Chester Music

Easy String Quartets Book 2 is the second volume in this highly popular collection of classics. Each piece has been easily arranged for String Quartet by Watson Forbes, and is designed to give develop...

Easy String Quartets Book 3 is the third volume in this highly popular collection of classics. Each piece has been easily arranged for String Quartet by Watson Forbes, and is designed to give developi...

Easy String Quartets Book 3 is the third volume in this highly popular collection of classics. Each piece has been easily arranged for String Quartet by Watson Forbes, and is designed to give developi...

Easy String Quartets Book 3 is the third volume in this highly popular collection of classics. Each piece has been easily arranged for String Quartet by Watson Forbes, and is designed to give developi...

Parts for Moeran String Quartet In A Minor. A study score is available separately for sale.

This work was written in 1958. It was commissioned by the University of Glasgow under the terms of the McEwen Bequest.

Score edition of Hallgrimsson String Quartet No. 2. Parts are also available on sale: SOS15466

There are two primary ideas behind this composition, the first being to create and almost orchestral chamber music, the idea for this coming from a performance of the Große Fuge performed by the Ardit...

String Quartet No. 2 was commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh as a solo dance work: Miniatures. It was first performed by her with the Balanescu Quartet on 15 September 1988, London. Duration 22 minutes....

String Quartet No. 3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale. Qu...

Commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the Chilingirian String Quartet. Quoting Wood: In my Second and Third Quartets I attempted sectional, agglutinative forms: in my Fourth I return to the convent...

String Quartet No. 2 was commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh as a solo dance work: Miniatures. It was first performed by her with the Balanescu Quartet on 15 September 1988, London. Duration 22 minutes....

The six short movements of this quartet can be described as follows, but are not necessarily played in this order: 1) A fast, scherzo-like mechanism of terraced accelerandos, 2) Quiet heterophony - co...

String Quartet No. 2 Hunting: Gathering was commissioned by Doris and Myron Beigler and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the Kronos Quartet. It was first performed by them in December 19...

String Quartet No. 1 is dedicated to the memory of Thurston Dart. It was commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them on 23 September 1985, Warsaw. Duration 26 minutes. The score fo...

String Quartet No. 3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. A score is available on sale.. Quoting compo...

Quoting Mason: This work was conceived as a 'travelogue' in five parts played without break, although the boundaries between these five 'areas' are not always precisely definable. The first part, Pera...

The score is also available CH60985

Quoting Saxton: My Fantazia for String Quartet was complete in December 1993 in response to a commission from the London International String Quartet Competition for a test piece for the 1994 competit...

Score available separately: CH61008

String Quartet No. 4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, A...

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...

Set of Parts for Kevin Volans 'White Man Sleeps' for string quartet. (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello). Written for the Kronos Quartet in 1986. Duration 24 minutes. Score available: CH61123

String Quartet No. 4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher, A...

String Quartet No. 2 Hunting: Gathering was commissioned by Doris and Myron Beigler and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the Kronos Quartet. It was first performed by them in December 19...