Orchestral in scope, but rock by instrumentation, Radiohead pushed the musical limits of rock music with its 1997 landmark album OK Computer. This arrangement of the album's epic track "Paranoid Android" will challenge any string quartet. Tricky rhythms and time-signature changes are just the tip of the iceberg for this complex piece of music. Polar opposite in tone to "Paranoid Android" is the Grammy-nominated song "House of Cards" (In Rainbows, 2007), an uncharacteristica lly relaxed Radiohead love ballad. Melodically deadpan, the crux of the song lies in the rhythmic groove created by the guitar figure faithfully played in this string quartet arrangement by... Less

[Reissue of Dutton Epoch CDLX 7114 & CDLX 7123.] Edmund Rubbras String Quartets span his career from 1933 to 1977. Possibly the Second is the best known, but as a group they make an unmissable pendant to the symphonies. Possibly the most important string quartet cycle by any British composer, the Dutton Epoch recordings by the Dante Quartet enjoyed a very positive critical reception when they first appeared, and have now been re-packaged as a bargain-priced 2-CD box set. Track listing: String Quartet No.2 in E flat, Op.73 (1951): i. Allegro moderato ii. Scherzo Polimetrico (Vivace assai) iii. Cavatina (Adagio tranquillo) iv. Allegro Lyric Movement for String Quartet & Piano, Op.24 (1929 rev. 1946 (Moderato assai - Grazioso - Allegro - Tempo primo) Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn 'O Quando... Less

A collection of 12 traditional carols for easy string quartet (Grade 2) from master arranger Bruce Healey. This group of delightful arrangements will become your most valuable resource of holiday music for years to come. Each carol is given a fresh, creat

The Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985, is heir to the great Czech musical tradition. The Quartet's outstanding reputation for the interpretation of its native Czech heritage and of the many classical, romantic, and modern masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire is widely acknowledged. They have developed an impressive international career, which includes visits to major festivals in Europe and the Far East. They visit the US and Japan regularly, and have led highly acclaimed tours of Australia and New Zealand. They are frequent visitors to the UK, and can often be heard on BBC Radio 3 as well as in concert at many venues throughout the country.

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String Quartet No.1 (White Man Sleeps) was written for the Kronos Quartet and first performed by them July 1986, London. The title 'White Man Sleeps' comes from a moment in nyanga panpipe music where the performers leave off playing their loud pipes for

The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra, Cantabile, Musica dolorosa and Voices, is concentrating increasingly on chamber music: his latest works are the Partita for cello and piano, the Fifth Strin

Features:A Practical Rhythm Reading Course. Designed for choirs, bands, orchestras and general music classes, 'The Rhythm Reader' promotes quick comprehension with solid rhythm reading resulting in only a few minutes of use each rehearsal. Assuming no prior music reading experience on the students' part, rhythm concepts are introduced logically and sequentially throughout more than 90 challenging exercises. Optional Accompaniment Trax promote high motivation and success for all students. These recordings feature a wide variety of styles and timbres from classical to reggae, string quartet to rock, making learning to sight-read FUN! Available: Teacher Edition, Student Edition, Reproducible Pak (includes reproducible rhythm patterns), and Accompaniment CD. For all ages. Table of Contents:... Less

This exciting set, encompassing all 17 string quartets by the extraordinary Braziliancomposer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), is a milestone collection of what mostscholars have called 'the most important contribution in this field by a Latin Americancomposer' . The beautifully boxed set is also the first time all of the quartets havebeen made available as an integral release. Performed by Cuarteto Latinoamericano, recognized world-wide as the preeminent ensemble focusing on Latin Americanmusic, the recordings have received universal critical acclaim as well as a GRAMMYnomination for 'Best Chamber Music Performance' and a Latin GRAMMY. It isonly fitting that this spectacular boxed set is being released in celebration of thecomposer's monumental musical achievements on the 50th... Less